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Pretty awesome. Of course all the entities supposedly there to help them want to shut it down.

Pretty awesome. Of course all the entities supposedly there to help them want to shut it down.

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[–] • 5 pts

The only people who should be using insulin are the type 1 diabetics, who are a small minority of diabetics in Western society.

I have a family member who ended up with pretty aggressive type 2 diabetes. He was overweight, ate like crap, etc. standard situation which ruined his insulin sensitivity. The doctors had him on a ton of medication and insulin. He started looking into it, and found that there are doctors running clinics that reverse type 2 diabetes, despite the fact that normal medical treatment usually results in type 2 being a chronic disease that worsens over time until it's debilitating or fatal (not to mention very expensive).

The doctors running these clinics have been pointing out that type 2 diabetics still produce insulin, but their cells are insensitive to it... therefore, pumping them full of more insulin to temporarily reduce the blood sugar levels just exposes the cells to higher and higher insulin levels, increasing insensitivity over time. This is why it always gets worse under normal treatment, despite being curable.

The treatment wasn't through any expensive drugs. It was just an extremely low-carb diet, replacing most of those calories with fat (which doesn't require much insulin response to metabolize), regular fasting (which gives your body time to resensitize to insulin), and moderate exercise (which forces the muscles to uptake blood sugar). Weight loss is also recommended if you're overweight, since that can interfere with hormones like insulin.

My family member didn't go to one of these clinics, just followed the advice. He is no longer on insulin (per his doctor; he didn't just stop on his own), and has gone from over double the normal blood sugar level to almost always testing in a non-diabetic range.

If you have type 2, please look into this rather than just paying to waste away on pharmaceuticals without trying anything else.

[–] • 0 pt

Wow, good to know to share with anyone with type 2. I hope I never have that problem.

[–] • 1 pt

In before the open source project is sabotaged by gender politics secretly funded by big pharma.

[–] • 1 pt

People exist to be drained to the maximum by the medical industry and insurance companies.

Cows to be milked while they pay for the milking.

They can't have their own milking machines. So for their safety they have been outlawed.

[–] • 0 pt

Even with these they still use absurdly-expensive insulin.

[–] • 0 pt

Is there an option for diy insulin?

[–] • 0 pt

Apparently it's being worked on, and there's no technical reason for it to be so bankruptingly-expensive.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Came to say basically what grammar_rabbi said.

If you have type 2 diabetes or know someone, it CAN BE REVERSED WITHOUT MEDICATION.

I have been studying this for years. I strongly recommend you research this and don't take my word for it.

The ketogenic diet seeks to mimic what we would normally ate for thousands of years. We would hunt, gather foods such as fruit and grain in the summertime. Winter meant we would often fast, eat large meals of game and what winter veggies we could scrounge. Basically months of no sugar, then summer months of gorging and fattening up.

Fast forward to now and all we eat is sugar which gets stored as fat for use during the "winter" Bread, pasta, beer all turn to sugar in our bloodstream. Our ancestors had none of that during the winter. Basically our body is in summer mode, storing fat for later, constantly.

When you deploy a keto diet, you're putting your body in to what's called ketosis or rather, that state where your body goes from burning sugar for energy to converting your fat stores to energy. I would tell you how well it works but it's just going to sound like a diet craze.

After you've done your research, head on over and input your data. It will spit out what you need to calculate your food intake.

After that, go ahead and download to your phone. You can barcode scan foods with it, or just manually put them in.

From there you can calculate 2 important metrics, your carb and protein intake. Carbs are sugar so it's obvious you're going to limit them, but protein can also kick your body out of ketosis so you have to keep track of that.

There is a sub on reddit dedicated to the subject but I don't recommend that place to anyone.