Originally Posted by AgimA

V-Effect

‘Many scientists, including us, thought it would be a waste of time to give leptin in the absence of insulin. We’ve been brainwashed into thinking that insulin is the only substance that can correct the consequences of insulin deficiency.’

http://diabetes.taragana.net/leptin...ype-1-diabetes/

You're always so definitive in your conclusions, you may be one of those rare cases, according to Dr. Bernstein, that has no insulin production due to complete depletion of b-cells. But again, according to Dr. Bernstein, most "type 1" diabetics, including myself, still produce enough insulin/leptin/whatever to support a low carb diet without injecting insulin or homeopathic amounts of it.

What do you mean by "beta cells are completely destroyed"? This isn't true in the vast majority, if I remember well, Dr. Bernstein only knows of two cases of types 1 that do not produce measurable amounts of insulin, himself and another patient of him.

Or maybe, as someone suggested here, there are true type 1s, those that had their pancreas removed or do not produce insulin at all, and autoimmune diabetics that by changing their lifestyle to a more human one (and not keeping the lifestyle of a tree) can reduce, drop or intermittently use insulin.

And the other question, could type 2 be also an autoimmune disease?

Originally Posted by v-effect

Here is a fact of life that I have experienced. If I wake up in the morning, having eating nothing all night (isn't *that* VLC?) and there has been a blockage in my inslun pump, I am in serioius ketoacidosis and require an ambulance. No hospital = death. Why hasn't my residual insulin kicked in?

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