What do I mean by Reversing Diabetes? some people have issues with this statement or feel it is misleading. I don’t obviously but maybe I should explain why.
First off I separate the terms “Cure Diabetes” and “Reverse Diabetes”, they do not mean the same thing and I cannot stress that enough: You cannot cure diabetes! once you’ve crossed that line between pre-diabetes and Type 2 Diabetes, there is no going back. you are a diabetic and you will always be a diabetic.
That being said you can reverse it. (Or as a reader pointed out, “Remission” would be a far better term for this, rather than “reverse”.) that means through lifestyle changes you can remove the symptoms of type 2 diabetes, i.e. high blood sugar, with minimal or no medication. No high blood sugar means no diabetic complications later in life. this is not a “cure” because when you stop maintaining the lifestyle changes the symptoms come right back.
Isn’t this just managing our disease?
Yes, to a degree, but typical diabetes management involves much higher levels of medications that generally snowball in dosage year after year. Everyone is going to have these drug management phases from time to time but due to possible risks from drug interactions, side effects, and increased cancer risk and other health effects from higher insulin levels. I just do not believe this is the best LONG TERM strategy.
We are all going to get sick, have injuries, or whatever that is going to put us on the defensive by using typical diabetes management. and unfortunately as we get older our disease is going to become harder and harder to control without more meds.
My point and in fact the entire point of this blog is we should stay on the offensive as much as we can with lifestyle changes to delay that high medication snowball as long as we can. the longer we can put off needing those high dosages gives us more time later in life that we can use them if and when we have to.
My goal is simple:Keep my blood sugar and insulin levels low using no or as little medication as possible.
Nothing is free, every drug including insulin has some sort of side effect or possible complication. the side effects from lifestyle changes are more muscle, less fat, strong heart and lungs, and just better all around health.
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