Hello!
Generally, I do not find my GP to be sympathetic to variation from his Metformin, ACE inhibitor and Simvastatin programme suggestion, and certainly not open to discussion...
I did not like the suggested regime and declined. I have been following my own leads and am showing no signs of the 'inevitable' consequences : my blood pressure is back down to normal, I've lost 30lbs of fat, my retinas continue to be clear, my eyesight is good ( using bi-focals, but no change in 11 years ) and not only are my feet still attached to my legs, the circulation in my extremities is improved.
There have been slight signs that mainstream medicine is changing tack on recommendations for diabetics, they need to, because the whole system will crash into bankruptcy if they don't. There have been the odd admissions that Diabetes is reversible, the Newcastle study being the latest one.
That little, small print comment on the effect being due to 'stripping the pancreas of fat' was a very interesting spark, in otherwise impenetrable dark.
If it is fat that is preventing the pancreas from proper functioning, then the next thing is to understand why the fat is accumulating. All that I have read on fat and diabetes makes the supposition that over-eating and eating junk/sugar is the only cause of fat build-up. Certainly in my case this is not true : I cook most of my own food, I try to eat organic and with a family history of diabetes, I have avoided refined sugar for many years...
My own fat-loss was largely due to my GP goading me by frequently repeating that I was 'clinically obese' : I determined to get rid of the fat and the only way to do that was by a very low calorie diet : I lost thirty of the sixty pounds of excess fat that I was carrying, as the fat went, osteo-arthritis arrived!
It now seems that my body was using the fat to protect it's self from toxins that it had no other way to eliminate : there are several suspects : mercury from tooth fillings, aluminium from cooking pans, arsenic from drinking water, acid from an unbalanced digestion, etc.
With my sugar under control, my fat down by 30lbs, but now walking with two sticks, I am working on a slow and very thorough de-tox before thinking of any further fat loss. Interestingly, one of my health problems has been/is rosacea, which my GP dismissed as 'cause unknown' and 'unimportant' : as I work at my de-tox, the red face is slowly improving...
To be continued.
John Fox.