Type 2 diabetes may be reversable

[Xarog]

A new study from Newcastle University has shown that people who reverse their diabetes and then keep their weight down remain free of diabetes.

In addition, the team found that even patients who have had Type 2 diabetes for up to 10 years can reverse their condition.

The study, published today in Diabetes Care, is the latest research from world-renowned Professor Roy Taylor, Professor of Medicine and Metabolism at Newcastle University, who also works within Newcastle Hospitals.

The research is part of a growing body of evidence showing that people with Type 2 diabetes who successfully lose weight can reverse their condition because fat is removed from their pancreas, returning insulin production to normal.

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-03-reverse-diabetesand-diabetes-free-long-term.html

 

[Ancalagon]

It is reversible. Check out intensivedietarymanagement.com

Many success stories there of people successfully reversing their type 2 diabetes.

 

[The_MAC]

This documentary proves this: Simply Raw -reversing-diabetes-in-30-days

I believe that in most cases diabetes is caused by bad diet and lack of nutrition, so it only makes sense that improving this will suppress Diabetes to a point that it is "cured".

 

[Ancalagon]

Well Type 1 diabetes is genetic, but Type 2 diabetes is only caused by diet. It isn't a lack of nutrition, it is simply having elevated insulin for too long. Elevated insulin is caused by eating too much high GI foods too often.

EDIT: Flip looking at that documentary, you don't need to eat uncooked organic vegan food to beat diabetes. You just need to eat less carbohydrates and do some fasting. Either a long fast, or regular intermittent fasting will eventually cure type 2 diabetes.

 

[The_MAC]

Well Type 1 diabetes is genetic, but Type 2 diabetes is only caused by diet. It isn't a lack of nutrition, it is simply having elevated insulin for too long. Elevated insulin is caused by eating too much high GI foods too often.

EDIT: Flip looking at that documentary, you don't need to eat uncooked organic vegan food to beat diabetes. You just need to eat less carbohydrates and do some fasting. Either a long fast, or regular intermittent fasting will eventually cure type 2 diabetes.

Some people don't have discipline, so they need to use a shock tactic, its a mind shift. But yeah, stress and diet, probably causes more than half of all these "modern day" diseases.

 

[The_MAC]

Well Type 1 diabetes is genetic, but Type 2 diabetes is only caused by diet. It isn't a lack of nutrition, it is simply having elevated insulin for too long. Elevated insulin is caused by eating too much high GI foods too often.

EDIT: Flip looking at that documentary, you don't need to eat uncooked organic vegan food to beat diabetes. You just need to eat less carbohydrates and do some fasting. Either a long fast, or regular intermittent fasting will eventually cure type 2 diabetes.

Some people don't have discipline, so they need to use a shock tactic, its a mind shift. But yeah, stress and diet, probably causes more than half of all these "modern day" diseases.

 

[Kosmik]

Maybe I'm wrong in this but isn't diabetes where the body is at the point that it can no longer properly produce insulin? My understanding is that it's a finite resource within a certain organ ( pancrease or spleen I think it was ) and once that organ fails, there is no turning back. Or is that strictly type 1?

 

[xumwun]

Maybe I'm wrong in this but isn't diabetes where the body is at the point that it can no longer properly produce insulin? My understanding is that it's a finite resource within a certain organ ( pancrease or spleen I think it was ) and once that organ fails, there is no turning back. Or is that strictly type 1?

I think type 1 is not producing insulin and type 2 is insulin not doing anything or very little.

 

[dj_jyno]

Maybe I'm wrong in this but isn't diabetes where the body is at the point that it can no longer properly produce insulin?

That's type I, yes. Can't think of the link now, but apparently there have been studies using stem cells to reverse the progression of type I as well. Type II is where your body is resistant to insulin, so your insulin concentration is high enough, but your body doesn't react to it.

 

[Ancalagon]

Maybe I'm wrong in this but isn't diabetes where the body is at the point that it can no longer properly produce insulin? My understanding is that it's a finite resource within a certain organ ( pancrease or spleen I think it was ) and once that organ fails, there is no turning back. Or is that strictly type 1?

Type 2 diabetes is characterized by an inability to maintain proper blood glucose levels because of insulin resistance. The body doesn't respond to insulin like it used to, which means blood glucose stays high. Excess blood glucose is toxic, which is the reason insulin shunts it into cells.

This insulin resistance means that the pancreas beta cells have to pump out more insulin in order for blood glucose to be maintained at the right level. Eventually, the beta cells die because of having to do too much work, and this results in insulin dependent type 2 diabetes.

Type 1 diabetes is where insulin resistance is not a problem - you just don't produce any insulin at all (still a major problem). Type 2 begins with insulin resistance and ends with beta cell failure.