South Asian people undergo type 2 diabetes remission with low calorie diets
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Re: South Asian people undergo type 2 diabetes remission with low calorie diets
#2Isn’t this obvious?
Re: South Asian people undergo type 2 diabetes remission with low calorie diets
#3Isn’t this obvious?
Why would it be obvious? For that matter, since I'm out of the loop, what's the mechanism for losing fat to improve insulin control?
Re: South Asian people undergo type 2 diabetes remission with low calorie diets
#4In South India, they have a carbohydrate-rich diet. So when you get hit badly with T2D, you switch to fish, limited brown/red rice, and veggies. In most cases, all of your medication stop if you maintain your weight and diet with exercise. Unfortunately, only some maintain a diet and healthy weight. Even 10 kg weight loss gives far better control for T2D.
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#6There's a long history of studies showing Low-Calorie Diets as being effective for reversing T2D. The late Sarah Hallberg wrote a narrative review that I liked a lot a couple years back (see section 3.2 for the part on LCDs): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6520897/
Hallberg SJ, Gershuni VM, Hazbun TL, Athinarayanan SJ. Reversing Type 2 Diabetes: A Narrative Review of the Evidence. Nutrients. 2019 Apr 1;11(4):766. doi: 10.3390/nu11040766. PMID: 30939855; PMCID: PMC6520897.
Re: South Asian people undergo type 2 diabetes remission with low calorie diets
#7Isn’t this obvious?
> Isn’t this obvious?
Please consider wondering why no doctors/scientist know how to heal people with diabetes. Do they miss something obvious?
Re: South Asian people undergo type 2 diabetes remission with low calorie diets
#8Isn’t this obvious?
Why would it be obvious? For that matter, since I'm out of the loop, what's the mechanism for losing fat to improve insulin control?
Simply put fat worsens insulin resistance. The mechanism is complex, basically fat causes inflammation that causes cells to not respond appropriately to insulin. This leads to elevated blood glucose and all the effects of diabetes. Remove the fat, decrease inflammation, improve insulin resistance.
Re: South Asian people undergo type 2 diabetes remission with low calorie diets
#9My parents, very much not South Asian, achieved the same thing as per their doctor's recommendation.
Re: South Asian people undergo type 2 diabetes remission with low calorie diets
#10Isn’t this obvious?
> Isn’t this obvious? Please consider wondering why no doctors/scientist know how to heal people with diabetes. Do they miss something obvious?
Most doctors know how to heal people with type 2 diabetes, at least if you catch it early enough. It is well known that if you lose weight and eat a healthy diet the insulin resistance is reversible (some others in this thread have provided citations showing this).