Diabetes Cure?

[oldgardener]

Originally Posted by Tall Traveler

Yep, my Dr. said I had reversed Diabetes, there is no cure according to medical experts. If I eat sugar, my BS will spike.

Exactly.


Control is not cure, and "reverse" is a meaningless word in this context.

[gguerra]

Diabetes is VERY complicated. If your's is a case of simple insulin resistance and your pancreas works fine, then yes you can reverse it which is effectively curing it. Lose the weight down to normal, change your bad eating habits and exercise, it can go away completely. Some would call that a cure. It can come back however if you choose to go back to bad habits which would mean that you are not cured. In cases like this, it's just your inability to handle sugar spikes that caused the problem in the first place. It's not a "disease" per se, but a metabolic dysfunction.

[gypsychic]

Originally Posted by gguerra

Diabetes is VERY complicated. If your's is a case of simple insulin resistance and your pancreas works fine, then yes you can reverse it which is effectively curing it. Lose the weight down to normal, change your bad eating habits and exercise, it can go away completely. Some would call that a cure. It can come back however if you choose to go back to bad habits which would mean that you are not cured. In cases like this, it's just your inability to handle sugar spikes that caused the problem in the first place. It's not a "disease" per se, but a metabolic dysfunction.

This ^^^.

[T Waffle]

I followed the Whole Food Plant-based diet and exercise and in 3 months I reversed it from A1C 7.5 to A1C 5.3
from 203lbs to 172lbs
Total Cholesterol 285 to 178
LDL from 230 to 104