Reverse Type I diabetes with diet?

[icerat]

Just a note: To the best of my knowledge, you cannot reverse type 2 diabetes (in humans) even with exercise, weight-loss, and diet. The insulin resistance persists.

I don't think you're correct on this. What may persist is any damage caused by the diabetes, but lifestyle changes can certainly revert insulin resistance. The OP movie seems to be about this.

Better yet would be a way to improve the body's handling of AGEs

Better yet would not be getting in the situation in the first place!

 

[Lucian]

It's very difficult to manage a diabetic cat or dog which is on prednisolone (which is gluconeogenic). The prednisolone is often the actual cause of the diabetes and it makes it hard to control. However, if it's medically necessary because of some other condition, you simply have to make the best of a bad job. I wouldn't expect a cat on prednisolone to go into remission no matter how strict you were with the diet. (And even apart from that, I said 80% - that doesn't mean the owners of the remaining 20% are doing something wrong.)

But I don't get what you say about a tiny dose of insulin being "too much". If a very small dose of insulin produces a hypo episode, I'd be very suspicious indeed that that cat was in remission. (The quick and simple defiition of remission is maintaining normoglycaemia without insulin treatment.)

Rolfe.

I don't remember all the details; however, she had gone into insulin shock and had to go to the emergency vet (I was out of town when that occurred). The regular vet thought perhaps she had gone into remission, but when they tested her blood sugar over a period of several hours, they discovered that she had not. Without insulin, her blood sugar kept rising.

 

[JJM]

Go to the American Dietetic Association http://www.eatright.org/cps/rde/xchg/ada/hs.xsl/nutrition.html and search for raw food.

One article refers, in part, to the guy hawking the diet, as mentioned above. http://www.eatright.org/cps/rde/xchg/ada/hs.xsl/nutrition.html

Bottom Line:
The Raw Diet may be high in fiber, low in total fat, saturated fat, cholesterol and calories; however, it restricts some many important foods that it becomes a challenge to get all the nutrients the body needs. Raw-foodists avoid animal foods; therefore, chances are they won’t get enough vitamins B12 and D. In addition, the options to combine plant proteins are slimmer since all foods need to be raw. Good nutrition is not a synonym of extreme diet practices.

 

[Stacy Head]

Type 2 can be controlled by weight loss.

Type 1 or insulin dependant, lifetime sentence.

Raw diet, ********.

 

[casebro]

I don't think you're correct on this. What may persist is any damage caused by the diabetes, but lifestyle changes can certainly revert insulin resistance. The OP movie seems to be about this.



Better yet would not be getting in the situation in the first place!

There is a huge genetic component. Tell me how to improve my genes. Or better yet, tell Eve. Thr root of my problem seems to be mitochondrial.

 

[Rolfe]

I don't remember all the details; however, she had gone into insulin shock and had to go to the emergency vet (I was out of town when that occurred). The regular vet thought perhaps she had gone into remission, but when they tested her blood sugar over a period of several hours, they discovered that she had not. Without insulin, her blood sugar kept rising.

Makes sense. Nobody's fault, though. Sounds as if she got best state-of-the-art care from all concerned.

Rolfe.

 

[IcarusPhoenix]

For a fascinating account of Dr. Allen's starvation in order to survive diet, pre-insulin:

(edit: can't post links, even in quotes, until I've made more posts)

Linda

Squee!!! *gigantic bear hug* I read that article years and years ago, and wanted to read it again, but couldn't find it! Haha, sorry, nerdgasm.


Someone already said that the "documentary" apparently only talks about Type 2, so maybe it's moot, but for Type 1, just consider the physiology of the disease... Type 1 diabetes is, to my knowledge, an autoimmune disease where the body's own immune system has destroyed the islets of langerhans in the pancreas. Just ask these raw food fanatics the mechanism by which one's diet can regenerate destroyed tissue!

When it comes to diabetes quackery, you can sometimes get away with just asking them which type it treats, 1 or 2, and ask them to briefly explain the difference between them. In some cases you'll get a half-baked mechanism for the treatment, I'm sure, but in other cases you can just shake your head and ask them how they expect you to take medical advice from someone who doesn't even understand the basic physiology of the condition