A daily pill that, taken for the rest of your life, would have the same effect, with no side effects at all?
We know that Type 2 can be controlled with diet and drugs or insulin. But we know that even with good BG levels, we still have the disease and the high BG levels would come back if we stopped the "treatment."
So what would count as a "cure"? It would have to eliminate a chronic and progressive illness. A onetime course of drugs that reverses insulin resistance forever? A daily pill that, taken for the rest of your life, would have the same effect, with no side effects at all? Allowing a return to a diet containing "normal" amounts of carbohydrates?
For more advanced cases, the "cure" would also have to fix a worn-out pancreas that is tuckered out from producing excess insulin for years....
I have normal blood glucose levels and am not on any meds. I consider that cured.
But...if you had always naturally eaten a low carb diet and never had any issues, never been tested, could you still be diabetic and not know it?
I’d say no as you’ve never worked your pancreas hard, but it’s pure speculation!But...if you had always naturally eaten a low carb diet and never had any issues, never been tested, could you still be diabetic and not know it?
But...if you had always naturally eaten a low carb diet and never had any issues, never been tested, could you still be diabetic and not know it?
No. I eat the way I do for overall health.But are you still treating it with diet?
I tend to agree with your view, quite logical.Interesting. Considering the Inuit, Masai and Saami tribes who were exposed to the western diet developed the condition and it being unheard of previously in their cultures. This is one of the reasons why I find the genetic predisposition theory holds water.
Interesting. Considering the Inuit, Masai and Saami tribes who were exposed to the western diet developed the condition and it being unheard of previously in their cultures. This is one of the reasons why I find the genetic predisposition theory holds water.
Welcome back, it's good to see you. Your absence was noted. Hope you had a grand Christmas and may I wish you continued good health for 2018.
PS nice to see you back @Grateful
I think that I was diabetic for a long time, but as I was for long periods eating low carb foods I was never detected - when I went on the diabetes education sessions I was given urine test sticks to use, and never got anything but the smallest of alterations in colour (and I have acute colour vision) on two occasions in over a month of testing.But...if you had always naturally eaten a low carb diet and never had any issues, never been tested, could you still be diabetic and not know it?
Hi Guzzler,
Wouldn't a diatary change to suit a "genetic predisposition" with positive results be more of a "reversal" than a cure..?
(Sorry to throw this in the "mix.")
Welcome back @Grateful by the way!
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