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by paulcole 696 days ago
> As far as I underdstand it, if you don't eat carbohydrates, you don't require insulin to deal with the spikes, and apart from a few grams in the bloodstream, humans require extremely little to no exogenous carbs.

To put it bluntly: You don’t understand it.

Type 1 is different from Type 2.

A Type 1 person without insulin will die.

> “I will see that in someone with 0 percent insulin production, they’ll begin to fall ill within 12 to 24 hours after their last insulin injection, depending on its duration of effect. Within 24 to 48 hours, they’ll be in DKA. Beyond that, mortal outcomes would likely occur within days to perhaps a week or two. But I could not see someone surviving much longer than that.”

https://www.healthline.com/diabetesmine/ask-dmine-lifespan-s...