Type 2 diabetes is caused by a diet high in sugar and processed foods high in carbohydrates.
When your body digests these foods, it increases your blood sugar. Insulin is created which signals your cells to absorb enough sugar from the blood to bring you back into balance.
With type 2 diabetes, you bring this condition upon yourself by constantly eating these foods. If your cells are already full of sugar, they do not respond to the insulin and absorb more of it, which prompts your pancreas to create even more insulin to get your blood sugar back under control. Eventually, your pancreas can give out due to being overworked and now your blood sugar is out of control.
People who have had type 2 diabetes for years are not going to be able to cure that condition overnight, if at all. It all depends on how their pancreas responds after they increase their activity levels, switch to a low carb diet and start fasting. All of those actions will decrease insulin resistance over time.
Alcoholics eventually develop cirrhosis of the liver. Quitting drinking is not going to reverse that once the liver has been damaged beyond a certain point. There are some type 2 diabetics who have damaged their pancreas in the same fashion. They will be required to take insulin for the rest of their life.
However, those who have just been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes can likely reverse the condition over time by changing their diets to whole foods and upping their activity levels.
I have no idea how I ended up on this thread. I must have clicked on somebody's post history or something and did not realize this was from 4 months ago.
Type 2 diabetes is caused by a diet high in sugar and processed foods high in carbohydrates.
When your body digests these foods, it increases your blood sugar. Insulin is created which signals your cells to absorb enough sugar from the blood to bring you back into balance.
With type 2 diabetes, you bring this condition upon yourself by constantly eating these foods. If your cells are already full of sugar, they do not respond to the insulin and absorb more of it, which prompts your pancreas to create even more insulin to get your blood sugar back under control. Eventually, your pancreas can give out due to being overworked and now your blood sugar is out of control.
People who have had type 2 diabetes for years are not going to be able to cure that condition overnight, if at all. It all depends on how their pancreas responds after they increase their activity levels, switch to a low carb diet and start fasting. All of those actions will decrease insulin resistance over time.
Alcoholics eventually develop cirrhosis of the liver. Quitting drinking is not going to reverse that once the liver has been damaged beyond a certain point. There are some type 2 diabetics who have damaged their pancreas in the same fashion. They will be required to take insulin for the rest of their life.
However, those who have just been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes can likely reverse the condition over time by changing their diets to whole foods and upping their activity levels.
Did you mean that reply for Mengderen to add to my reply?
This is quite an old thread now.
I have no idea how I ended up on this thread. I must have clicked on somebody's post history or something and did not realize this was from 4 months ago.
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It's me, I put the link on a recent shedding post.