Sun, Aug-12-18, 07:41
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Doing My Best
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Plan: LC/CancerRecovery
Stats: 170/135/130
BF:24%
Progress: 88%
Location: Nevada Desert, USA
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Cross post from my Journal
From Fung Team this morning. Great explanation about Why T2D is reversable:
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Here’s something you may already know - over 50% of American adults have either prediabetes or diabetes.
Not surprised?
Here’s something you may not know:
These twin cycles (hepatic and pancreatic) are not metabolic dysfunction that ends in disease, but protective mechanisms.
Yep, you heard us right -- insulin resistance (and beta cell dysfunction) are protective.
Insulin is harmful and the reason we’re “resisting” it (otherwise known as Insulin resistance) is because our body is trying to protect our liver.
Picture the liver as a balloon, and when we eat it fills up with fat and sugar. When we stop eating for awhile, like during fasting, the insulin levels drop, releasing some of the stored energy and deflating the balloon.
But if insulin levels stay elevated for a long time, the balloon (your liver) inflates - filling with excess sugar and fat. The pressure inside the liver escalates, which makes it difficult for any more sugar to make its way into this jam-packed liver. The liver doesn’t have any room for more sugar, and so pushes (or resists) the incoming sugar, which now piles up outside in the blood.
This provokes a compensatory hyperinsulinemia (excess insulin circulating in the blood). Like trying to inflate the over-inflated balloon, it works for a time. However, it becomes more and more difficult. Ultimately, the liver was only trying to protect itself from the damaging effects of the high insulin. The problem is not the insulin resistance, but excess insulin in the bloodstream.
The liver is busy trying to clear the fatty congestion by exporting this new fat. Some of it accumulates in the pancreas, eventually clogging it and lowering insulin levels. This is exactly the correct protective response. Since high insulin is the very problem that causes type 2 diabetes, reducing insulin is the most effective protective strategy.
The treatments we have been using for type 2 diabetes were EXACTLY wrong. Too much insulin causes this disease. Giving insulin or drugs that raise insulin will not make the disease better. It will only make it worse!
It is no different from treating alcoholism with more alcohol. Treating alcohol withdrawal by giving more alcohol will certainly improve symptoms in the short-term. But the disease, the alcoholism will get worse.
Our standard accepted treatments were precisely how NOT to treat type 2 diabetes. It’s very difficult to assess how reversible a disease is when you’re feeding it instead of treating it. But when you look at diabetes through the lens of treatments that address core issues, the reversibility problem looks much, much clearer.
Are you feeling hopeful, inspired and ready to reclaim your health?
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