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Originally Posted by dancinbr
Why is it that people have to be so hostile and contentious ?
I think we all know that once you have diabetes there is no known "cure" but we know how to control it quite well.
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Trouble is that people like to use the word "cure" because as far as they are concerned remission of symptoms is what they are after.
I don't have a diabetes diagnosis though I did have all the symptoms of metabolic syndrome and it was probably only a matter of time, but I do have the late effects of polio and before vitamin D, omega 3 and magnesium I was aging at an accelerated rate. I wasn't able to walk or even stand for long so was signficantly disabled. Improving vitamin D levels solved the problems arising from pain, muscle weakness, depression, low immune status, and sexual dysfunction, I can now walk and stand for long enough to both prepare a meal and wash up afterwards. I no longer use a wheelchair. But I cannot say attacking inflammation aggressively through diet, supplements and exercise CURES Post Polio Syndrome because the damage polio caused initially will always be there and so I cannot ever stop what I am currently doing to hold the symptoms at bay.
It's just the same for diabetics.
Once the symptoms are recognized then the genetic and environmental predisposition to diabetes has to be accepted and anti diabetes diet, exercise and supplement regimes adopted.
But saying there is no CURE implies you have to accept fully the "official" diabetes protocol but that is only symptom management pharmaceutically the Barry Groves approach is to avoid the symptoms. Using the word CURE smacks of quackery but relief from symptoms and improved quality of life are in effect a cure from the current problems and offer hope of a better prognosis.
I find the attitude of most diabetics and forums for diabetics totally hostile to the potential for reduction of symptoms through dietary change or supplement use. It doesn't matter how many evidence based peer reviewed articles you produce, on the whole they would rather pump up the insulin so they can continue to harm themselves with refined carbs.