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In a message dated 11/11/2008 3:08:46 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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I love that book. He discusses diabetes on Pages 103-104. He identifies 4
distinct classes of diabetics. Class 1 are what he calls the "total
diabetic"
and says they would "more or less instantly die without insulin". Classes 2
&
3 are what he deems respectively "severe" and "moderate". The severe --
class 2 -- he claims "has a regular insulin need to keep from losing weight."
Class 3 -- the moderate -- he believes is the most common type and he tells
one
particular patient who he feels this form to "see what happens when you stop
taking insulin" -- in addition to his meat/fat and water regime. The class 4
--
what he deems mild diabetics are the only ones he claims can get their wieght
normal by stopping flour, sugar and alcohol. But there are type 2 diabetics
of normal weight yet with neuropathy caused by too high blood sugars. Modern
docs generally make the diagnosis only after a person has been running their
sugars up for years causing all kinds of damage. My own endo -- a purported
diabetes expert but thankfully I don't see him for diabetes -- claims
anything
under 140 is "normal". No wonder diabetes is such big business!
I forgot to add that nowhere does Donaldson claim that a pure meat/fat and
water diet is a holy grail cure for all forms of diabetes. Rather, only the
"mild diabetics" can be assured normal weight -- but normal weight does not
necessarily mean normal blood glucose. The chances are likely best that it could
mean that for a mild type 2 diabetic but as far as more advanced type 2s or
type 1.5s (LADA) or pure type 1s -- no added glucose lowering meds such as
metformin, glucophage etc (for the type 2s) or insulin ( for some type tpe 2s and
all type 1s) would mean complications or the type 2s and certain death for type
1s. No type 1 can diet their way out of this awful disease. A low-carb
paleo approach is best for all forms, but only a cure from symptoms for milder
forms of diabetes -- certainly no cure for type 1s in the sense they need to take
added insulin or they will die. I'm sorry if I'm beating a dead horse here
but I just buried my father recently and much of his suffering as a diabetic
was caused by his "diabetes specialist". Ironically, it was his cancer doc who
repeatedly told him to drop all grains and all sugar/fruit and replace them
with non-starchy vegetables -- but his diabetes doc kept telling him that was
nonsense and he should stick with the ADA diet. My father felt the diabetes
doc knew more about diabetes and plus he liked the idea of eating basically
whatever he wanted so long as he could shoot himself up with insulin to bring his
sugar down. the addictions to carbos, sweets etc are as strong as heroine or
booze . By the time his kidneys began to fail, he had passed the point of no
return.
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