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The reality of T2DM. A personal perspective

Do you know if visceral fat is still affected after the person stops smoking?
 
Do you know if visceral fat is still affected after the person stops smoking?
When you lose weight, visceral fat is the first to go,not the nice non-dangerous fat. If you stop smoking I think it would help, and you will probably have less visceral fat.
 
I have very little knowledge of how the body stores fat and the resultant insulin activity, but think this is a very interesting topic. Thanks for the theory, and for the videos - I'll be watching them over the next few days and will share with my partner. I'm t1 and his pancreas is just bloody perfect (I've tested it lol), but we both like to theorise about t1 and t2...might be back in a weeks time with another post x x
 


A slight modification to my theory:
It makes more sense that the human body when in storage mode and wanting to keep the stored fat is to raise its insulin levels by inducing IR first in the muscles cells. This should be the simplest way to inviting the pancreas to raise its production of insulin.
The body is known to know how to do this in two examples. One when in ketosis, the body does what is called physiological IR to save the glucose for the brain, and the other case when in fight or flight mode when again IR is increased in response to adrenaline secretion.
 
When you lose weight, visceral fat is the first to go,not the nice non-dangerous fat. If you stop smoking I think it would help, and you will probably have less visceral fat.

While it is true that visceral fat is the first to go in non diabetic people, it is actually the opposite in highly insulin resistant people where visceral fat becomes so stubborn it may never go without extreme methods.
 
While it is true that visceral fat is the first to go in non diabetic people, it is actually the opposite in highly insulin resistant people where visceral fat becomes so stubborn it may never go without extreme methods.

Do you have a reference to that? I have always understood as you loose weight, the visceral fat goes away first. That is for instance why bariatric surgery patients get cured, even though they have lots of excess weight left. If they lose 4 kg of visceral fat, it is gonna do miracles for their health, than it does not matter that they have lots of subcataneous fat left.
 


It is not understood yet why bariatric surgery patients cure from T2DM even before weight is lost. It is thought that some signalling pathway gets interrupted by the procedure.
If you surf the net for visceral fat either the first to go" or the last to go. You will find equal number of posts claiming both. And in fact both are true. The fact that it is the last to go in IR patients stands for the reason why it is so difficult to combat.
 
That is for instance why bariatric surgery patients get cured

I was advised to have Bariatric Surgery (Gastric Band) but declined the opportunity because after attending several support group meetings I realised it was easier to reduce calories more than I had done already. I also discovered that they were liquidising chocolate and ice cream to get their calorie intake up to 1200 calories per day. As a diabetic I certainly don't do ice cream or chocolate. I have met the dietitian from the hospital's Bariatric team since then and pleased to say that they don't do that any more.

The other thing is that I think it's only those who have bypass surgery that seem to be cured of type II and they're still not 100% sure as to why or how it works. That's not to say they haven't a clue, just that they're not 100% sure.
 
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