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Interesting that you should bring up type I diabetes. It is a perfect example of how current medical practices treat symptoms, at the expense of patients. Why
by e40 8y ago
Interesting that you should bring up type I diabetes. It is a perfect example of how current medical practices treat symptoms, at the expense of patients. Why? Because treating it with drugs makes companies lots and lots of money. I have an in-law that took his medical condition into his own hands and went on a strict very-low carb diet. After a few months he was taking a fraction of the insulin he was previous to the diet. Why isn't this the first thing the medical community tells patients to do? Because there is no incentive. The drug companies wouldn't like it, selling so much less insulin.
- lazyasciiart 8y agoI have a couple of relatives with T1D and that was exactly the first thing they were told to do. However doctors know that many people will not do this, and good doctors are more interested in helping the patient be healthy than being moralistic jerks, and so they prescribe insulin to meet the patients existing needs instead of saying "well you should have eaten better and then you wouldn't be dying so young".