Type 2 diabetes is curable with an 8 week change in diet. Not everything needs to be another app or machine or about generating revenue by making you a lifelong patient.
Sometimes just looking after yourself properly is all you need.
The evidence for treating and reversing type 2 with a plant based diet is staggering.
Whether you want to treat it with plants or some other diet (the evidence is strong with both vegan and omnivorous diets, the emphasis seems to be food diversity, whole foods, and perhaps some modicum of calorie restriction) is fine. It can be done.
Though, in defence of those suffering, the psychological component of developing and acquiring full fledged type 2 diabetes due to poor diet is no small feat to contend with. It can be done, but it takes a lot of confidence in advice given, support from those around you, and the sense that there’s real purpose and value in following through on such a large lifestyle change. At the moment it seems society is severely deficient in these pieces of the recovery puzzle.
That's a very high level of confidence you have about a simple "cure" for a disease that many millions suffer from and is very widely known. Call me skeptical.
The scientific evidence of treating type 2 diabetes with diet isn’t hard to find. What’s hard to find is people with type 2 diabetes who are in the presence of people who will encourage them to change their lifestyles, support them, and help keep them on track. This is why there are millions of people suffering in the first place.
There’s a prolific culture that’s conducive to sickness and suffering, in large part due to diet, but the causes aren’t readily evident or understood by the people inside that culture. That needs to be overcome before any significant progress will be made in treating people with nutrition.
Type-2 diabetes can't be cured, but it can be put into remission for most patients through dietary changes to the extent that they no longer need exogenous insulin. Here is some research.
As a physician, it physically hurts whenever I read stuff like this.
First off, this is in huge bold letters at the top of the second link that you cite as evidence for a "cure" to diabetes:
> We don’t call it diabetes reversal, because this might sound like it's permanent, and there’s no guarantee that your diabetes has gone forever.
Second, starting with diet/exercise before medicines is already medical standard of care for mild diabetes [1, 2]:
> 8.5 Individuals with diabetes and overweight or obesity may benefit from modest or larger magnitudes of weight loss. Relatively small weight loss (approximately 3–7% of baseline weight) improves glycemia and other intermediate cardiovascular risk factors. Larger, sustained weight losses (>10%) usually confer greater benefits, including disease-modifying effects and possible remission of type 2 diabetes, and may improve long-term cardiovascular outcomes and mortality. 8.12 Short-term nutrition intervention using structured, very-low-calorie meals (800–1,000 kcal/day) may be prescribed for carefully selected individuals by trained practitioners in medical settings with close monitoring. Long-term, comprehensive weight maintenance strategies and counseling should be integrated to maintain weight loss.
Many doctors will stop diabetes medications if patients can sustain a hemoglobin A1c < 6.5%. People with a new diagnosis of diabetes often have a hemoglobin A1c in the high 6% to low 7% range, and for them diet alone is often enough to get there. For a new diagnosis with a hemoglobin A1c in that mild range, any doctor worth their salt will recommend a trial of diet and exercise for 3 - 6 months and start medications only if the patient's hemoglobin A1c has not shown much improvement.
But there are also people with hemoglobin A1cs greater than 10. These people have blood sugar levels that are dangerously high. Waiting 3 to 6 months for diet/exercise before starting medications would leave them at significantly increased risk of risk of lethal com[plications like DKA [3].
Very heavy calorie restriction is also not an option for these people because they have a blunted beta-adrenergic response, which means that unlike you and me, they do not release stores of glycogen from their liver when their blood sugar drops low. Which means that if they don't get enough calories for 1 - 2 days, their blood sugar will drop critically low. We see this in the hospital all the time.
So it's not just a matter of doctors throwing insulin and other expensive medications at everyone who walks through the door in diabetes. There is a broad spectrum of severity in diabetes, and different points on the spectrum require different approaches.
Sometimes just looking after yourself properly is all you need.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/may/12/type-2-...
https://www.diabetes.org.uk/diabetes-the-basics/type-2-rever...