Diabetes

[Dorothy1952]

Once you have Diabetes you have it for life you can control it really well to stop the Diabetes advancing but it is as yet not curable

[Deb1838]

Well done Dorothy I am getting quite wound up by people saying you can reverse it by losing weight. You can’t only put it in remission.

[TheAwfulToad]

After spending many months on this forum, I'm utterly amazed at the number of diabetics who are determined to remain diabetic. Surveys suggest that 40% of diabetics are completely unwilling to change their diets, but my experience here is that it's probably 80%+.

Virta Health in the US are curing diabetes Type 2 with a 60% success rate (no drugs and normal blood sugar control). They're getting 97% remission (dramatically reduced need for drug support). This is purely a dietary intervention, which doesn't involve any draconian restrictions.

Arguing the distinction between remission vs. cure is pointless: the fact remains that all of Virta's clients are now living more-or-less normal lives, and will not go on to develop the life-threatening secondary consequences of diabetes.

Losing weight has nothing to do with it. Just stop overloading your (failed) carbohydrate-metabolism pathway and the symptoms will recede. If your pancreas is undamaged, you will be "cured", for all practical purposes. Yes, you will lose weight if you do this, but that's by-the-by.

You cannot control diabetes. You can take pills which will force your body to do things it is virtually incapable of doing, but that merely delays the inevitable (heart disease, neuropathy, etc).

What on earth is going on here? I don't get it. I'm starting to wonder if T2D clusters with self-harming personalities, or an external locus of control.