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If you don‘t eat carbohydrates, you don‘t need insulin, so it is no disadvantage that you cannot produce it. Calling that a remission is far fetched though.
by Hendrikto 7y ago
If you don‘t eat carbohydrates, you don‘t need insulin, so it is no disadvantage that you cannot produce it.
Calling that a remission is far fetched though.
- donatzsky 7y agoAnecdata and all that, but I have seen quite a few reports of people overcoming their t2 diabetes through low-carb diets. Whether they were actually cured is harder to say.
- magic_beans 7y agoThey still couldn't eat a high-carb food item without seeing a drastic spike in blood sugar. So: not cured of t2, but in remission.
- pohl 7y ago“...that you cannot produce it.” It sounds like you are conflating type 1 and type 2. The mechanism of the latter begins with insulin resistance.
- noarchy 7y ago>If you don‘t eat carbohydrates, you don‘t need insulin, so it is no disadvantage that you cannot produce it. That doesn't sound right at all. Protein produces both a blood sugar and an insulin response.
- tagh 7y agoYou still need insulin to digest protein and for general living throughout the day, even when fasting. It'd be more accurate to say "if you don't eat carbohydrate, you need less insulin, so your insulin requirements may be met by your (degraded) pancreatic output." On remission: if your Type II diabetes is in the early stages, and is largely due to lifestyle, then a lower carbohydrate diet could help you lose weight and improve insulin sensitivity. If your insulin sensitivity reaches the point where your pancreas' produced insulin is adequate (even for high-carb meals), then you've beaten the disease. This is the remission they speak about.