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I was diagnosed with Type 2 in March, immediately started KETO. A1C was 10.5

Three months later June A1C was 5.9 considered Pre-Diabetes.

Three months later Sept A1C was 5.3 and normal.

Originally my Dr. wanted to start me on Metformin and I asked her to give me 3 months to try it by eating right. Thankful she did. I can never go back to eating that way again, or it will come back.

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Great job, but, please, change how you think about the doctor-patient relationship. YOU waited three months on YOUR say-so, not hers.

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I did not wait 3 months before I posted my reply - this substack is cut up into slices, to keep the overall cost down, from the ISP to Steve Kirsch who owns and runs it, but not for the greater good of all - it is more about him, you might say and what he gets out of it, money wise, helped by Wayne and Kevin to do that. By cutting the substack into smaller chunks, Steve pays less for the "size" of it, than he would if it were a whole thing, so you post in one chunk and I post in another and other people post in other chunks and never the two shall meet, unless someone else makes the link between the multiple smaller chunks that this substack represents, when we get to share information, as in this case - in my opinion.

Steve gets to see the overall picture, but we only get to see those within the chunk we are in.

Doctors are Big Pharma representatives and they are given cash payouts, holidays and other "presents" for the amount of chemicals they dispense via Prescription and the chemical company, who they represent, covers their legal costs if something goes "pear shaped" - however, a lot like Amway used to market its products.

When your doctor sees you, he is a business person, just like everyone else and whatever his purpose for being a doctor, his bottom line is still the same as yours, he is in it for the money and nothing else.

When doctors push vaccines, as mine dies and proudly tells me he has had all shots plus boosters and he shakes his head in disbelief that I have not and will not have vaccines, ever, I have to question my doctor patient relationship closely, therefore the only times I see my doctor, is when I absolutely must and that is about once a year - otherwise I live my life illness free with Richard Noakes's free salt water cure for all viruses, which has kept him illness free for over 29 years, bearing in mind that apart from Diabetes, due to our gluttony, we can't get illnesses unless they are viral or injected, like from a mosquito bite, or genetic (bad luck on that).

You should change your thinking about your doctor patient relationship, if your life really matters to you and that will make me much happier, in the long run, I on the other hand am not a fool and my doctor relationship thinking is just fine.

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I somehow replied to you instead of A2savvygirl. My apologies.

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I have been on Metformin for most of the past 22 years and derivatives of it - Metformin is also supposed to slow down the aging body clock and I can vouch for that, I appear to be much younger than I actually am now and it is the Metformin which reduces the sugar, from the foods I eat - I only drink water now to flush my body out constantly and I have some hopes of reaching my 90's, by fair means or foul, somehow or other, because we are only here for this life and it is surprisingly short, when you look back over the years which have magically passed and discover that you have aged faster than you think you could.

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I'm the exception. Been on met forever, or close, and I look older than the hills. Got the extended-release stuff and the side effects are mild, if that. But it doesn't make every one of us not look our age +. Jus' sayin.'

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Hi Diana, if you exposed yourself early in life to lots of the sun, then you destroyed your skin from early on and you can't recover that - Gee - you sure had a tough life - sort of thing. I used to be a nudist at previous times of my life and I looked at how the regular nudists on the beach looked and how their skin looked after constant sun exposure and of course skin cancers and I thought do I want this for myself and my answer was no - so I stopped being a nudist in fact, even if I still was and am one, in my mind and thus my body has not aged as quickly as those who did not do as I have done, did. I still enjoy the looks of a nude body, especially of the sex opposite to mine and i remember with much clarity the nudist of the opposite sex to me, who was standing talking to me, while standing in front of me, when I was sitting on the sand of this particular beach - they appeared to be aroused and being at eye level, I got the whole box and dice so to speak and I was not complaining, they "belonged" to someone else, as it happened!!

Life sucks sometimes, don't you agree. Someone once asked me what it felt like to get old and my answer was nothing, I still feel the same way as I did when I was a kid, the only thing which has changed is my external appearance and the internal things that occur as we get older, by whatever degree!! Much laughter!! young at heart is me

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I don't mind being old -- as an activist I'm always awed I made it this far! But for those who do get tender over aging, it's vital to know some of us are exceptions.

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Me either - good to have you on board. I am 76 on 02.02.2023 - me too, that I made it this far - when I meet someone in the flesh, I don't look at the outside, but the inside and how they have developed their personality from the inside out and that is what attracts me to them. Met a female once who was beyond beautiful on the outside and she had a personality which was about as thin as a piece of paper - living off your looks, does not endear you, to me.

Much Laughter!!

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Once you cease being insulin resistant via keto-carnivore, and intermittent fasting your cells stop ignoring the insulin, and you can eat "regular" foods in moderation, but obviously if you eat all the high carb junk you used to eat before in the same volumes the problem will return. Well done for avoiding the pharmacy route. If you add eating meats with fatty content, butter etc then that will benefit your body as they higher in Omega3, also get processed cooking oil like corn oil, vegetable oil, canola oil, out of your kitchen cupboards they are inflammatory to your system being too high in Omega6, and increase your risk of heart conditions and stroke via elevating blood pressure as they make the blood sticky. Coconut oil, Olive oil, and butter are the way to go.

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Actually diabetes is not a disease. This condition actually shows that the autophagy mechanism is happening. Just keep the fluid balance will improve on its own without any medication.

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That is like saying that vaccines don't kill you - Richard Noakes's free salt water cure, which he have been pushing online since the beginning of Covid, if not before Covid - him 29 years never had a virus of any sort, is now confirmed by Augusta University, and an Indian doctor and Steve Kirsch himself, who was told about it by Richard Noakes at the beginning of this pandemic, but Kirsch chose to ignore Richard Noakes's advice, in favor of anything with a price tag on it, more fool him - as events have now proved: Simple nasal wash ‘reduces COVID-19 severity’

A simple nasal wash with mild saline water can help prevent hospitalisation and deaths from COVID-19, according to research. Copyright: Rillke (CC BY-SA 3.0). This image has been cropped.

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· Nasal washes with saline water flush viruses out of the sinuses

· COVID-19 viruses can cause lasting damage on entering the lungs

· Technique originated with Indian yoga practices and is easy to use

By: Sanjeet Bagcchi

[NEW DELHI] Simple nasal washes with mild saline water can prevent hospitalisation and deaths from COVID-19, if applied twice daily following a positive diagnosis, according to research led by the US-based Augusta University.

Reducing the amount of virus entering the body cuts the severity of the disease, says the study published September in the Ear, Nose & Throat Journal. It found that nasal washes conducted within 24 hours of diagnosis can prevent the virus from entering the lungs and possibly causing permanent or fatal damage to patients.

Amy Baxter, corresponding author of the study affiliated with the department of emergency medicine at Augusta University, says that extra hydration of the sinuses makes them function better. “If you have a contaminant, the more you flush it out, the better you are able to get rid of dirt, viruses and anything else,” she explained.

“If you have a contaminant, the more you flush it out, the better you are able to get rid of dirt, viruses and anything else”

Amy Baxter, Augusta University

ACE2 receptors in cells — which bind to the spike protein of the virus resulting in COVID-19 infection — are plentiful in the nasal cavity, lungs and mouth and a nasal saline wash can help prevent the virus from attaching to receptors, they said.

The researchers say nasal washes are inexpensive and safe and can be administered at home using half a teaspoon each of salt and baking soda in a cup of boiled or distilled water.

“In areas remote to healthcare, this simple intervention can reduce the likelihood of severe disease,” said Baxter.

The research involved comparing data from high-risk COVID-19 patients, such as those with obesity, hypertension or diabetes and aged over 55, who had carried out nasal washes, with datasets of 3 million COVID-19 cases from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The researchers found that only 1.3 per cent of COVID-19 patients who underwent nasal wash required hospitalisation, suggesting that they were more than eight times less likely to be hospitalised compared with the 11 per cent in the CDC dataset.

Richard Noakes recommends one heaped teaspoon of salt in a mug of clean warm tap water, cup a hand and sniff or snort it up your nose, spitting out anything which comes down into your mouth. A burning sensation, you have a virus infection, so do 3 times daily or more often, until the soreness feeling goes away and it feels like you are flushing your head out with plain water. After the pain subsides (2-3 minutes) blow your nose out with toilet paper and flush away, washing your hands afterwards - Richard has been doing this cure (1 heaped teaspoon of iodine salt) to himself for over 29 years and he never gets external to the body illnesses of any sort - can you imagine being that well and for so long - perhaps because he uses a 50% increase on the above article, he also has a much better result than the above article did. I am aware that the FLCCC also have a weaker version too.

Let me put that into perspective - vaccines were totally unnecessary and nobody had to be killed or injured from the vaccines, or the ongoing unnatural effects on the inside of your body, caused by the synthetic content of the vaccines which is patented, as is your vaccinated body, like a GMO product, because once in, it can't be taken out and which continue to occur noticed or unnoticed, whether you like it or not, along with a whole raft of other issues, both legal and not - if that does not make your blood boil, I don't know what will - the alternative being Richard's stronger 3 minute salt water snort or sniffle to remain virus free and forever!!

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I agree that vaccination is the least rational idea in handling a pandemic. But I also disagree about giving salt water. It causes the mucosal tissue to become drier and easily injured. That is the nature of osmosis.

Viruses that have entered the body, such as in vaccinations, cannot be overcome in this way. For me, the most rational is to utilize the autophagy mechanism.

But autophagy has the side effect of diabetes. This is what most people don't understand. Diabetes is actually a condition when the autophagy mechanism occurs. So it is impossible to treat and should not be treated. Just control the fluid balance.

HOW TO PREVENT LONG COVID https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/how-to-prevent-long-covid-7e7e556b

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Please explain (1) how diabetes shows autophagy and (2) fluid balance in this context and its connection to diabetes.

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Diabetes Is Not a Disease https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/diabetes-is-not-a-disease-8cfd1f16

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Interesting read Doctor. Especially liked, "No longer should research focus on finding super anti-oxidants, but triggering the acceleration of the autophagy process." Keeping my fluids up on my mainly low carb, often Keto / OMAD diet as suggested in your new article. https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/ketogenic-diet-slim-down-or-suddenly-die-2d614dfa I'd like to read some more commentary on this article and hope to read more from you in the future. Thank you!

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I love it when the docs catch up with the rest of us.

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Intermittent fasting is a LIFE diet. It has proven to be the best way of eating for my 87 year old mom and my 66 year old self for the last 6 years. Dr Mercola was where I learned of it. Not only weight loss and management but so much energy and all round health.

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I strongly agree. My wife and I have been intermittent fasting for the last year and a half (generally skipping breakfast). Although we were never diabetic, we have lost weight. At 69, I can now fit in my Navy flight jacket which I was issued in my 20s.

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Congratulations Doctor! Wonderful news! I will be sharing.

Please note “Wild” salmon and shrimp- not farm raised- farm raised is filled with Omega 6, not Omega 3. Need that 2:1 ratio!

It would be wonderful in our newly forming society if nutrition was taught in schools.

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Dr. Marik - I wish I could get my brother, Larry, to take the time to watch your video or read your substack. I wonder if you might be willing to have a 5 min phone conversation with him - you know him. I think you've been in contact with him - he's an MD (even a PhD) - editor of the AAPS journal, etc. Please if you have time, talk to him for 5 min about getting his type II diabetes cured. He's so busy doing his sham peer review cases that he doesn't take the time for things that are so vitally important to his own health.

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Sep 20, 2022Liked by FLCCC Alliance

Hallelujah! He just sent me an email saying he watched your video. Furthermore he says he's committed to making the lifestyle change and has already started and his blood sugar is already showing signs of improvement. He's also ordered 2 books off of Amazon and is going to give intermittent fasting a try. So thankful!

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Wow! That is great news

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So typical. Some people "know so much" that they hardly know anything. Doctor, heal thyself.

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Sep 21, 2022Liked by FLCCC Alliance

Thank you Dr. Marik Out of such catastrophic suffering and death comes new life and a revolution in being. We'd all go back two years and stop all of it from happening in a hearbeat, but here we are. There used to be a poster: "What if they gave a war and nobody came?" So what if they gave a poisonous medical food disease complex and we all just blow them off and flourish?

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Richard Noakes's suggestion is to find an electric cattle fence and put both hands on the live wire, several times and the jolt should kill off the nanotechnology which was injected into your body when you had the vaccines, along with the 99% Graphene Oxide in the Lipid packages, which did not contain any mRNA and never have, because it was getting the nanotechnology into you, that this was all about and never "Covid" -both are a bio-weapon, designed eventually to kill you - I estimated that each of you have a base line of 2.22% per second, for the rest of your life of being selected for extermination, hopefully the above electric fence jolt, will kill the nanotechnology which can be found by putting your iPhone on your arm, in Bluetooth and reading your body specific 10 digit number there - if that goes, so theoretically has the nanotechnology and parasites injected into you and hopefully your body is restored to prior to vaccines injection and you die naturally of old age - if it does not work for you, there are other ways, including finally the Police Phaser which is probably the strongest belt of all

That said, those responsible for our extermination need to be hunted down and executed, starting with your politicians who signed your lives away to Big Pharma for their 12 pieces of Gold, like Judas!!

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Yes, good post. I cured myself of medication induced Type ! diabetes with similar strategies. There is quite a bit of information about Type II Diabetes and diet but not nearly enough about Type 1. There are physicians who have cured themselves of Type I by rigorously limiting carbohydrates. I no longer take insulin at all.

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Go for the wild blueberries and personally I'm not sure why you would limit them? Raspberries and blackberries are great too. They also help with weight loss.

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Sugar

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Wrong. Sugar in whole fruit is NOT A PROBLEM. I mean who gets fat from eating fruit?

The phenols make blueberries the #1 superfood (IMO).

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Fruit is fattening and high in fructose. Bears eat fruit to fatten up for winter.

Fructose leads to fatty liver, just like alcohol.

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Yes! Some Cholesterol trivia..... Fructose is the only food that always goes directly into LDL cholesterol. (I figured it out with wikipedia)

If your fasting triglycerides are above 1.0 then you probably have "bad" LDL (oxidized/glycated) according to Ken Sikaris's presentations. To lower triglycerides eat less sugars AND fruit.

I second vote for Dr. Jason Fung helping beat T2 diabetes in 90 days or so.

wrt Fasting for autophagy, I recommend learning from original researcher Valter Longo and his FMD.

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Dr. Jason Fung is a great source for this.

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Your stupid.

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While we are addressing each other’s intelligence, it’s spelled, “you’re.” Regardless, it makes perfect evolutionary sense for an animal whose diet largely consists of seasonal berries to fatten up as much as possible for the cold season.

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Yes indeed , it is great for bears. Humans shouldn't do it all year, and especially not five times per day.

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So, that's it. Thanks for filling me in. It's not just that you are ignorant of fructose metabolism.

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Fructose most certainly can be a problem especially to T2 diabetics. Your blood sugar levels are affected by fruit. Personally, I avoid fruit like the plague because I am pre-diabetic.

There are healthier options for me, such as eggs or red meat. They don't spike my blood sugar. Some T2 diabetics have no problem with berries *in moderation*, others do.

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>>who gets fat from eating fruit

I mean, pet skunks certainly do

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I agree for the most part blueberries a superfood. But I also believe to much sugar can be a problem.

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Superfoods are BS.

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It can be, particularly for high sugar fruits. Note that bananas were on the 10 top "bad" list.

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Sep 20, 2022·edited Nov 1, 2022

Any sweet fruit is going to be high in fructose. Berries are not as bad if you limit them, as stated in the article. The thing is, if you have a disease state, like diabetes you have to really cut the carbs severely to get results. A young healthy person can often eat garbage for decades and get away with it until middle age arrives. The point here is to reverse disease, not eat what you want.

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Sometimes I just chomp down on a tomato. Not much fructose in that!

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Sep 20, 2022·edited Nov 1, 2022

Tomatoes are pretty harmless. You could eat as much as you want.

Unless you have some problem with them, which you and I don't.

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You too.

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Exactly.

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Also see Dr. Jason Fung's take on the topic.

Steve Kirsch might want to hear about this (he has the condition), maybe you can forward it if you have a way of communicating with him (I posted mentioning Fung in his substack threads, but don't know whether he saw any of it)

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The only thing I consume on your bad list is ice cream most nights and I consume everything on your good list except Heavy Cream with coffee. I will try it. Currently I use Half&Half and International Delight Sweetened Creamer.

Since I'm a retired Family Doc I would like to make a comment on your BP meds. I started out on the same two meds you have. After 25 years I developed Angioedema and had to quit Altace. I got off of amlodipine 5 or so years after that so I switched to Doxazosin which IMHO is the best of that Class plus a low dose of Hydralazine. Because I was on so many BP meds to keep control, I went to a Top Nephrologist at UF and found out that I had Hyperaldosteronism and I think there is a chance you have it too.

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Have you ever tried Rebel Ice cream? It is zero added sugar and is made with healthy ingredients. I avoid any sweets for the most part because of a sugar addiction, but that might be a healthy option for others.

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Steak, lots of eggs, butter, throw away all the canola oil and of course no more processed foods. August 2020 I was at an appalling A1c of 14.3 (when I didn't even know what that meant). Eyesight diminishing and constantly running to the bathroom the first indications. Now I'm down 100+ pounds, A1c in the 4s to low 5s. No glasses required, feel great and will never turn back. Went low carb, keto, then intermittent fasting, OMAD. Recommend youtube channels - Low Carb Down Under, Beat Diabetes and Drs. Berg and Ekberg for help in this area. Off to climb a mountain today. Would add learn the very easy way to make your own mayo and sauerkraut. The Food Pyramid and government guidelines/suggestions are garbage. Now it's simply a matter of time before we know if Fauci or Ancel Keys has caused more damage to humanity.

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That's great. Well known in the wellness community, but better late than never :D

Even better IMHO , see inline comments

- I do take a few supplements, including Omega 3, spermidine, resveratrol, melatonin and Vitamin D3. In 12 weeks, I lost 35 lbs.

>>> need to take vit K together with D3 - see Weston A Price on this key combination discovered last century re spring grass and cod liver oil - explained now as Vit D3 + K3

ALSO: vit D is a lot less efficient than exposure to sunlight (early morning best) -> vit D in ACTIVE form all over your skin ( see Mercola's archive for more info)

Here’s my top 10 list of foods you should be eating:

1. Fish – especially Alaskan salmon

>>> ONLY wild caught salmon, usually Alaskan or Western US/ Canada AND wild sardines in EVO - no other fish are safe

2. All vegetables (including avocados, beans, broccoli, spinach, etc.)

>>> need to be organic or at least not heavily sprayed, best source often are local farmer's markets - spinach and celery if not organic are very badly sprayed so avoid if not organic

3. Chicken breast (free range, no hormones, no antibiotics)

>>> better: really free range, and slow grown - costs more, but really better value overall. Most "free range" are just glorified decent not factory chickens. Look for Heritage or Red Label if you can

4. Nuts – (almonds, brazil nuts, cashews, pistachios)

5. Peanut butter, chia seeds - Peanut butter is a no no ( do your own research )

6. Greek yogurt + pre-probiotics (not sweetened)

>>> any yoghurt from grass fed milk, NOT homogenized

7. Meat (grass fed, no hormones) – avoid processed meats

Yes

8. Blueberries (limit volume)

9. Grapefruit (limit volume)

10. Coffee (with heavy cream or coconut oil; Stevia - no sugar or artificial sweeteners)

YES no milk! creates indigestible mass in stomach

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What do we do for calcium?

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any particular manufacturer of spermadine and resveratrol?

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So happy for you, Doc! You’ve inspired by your courage for 2+ years, now you inspire by your discipline/commitment to healing yourself! Way to go!

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I appreciate your story. I've been told several times in my long life as a type 2 diabetic that I have "reversed" diabetes or even have "cured" myself. It isn't quite that easy. And it isn't that permanent, not necessarily.

I rocked 4.5 A1Cs -- back when I smoked! Intermittent fasting -- actually time-restricted eating -- is excellent for diabetes. I use Mercola's recommended glycine in my morning coffee, along with coconut oil. But I was a fool and got a TDaP shot in 2015 that left me with random allergies and IBS-D. Not pleasant. And IBS-D requires a few more carbs to avoid painful hunger! Diabetes doesn't actually reverse, though with low enough BG numbers, beta cells CAN begin to recreate, increase. I started out with limited beta cell function, at diagnosis, and high triglycerides, and am better, much, but no longer get 4.4 or 4.5 A1Cs (and I never go low, my liver loves me).

How we fare as type 2s depends on so much. I seem to be really sensitive to glyphosate, and do not have the money for full-on organic, nor is full-on organic what it used to be! The government has loosened the standards and pushed little farmers out of business by upping the proof fees.

Best to you. And best to your readers who need to know to try, but also to understand it's not always this simple.

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Type 2 diabetes is essentially a disease produced by "excess" carbohydrates.

The idea that the vast majority of doctors still don`t understand this whilst they direct their patients to "low glycemic " food groups and watch the blood glucose stay the same/get worse..is beyond extraordinary...

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"Low glycemic" is still miles ahead of the Food Tomb where carbs make up the majority of intake! Low glycemic and glycemic load were studied heavily within the low-carb community, especially by Bernstein followers, way back decades ago when my fam called me a professional diabetic because I was on-line so often. Study I did, and I've lived to be old. I still fight locally against the dieticians' low-fat/ high "complex" carb recommendations. Once saliva hits it, the "complex" carb is rendered a simple sugar, no more, no less. They used to just let us die, expect us to die, kinda hope we did since we must've brought it on ourselves -- look at all the diet talk here! I used to get kicked off the Bernstein list regularly because I wasn't an acolyte of the god of self-starvation. The Covid death and Euthanizing Project (for the stubborn oldsters) reminded me of the treatment of diabetics when dx'ed in the 90s.

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