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<blockquote data-quote="Art Of Flowers" data-source="post: 1494972" data-attributes="member: 375067"><p>Jason Fung does say in the video that type 2 diabetes is caused by excessive insulin in the system, so treating it with more insulin only makes matters worse. Too much carbohydrate causes insulin to deposit fat in the liver, which causes insulin resistance and then the pancreas goes overboard producing insulin to cope, but this is affected by fatty deposits in the pancreas which impairs beta cell function and you end up with high blood sugars.</p><p></p><p>The aggressive treatment of type 2 diabetes through drugs and insulin seems to make patients progressively more sick over time because it is treating the symptom (high blood sugar) rather than the cause (insulin resistance). A lot of these patients end up very obese because of insulin and their health and quality of life declines.</p><p></p><p>The cure for type 2 diabetes seems to be getting rid of all this excess visceral fat around the liver and pancreas and this requires ketosis through fasting. It seems quite easy to reverse type 2 diabetes to get blood sugars down to non-diabetic levels through a low carb diet, but if you want to take it further to get to full diabetes remission where you can tolerate carbs better then you need to consider intermittent fasting or a prolonged low calorie diet e.g. 800 calories/day for eight weeks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Art Of Flowers, post: 1494972, member: 375067"] Jason Fung does say in the video that type 2 diabetes is caused by excessive insulin in the system, so treating it with more insulin only makes matters worse. Too much carbohydrate causes insulin to deposit fat in the liver, which causes insulin resistance and then the pancreas goes overboard producing insulin to cope, but this is affected by fatty deposits in the pancreas which impairs beta cell function and you end up with high blood sugars. The aggressive treatment of type 2 diabetes through drugs and insulin seems to make patients progressively more sick over time because it is treating the symptom (high blood sugar) rather than the cause (insulin resistance). A lot of these patients end up very obese because of insulin and their health and quality of life declines. The cure for type 2 diabetes seems to be getting rid of all this excess visceral fat around the liver and pancreas and this requires ketosis through fasting. It seems quite easy to reverse type 2 diabetes to get blood sugars down to non-diabetic levels through a low carb diet, but if you want to take it further to get to full diabetes remission where you can tolerate carbs better then you need to consider intermittent fasting or a prolonged low calorie diet e.g. 800 calories/day for eight weeks. [/QUOTE]
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