Wudi@feddit.uk to Health - Resources and discussion for everything health-related@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agoCan Type 2 Diabetes Be Reversed?medicine.yale.eduexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up115arrow-down10
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minus-square9point6@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·5 days agoAm I being an idiot or was this not already known? I thought that if you get diabetes from poor diet, fixing the diet and getting to a healthy weight is the long term treatment?
minus-squarexep@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·5 days agoDiabetes T2 is chronically elevated blood glucose, so the fix is therapeutic carbohydrate restriction. The exogenous carbohydrates are the root cause. Returning to a healthy weight will naturally follow when insulin is once again able to function normally.
minus-squareOnomatopoeia@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 days agoI hate it’s even called diabetes. T1 is an autoimmune condition. T2 is chronic glucose instability largely from bad diet.
Am I being an idiot or was this not already known?
I thought that if you get diabetes from poor diet, fixing the diet and getting to a healthy weight is the long term treatment?
Diabetes T2 is chronically elevated blood glucose, so the fix is therapeutic carbohydrate restriction. The exogenous carbohydrates are the root cause.
Returning to a healthy weight will naturally follow when insulin is once again able to function normally.
I hate it’s even called diabetes.
T1 is an autoimmune condition.
T2 is chronic glucose instability largely from bad diet.