I saw this on Facebook this morning, I had to smile
The new study conducted by Virta Health shows dramatic improvements in type 2 diabetes with a low-carb diet. Many patients were even able to completely quit diabetes medications, suggesting that type 2 diabetes is highly reversible:
âIt is something we would never previously have known was possible. I was so blown over by the results and we should now think about using this approach as a standard of care as it outperforms current treatment.
â Dr. Sarah Hallbergâ
Iâm happy to read that limiting carbs is now seen as beneficial to people with T2D. I just wish they would not over-reach with the reversing diabetes meme. Reversing the symptoms of diabetes is no small thing. Why donât they stop at that?
Everything today is about sensationalism. Eating good food in reasonable amounts and exercising isnât sexy or fast enough. People donât want to hear the truth. They want something quick and easy. Sad.
Have I told you lately how much I hate the âReversingâ and âCure/Curedâ crap??
At the last diabetes seminar I attended during the Q/A at the end the pharmacist, DE, and Dietitian all told everyone that there isnât a cure, that you canât reverse. That you can only try gain and maintain control. That once a diabetic youâll always be one. When will fools ever learn??
Yes. VERY irritating â and, IMO dangerous. It furthers the shame and blame game â after all, even IF you didnât get T2D by your own actions, itâs âclearlyâ in your hands to âreverse it.â Still âyourâ fault!
Worst part: The best known strategies to date donât work to even effectively manager Type 2 diabetes is some people â and those people are NOT an insignificant percentage of all people with T2D!
No matter what we do itâs going to be our fault. And when we manage to get into ânormalâ ranges and somehow maintain that for a few years âyouâre curedâ. You donât have anything to worry about. You donât have it anymore. What do you mean you have to still go see a podiatrist every three months because of your feet, eye doctor once a year etc? Youâre cured.
Yeah right. Iâve had questions similar to that by people who has it running in family. Unable to understand how it could affect feet, isnât that a leg thing? Oh, you mean you still have to watch what you eat, do reads, count carbs? But youâre cured, you donât need to worry about anything. And again, coming from people that diabetes runs in family.
Way too many actually believe the âreversalsâ, âcuresâ and whatever else is there. And theyâre more than glad to offer the advice because they saw on television, read in a magazine, heard of a radio program all about diabetes. Ah, okay. Nice to hear that. Wait a minute. I just saw someone that could use your help with something else you were talking about. Right over there.
Sad thing is that Iâve had comments like that from people with relatives that have diabetes. And when I explain things that yes, my A1Câs are in ânormalâ ranges but still have diabetes and have to keep an eye on what I can/cannot do I get those âheadlight in the eyesâ look. Lightâs on but nobody home time.
And when trying to explain why I have to go every three months to see a podiatrist and that I have nerve damage they canât understand that I can have that in the feet that they thought always in the legs. Or they canât understand why I can eat things that they thought a diabetic shouldnât. Donât understand that Iâm able to do so in moderations and not so often as I would like to. Get that âoh, you canât have this can you?â
Or the âhow many calories are you eating?â Beats me. I have enough counting carbs, sodium, sugars and what have you. Donât have time for calories too. Then I smile and walk off as they try to figure that one out. Cruel maybe but hey what the hell. Besides itâs true.
But thereâs so much misinformation out there that itâs not even funny. Stuff that has been there for years and people should have had that cleared up in minds years ago but still there and people believing it for truth.
And then we have the âfood copsâ. Bad enough we have at home but then you have to put up with on the outside as well. Sometimes makes you want to grab a sign and wear it saying, " I know what Iâm doing, leave me be."
And itâs not really giving anything away to mention that people are forever trying to join as members here who donât have diabetes and are just trying to advertise their own pet âcureâ, which usually requires you to spend moneyâwith them, of course. You generally donât see those because the Administration Team blocks them before they can clutter the site with their snake oil propaganda.
Thatâs good. I hate âsnake oilâ and their sales pitches. Family though can be some of the worst âDiabetes Policeâ though. And although meaning well they can try sooo harrrd to help you âcontrolâ it. And when you do have under control and maintaining sometimes not enough when they see whatâs happening to someone else. So worried it will happen to you, although you say you have the DEâs, Doctors, Dietitian and yourself very happy with the A1C reads and your daily reads itâs hard to make understand that youâre fine not to worry.
Nor easy to explain why youâll high reads with something then itâll go down and look good for a while and then shoot back up in high reads again. Or eat something that will give you good reads one time and next time very exact same thing will give you a high read. Told her that itâs like that scene in Forrest Gump with the box of chocolates. That you donât know what youâre going to get until you do the test. Itâs a surprise most of the times. Didnât like that nor when I told her what the dietitian said about being diabetic that itâs going to happen.
But those snake oil pushers Iâve seen in a lot of places. Hate it. When I was first dx I had someone that sent me an email with a link in it for something that was from an âall naturalâ site. Someplace that he got his oils etc from.
I read the ingredients that they did list(made me wonder what was left out) and most said never tested on humans or tested once. Was guaranteed to lower glucose. Told him thanks for the thought but I was sticking with what I was given and go that route.
