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Post by Lone Wanderer on Oct 17, 2018 16:17:04 GMT
Planned intermittent fasting may help to reverse type 2 diabetes, suggest doctors after three patients in their care, who did this, were able to cut out the need for insulin treatment altogether.
Three men, aged between 40 and 67, tried out planned intermittent fasting to see if it might ease their symptoms. They were taking various drugs to control their disease as well as daily units of insulin. In addition to type 2 diabetes, they all had high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
Two of the men fasted on alternate days for a full 24 hours, while the third fasted for three days a week. On fast days they were allowed to drink very low calorie drinks, such as tea/coffee, water or broth, and to eat one very low calorie meal in the evening.
Before embarking on their fasting regime, they all attended a 6-hour long nutritional training seminar, which included information on how diabetes develops and its impact on the body; insulin resistance; healthy eating; and how to manage diabetes through diet, including therapeutic fasting.
They stuck to this pattern for around 10 months after which fasting blood glucose, average blood glucose (HbA1c), weight, and waist circumference were re-measured.
All three men were able to stop injecting themselves with insulin within a month of starting their fasting schedule. In one case this took only five days.
Two of the men were able to stop taking all their other diabetic drugs, while the third discontinued three out of the four drugs he was taking. They all lost weight (by 10-18%) as well as reducing their fasting and average blood glucose readings, which may help lower the risk of future complications, say the authors.
Feedback was positive, with all three men managing to stick to their dietary schedule without too much difficulty.
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Post by Elizabeth on Oct 17, 2018 17:24:35 GMT
Yup, fasting is every beneficial otherwise God wouldn't suggest it. It like restarts your system and is a positive outcome.
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Post by PISTON1246 on Oct 17, 2018 18:37:19 GMT
I started taking zyprexa, then I started getting high blood sugar (as high as 400) after 26 years of no diabetes.
I started taking metformin for the purpose of controlling blood sugar. I still had high blood sugar with that drug and started having diarrhea.
I fasted for about a month and my blood sugar was under 200 normally even after eating/drinking sugary food. Now my blood sugar is around 100 and I stopped measuring blood sugar for a few weeks now.
My doctor still reccomends being on metformin.
I don't like my doctor's advice.
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Post by fschmidt on Oct 17, 2018 22:01:24 GMT
My general rule for health is to check what American doctors recommend and then do the opposite.
Fasting is a common sense cure for diabetes. But I would bet that longer fasts are more effective than intermittent fasts because a long fast completely shuts down the insulin system. And American doctors are against longer fasts, so that is almost proof that this is good.
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Post by Elizabeth on Oct 17, 2018 22:17:07 GMT
My general rule for health is to check what American doctors recommend and then do the opposite. Fasting is a common sense cure for diabetes. But I would bet that longer fasts are more effective than intermittent fasts because a long fast completely shuts down the insulin system. And American doctors are against longer fasts, so that is almost proof that this is good. Well said!
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