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I did my surgical internship at a hospital with a substantial bariatrics service. Yes. Starvation will cure type 2 diabetes. Overnight. Roux-en-Y patients often

I did my surgical internship at a hospital with a substantial bariatrics service. Yes. Starvation will cure type 2 diabetes. Overnight. Roux-en-Y patients often have normal blood sugars by the time they're out of the OR. We would watch them for 48 hours and their blood sugar didn't go back up. When they came in for follow-up, still down. It works. Like a champ. I would like to reply to more comments here, but it's past midnight and my battery is dying. Maybe more tomorrow. But, yeah, in general, type 2 diabetes is almost universally a consequence of over-eating.

carbocation 15y ago
I came here to say the same thing. While on my bariatric surgery rotation, the attending surgeons all said much what you said above with regards to normalizing blood sugars. One of them felt that the majority of her patients normalized their blood sugars pre-op thanks to their preoperative fast...
G3P 15y ago
"Taylor, the director of the Newcastle Magnetic Resonance Centre, had the idea for the study after it was shown that diabetes was reversed in people who had undergone stomach stapling or other forms of bariatric surgery because of obesity." http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jun/24/low-calorie-diet-hope-cure-diabetes?INTCMP=SRCH http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jun/24/low-calorie-di...