For the member that stated they had much improved post prandial numbers with carbs, after 18 months of low carb, this might be interesting to them. (I posted this on a diabetes forum, but thought it relevant here too)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science...50413114001144
Very interesting .
T2: not beta cell loss, but dedifferentiation, early insulin or other means to induce normal glycemia can cause cells to re-differentiate back to insulin positive beta cells.
Basically, it's all about just keeping low BGs.
I'd even bet money that ppl who ran low carb and low BG levels , then report better carb processing years later, did so from actually increasing working beta cell numbers.
To me though, the main cool part, is that this is the 3rd thing I've found so far that is saying that the old idea of apoptosis (beta cell death) might not be right, that just because the cells are not insulin positive, does not mean they are 'dead and gone'. Simply put, their in a different form, like a coma state so to speak.