I have been a type II diabetic for around ten years.
I have been on Metformin off and on for years. At one point my doctor had me up to 2000 mg per day. Early on the Metformin seemed to work, but as the years have gone by I realized it does nothing for me. If I stay on a strict diet I can keep the blood sugar down somewhat but not into what the medical industry says is an acceptable level.
I have my A1C tested on a fairly regular basis and with a controlled diet I am usually around a 7. On a daily basis my blood sugar can fluctuate between high 130s all the way up to 190 when I’ve been bad. One day of going nuts skyrockets the fasting blood sugar the next morning.
About four weeks ago I started on the carnivore diet, and even with that I was still popping a fasting blood sugar in the 140 to 160 range on many days.
I started researching on nitrogen oxide’s affects on the body, and during that research came upon a video about iodine and its affects on the body. I decided to start taking iodine to see what it would do. Mind you I was not looking for something to combat the diabetes.
However, within about three days the fasting blood sugar was going down. At about one week I couldn’t explain why that was happening because I wasn’t necessarily sticking to my carnivore diet strictly, and I would usually see a large spike when I had been bad. Those large spikes were not happening.
I sat down and started contemplating what had changed. The only thing that changed was that I had started taking four drops of iodine daily. I have come to the conclusion that my insulin resistant diabetes is the result of an iodine deficiency. I still try to watch my diet, but I have had about three days that I knew I had gone overboard, and yet the highest fasting blood sugar I have popped is 130. For me that is a nothing burger. I am also off the worthless Metformin.
I have since learned that because of the depletion of iodine in our soils 80 to 85 percent of the US is iodine deficient. If you are Type II Diabetic due to insulin resistance iodine would be worth a try in my opinion. You have nothing to lose by giving it a shot. The iodine I am taking is one of the Lugol's 2% solution brands. I have read the Nascent Iodine is a better option, and I have some coming but have not tried the ionized version yet.
I hope this can help some of those in the community. If you give this a try and works or doesn't work for you let us know.
^ Adding to this:
Correct.
More specifically, the congressional committee was headed by Sen. George McGovern, who was a vegetarian.
Most of the experts the committee heard from said fat is NOT the problem, but carbs ARE the problem.
McGovern ignored them, and the result was the inverted food pyramid (you should invert it and do the opposite of what it suggests).
But before McGovern ...
Was in the 1950's, a man named Ancel Keys. Perhaps one of the most disgusting and dishonest people who ever lived.
He claimed to have done a study called the "7 Country Study" (or 6 countries, depending on if you count England and Wales as 1 or 2).
He claimed to show that there was a direct correlation between high fat consumption and high heart disease/heart attacks in a country.
This was the 50's. There were only 3 TV stations, all in NYC. He went on all the TV shows and pushed his narrative.
Americans suddenly became afraid of fat and started eating more carbs and fake foods (margarine instead of butter, etc. -- margarine is made from plant oils, not animal fats).
BUT ... Ancel Keys lied. He actually studied 22 countries, and cherry picked just a few to show his correlation. When other researchers noticed this, they called him out and showed that there was actually no correlation at all between eating saturated fat and heart disease.
But there IS a strong correlation between eating sugar and heart disease, and smoking (a big thing in the 50's) and heart disease.
We learned later than Ancel Keys was funded by Rockefeller.
He was also funded by the sugar industry -- documents have since surfaced proving this.
Ancel Keys was also the one who came up with the Mediterreanan Diet. He pushed it has a great diet because he took a vacation to Italy and thought everyone looked good. No other reason. No research at all!
Finally, guess who came up with the Daily Recommended Allowances for the various vitamins and minerals?
Ancel Keys.
Even today, his false ideas are taught as gospel in medical schools, which is a primary reason why medical school graduates become doctors who have no clue at all about the connection between nutrition and health (or sickness).