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- Type of diabetes
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- Diet only
Everyone seems to have a different view on what constitutes 'reversal', but really, how can a claim be valid if there are diabetic drugs, yoyo dieting, and it is only for a year or two? We simply don't have verifiable data for longer, and the followups just aren't there in sufficient numbers. Yet.
I mean, heck, I have a non-D HbA1c, stable weight, I've lost 25% of body weight, and I'm not on D drugs. I can even eat carbs on occasion with minimal blood glucose impact. But I would cackle like a hyena on laughing gas at the suggestion my D is reversed, because it simply isn't. It is well controlled.
Hopefully when we start to get stats through for people who have been off all D meds, with nicely stable weight and non D HbA1cs for 5 and 10 years, then I will start to give the idea more credence. And when we get people dying of a happy old age with non-diabetic related conditions, after 30 or 40 years of steady 'reversal' then I will accept that it is possible.
I mean, heck, I have a non-D HbA1c, stable weight, I've lost 25% of body weight, and I'm not on D drugs. I can even eat carbs on occasion with minimal blood glucose impact. But I would cackle like a hyena on laughing gas at the suggestion my D is reversed, because it simply isn't. It is well controlled.
Hopefully when we start to get stats through for people who have been off all D meds, with nicely stable weight and non D HbA1cs for 5 and 10 years, then I will start to give the idea more credence. And when we get people dying of a happy old age with non-diabetic related conditions, after 30 or 40 years of steady 'reversal' then I will accept that it is possible.