Originally Posted by Brian Austin Whitney
Originally Posted by John Voorpostel
Type 1 Diabetes is something that needs lifelong treatment

Type 2 comes from bad dietary habits that include ingesting too much sugar.
Regulating that intake is hard because it is everywhere and insuling resistance comes about because your it gets harder and harder to pack more fat into your cells
BTW the result of a political decision that decided between sugar and fat as the bad guy in a diet somewhere back around 1960 if memory serves me.
The decision was controversial but won and by the sugar industry ...which had then and continues to lobby politically and influence the public into thinking it is good for you
...... by funding so called scientific conclusions experts continue to debate

You have heard of intermittent fasting I am sure
Essentially you compress "good eating" within a daily 8 hour window.
With Type 2 diabetes, the sugar levels will come down.

But of course there are now drugs to do the same..bring sugar levels down

So you can choose. eat lots of sugar and take drugs to counter the effects
or
intermittently fast and reduce sugar

You WILL lose weight and your long term sugar levels will slide below the diagnosis threshold.

Now I am sure it will not work with everyone and everyone should talk about it with their doctor.
Google Dr Jason Fung if you are interested in this at all.

John,

That explains SOME Type 2 issues, causes and effects, but does not apply to ALL. It is a diverse problem. I know people who eat healthy are at or below average weight for their height but who still develop insulin resistance. Type 1 diabetics can also experience both resistance and hyper sensitivity based on TONS of varying health problems and circumstances, as well as some that are unexplainable. In some cases, having high blood sugar, (especially a problem before the advanced testing systems they have now) can also lead to insulin resistance. There was a long time where you only got color coding results that had shading to indicate "ranges" of blood sugar and no way to calibrate or check on their accuracy except a blood draw at a hospital (later at a doctor office) to check for accuracy. I found my ACTUAL blood sugar was often WAY different than the color coding related to metabolism quirks my body has. So my results led to incorrect assumptions and adjustments leading to both high and low blood sugars as a result. I played college sports making things super dangerous and tricky. I had to keep my blood sugar intentionally elevated and after 4 years of that, it kind of locked my metabolism to being used to higher levels. That has followed me into adulthood, so I have serious symptoms of low blood sugar at much higher levels than most diabetics. Even now with sensors and a pump monitoring levels, it is a problem because the "norms" baked into these products clashes with my biology which has led to weight gain and much larger insulin requirements. Only recently has it gotten closer to normal (for more health reasons). It is a super complicated disease (Type 1 and Type 2) with a myriad of difficulties. It is why it is one of the top causes of death. My only other Type 1 relative (until my son) died at 59. So I know the clock is ticking. My son has it and got it 10 years younger than I was. He had a MUCH tougher trajectory.

So that is why seeing well meaning people who are simply ignorant of the realities, offering advice that would literally lead to death is a bit triggering. I feel the same way when well meaning people offer all sorts of Cancer advice (when they have never had nor had anyone close with it) while people are in daily life and death struggles and are sometimes desperate for any hopeful idea. Most doctors are wrong often (sadly) so having advice from the peanut gallery is annoying and dangerous. I know a lot of people who were so desperate they pursued ANY idea ANYONE put out there and many were scammed out of their money and out of their last breathing days.

Brian

I can think of a place much more suitable for this conversation...

Oh, wait... that thread got deleted too.