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- Type of diabetes
- I reversed my Type 2
- Treatment type
- Diet only
This kind of hits the nail on the head, and I guess describes the way that many of us feel, and also gets to why it's so difficult to persuade anyone without a diagnosis that they may want to pay attention to insulin - surely I'm ok?I do wonder if I actually have insulin resistance though or just a deficit of insulin. God knows why I'd have become resistant to it, none of the explanations really make sense for me.
And, one level underneath that is the problem that diabetes focuses on the blood glucose - all the diagnostic measurements, all the guidelines, all the advice, all the drugs - it's all about controlling blood glucose..
To the point that as a newly diagnosed patient (at least for me) it's terribly difficult even to understand the difference between T1 and T2 -
When you see them as issues with hormone balance, they are clearly opposites: T1 too little insulin and T2, too much.
Then - why would I be resistant to it?
Well, that becomes a little easier to understand - why does anyone become resistant to anything - by having too much of it.
Coffee, alcohol, stress, People crying Wolf, exercise, heroin, anything that has an effect on you, that effect will reduce if you trigger the effect too often.
It's ridiculously more complicated at the cellular and organ levels, but at the person level - "too much of a good thing" is all you really need to know.
Everybody is insulin resistant for a period, for example - it's called puberty, but you literally cannot grow enough without most of your body becoming resistant to the demands of insulin during the period where the bits of your body that need to grow, do...