Mon, Feb-01-10, 16:51
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Plan: paleo type
Stats: 356/246.6/185
BF:23%
Progress: 64%
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Type 2 is not a disease, so much as a symptom of blood sugar problems with a fairly large collection of different causes. Further, the degree of the "disease" is dependent on both insulin resistance and the amount of damage to the beta cells and the pancreas in general.
A quick telling of my own life, and ignorance, will shed some light on whether there is a "cure."
I was diagnosed with Type 2 at the age of 56 and reacted quickly by losing weight from 356 pounds to 242 pounds, and lowering my carbs quite a bit, and adding some BS reducing herbs to the mix. I cycled the herbs every few weeks so the body couldn't adapt. I never even got my own BS meter, but when my sister came over the next year and a half she would test my post-meal spikes, They were never over 107 an hour after meals.
But I had to go into the hospital for something unrelated at age 58, and because of my previous diagnoses they would test me. My post-meal spikes were still good. One day the doc stated with a smug look, "You've somehow done a good job of controlling your BS, but the problems always come back." And, that is the experience of most doctors when they use the term control rather then cure. Since that time my BS problems have slowly gotten a little worse.
So my take on whether or not there is a "cure" or something close to a cure:
Most people when they get their BS under fairly good control, are naive if they think diet and exercise with herbs or something like Metformin goes as far as a cure, unless they can take it further than most can even consider.
But...but perhaps something like a cure could be called if through diet, exercise, and perhaps Metformin or some herbs you could reduce your A1C to the level of a totally healthy person with no BS problems whatsoever, for say a year. That A1C would have to be 4.8 or lower each time, and there would have to be signs of regression of previous damage from BS spikes. That would come close to a cure without saying the person could go back to some silly high-carb diet. IMHO anyway,
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