Sounds exciting. I hope it becomes available on more channels.

Glewed TV is available as a free app, so you can download it and watch on various devices. I've downloaded it to my Fire TV.

I did the same. Downloaded Glewed TV last night. As Demi states, it's a free streaming service. The first series on T2D is currently available.

I'm still unclear about what they mean by "reversing" diabetes.

To my mind, if you have reversed the disease, that should mean that you are back to the state you were in previously, as would be indicated by something like a glucose tolerance test. Is that truly the case? Or are they simply managing the disease very effectively?

No, I think you're pretty much spot on. To my understanding, "reversal" of diabetes is basically the act of having returned to a state of health where you could no longer be considered from a diagnostic perspective to be diabetic.

The term "reversal" is used instead of "cure", as to have "cured" something implies that you won't/can't get it back again, which of course we know doesn't apply to diabetes. But "reversal" is still better than "remission", which implies that you will always carry the condition once you have it.

I refer to my autoimmune condition as being in remission, which I understand is more accurate. If I eat the way I used to, it will come back. So it's certainly not cured, and I can understand the use of the word "reversal" because I've returned to a better state of health.

But isn't that the same thing? In both uses of the word, the bad diet that created the condition will cause the symptoms to return.

A TV commercial said
You don't have a "metabolic disease"
you have "insulin resistance"

What?

Good observations. I think the terms reversal and remission are close but one could differentiate with the condition that reversal is done by a known protocol (e.g., a way of eating) where the condition goes away due to the protocol followed. Remission may be better described as the symptoms of the condition go away, but it's not definitively known whether or why they'll return. My own interpretation is that "remission" is most commonly used with a disease like cancer, which may come back for no known reason, where I tend to apply "reversal" to something like T2D where one can successfully eliminate the conditions and high blood glucose through diet and exercise. T2D can easily come back if the protocol reversing it is no longer followed.

I would need to see some real data to back up the claim that the diabetes is "reversed" and not simply in "remission" or even just simply being managed. If diabetes is characterized by the pancreas' ability to produce insulin being diminished, has the pancreas' ability to produce insulin been restored? Or are we just living a lifestyle that is compatible with the pancreas' still-diminished ability? If the latter, then we are simply managing the disease, but we still have it.

There's another way of looking at it, where diabetes is not a "disease" but one symptom of what we might call Induced Metabolic Syndrome. Under such a theory, processed carbohydrates are a poison which disrupts the body's functioning.

By removing this poison, the body regains function, and the symptoms go away.

But DOES the body "regain" function?

Before I developed diabetes, if I ate a certain amount of carbs my blood sugar would rise a certain amount, namely an amount that was normal for a person that didn't have diabetes. After I developed diabetes, if I eat that same amount of carbs my blood sugar will rise to levels way, way higher than that. which was a normal. In order to claim that "removing that poison" has "reversed" my diabetes, my condition must return to a state in which if I do consume that same level of carbs my sugars will now rise to a level much more consistent with what they would have before I developed the diabetes. If they instead still rise to similar stratospheric heights, then I still have diabetes and avoiding the "poison" is merely being effective at managing the impact of the disease.

I think part of the problem with determining the correct word to use is that we tend to think of diabetes and other diseases as things we possess rather than processes the body undergoes given certain causes and conditions.These causes and conditions are similar but not identical for every individual body and are comprised of internal conditions ( eg genetics) and external conditions (eg foods consumed). Some of these causes and conditions we can control like what food we consume, how much we consume, when we consume them and some we don't control like our genes. What is important is to understand the processes involved in the development of diabetes and what we can change in order for the diabetic process not to occur or continue to occur in any given body. A single word can never reflect the complexity of the processes involved in the evolution and diminution of this disease in each and every individual but without language we can't communicate so we search for words that best describe what is happening but can never precisely reflect the complexity of what is occurring. In other words don't confuse the word for the process. Words are necessary simplifications that allow us to communicate but often simplify what is truly going on as well as the differences that exist among people.

Perhaps we are now talking about a function of insulin sensitivity? Which takes time to develop... and time to return to a "normal" baseline. It's not just how much insulin the pancreas can make. It's also how much the body needs to handle the blood sugar.

In that case, it is a remission/reversal situation in that we've brought the metabolic disorder under control. Much about the body heals as a result.

from Diet Doctor:



This is by Dr. Fung, who included an article about "fatty pancreas." Which can be reversed.

Important points here. Semantic noise is the inability to use language (words) to fully describe what is going on or what one feels. Language has always been an imperfect way to describe things. I know I can eliminate symptoms of Metabolic Syndrome which include symptoms associated with T2D by following a lifestyle that includes changes in eating, activity, and sleep, restoration. When I can do this, I don't care whether it's called reversal or remission, all I know is that I can eliminate unhealthy symptoms. I also know that when I stop following the lifestyle changes that brought me health, it can all go away, and likely more quickly than the time taken to initially develop those symptoms.