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by llccbb
3396 days ago
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Type 2 diabetes is a lifestyle disease. Changes in lifestyle can reverse the disease. Coupled with early intensive insulin treatment, exercise and diet is __the known cure__ for T2. The current (pharmaceutical) standard of care in America is to subject the patient's body to further stress at the expense of vital organs. |
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Not so fast cowboy. Yes, diet and exercise can contribute to the disease, but some people can eat three doughnuts a day and not get DMT2, some get it despite a healthy lifestyle (including, if you believe the article, the CEO of this company, an ironman competitor).
And some of the damage is irreversible. Damage to pancreas, damage to circulatory system, etc. So catching it early (why they screen for "pre diabetes" and which is why the other company in the article went after pre diabetic patients). Once the patient has been diagnosed with full blown non-T1, then 100% reversal is probably not in the cards, simply a maintenance regime. For most people that includes drugs.
I agree with you without reservation that it's clear that you're better off on many dimensions by maintaining a healthy lifestyle, but like it or not (and I don't like it) that's hard for most people to maintain for many many reasons.
Also, "diabetes" describes a symptom (essentially excessive urination with sugar excreted in the urine"). Under "T2" (basically: anything which isn't your immune system attacking your beta cells) are a cluster of diseases which cause the same symptoms.