[vlaak]

I didn't read the story because of addblock but I've seen headlines like this before. As someone with type 2 they always annoy me. I've been eating low carb for a long time (sometimes more successfully than others) and while I can keep my blood sugars under control with the diet, and hopefully keep my body from further damage, I have not "cured" my diabetes. If I eat a high carb meal, my blood sugar will shoot up way higher than that of a normal person. I still have diabetes. Eating low carb is not curing me, but it is helping me keep things under reasonable control.

[godshatter]

I've recently been diagnosed with type 2 (a few months ago), and have noticed significant benefit from a low carb diet, just as you state. I'm curious if you've looked into intermittent fasting as a method of trying to reverse type 2 as well.

The general gist is that it gives your pancreas some "time off" from having to manage blood sugar increases due to daily ingestion of food, hopefully allowing it some time to "heal". I've started this and have noticed a small bit of improvement in my blood glucose levels, both on the fasting day and for a few days on the non-fasting days. I've been fasting one day in six.

I'm skeptical of this actually "reversing" the disease, but it does seem to help my numbers, as well as helping me lose a small amount of weight. It also reacquaints me with hunger, and makes it easier on the non-fasting days not to succumb to non-hunger related eating cues, at least in my experience.

[vlaak]

Interesting you mention the idea of fasting. I'm learning more about it now. My roommate, who is not diabetic but interested in low-carb anyway, has been investigating this for a while and has brought it to my attention. Any tool I can add to the toolbox is worth considering.