Diabetes

Pretty sure that 18:6 intermittent fasting would cure type 2 diabetes. The 6 hours of ketosis you would get from that would give your beta cells a compete rest, and they would start to restore themselves.

Just 3 to 6 months of 18:6 should do the trick, especially if your diet is nutritious and at a reasonable level of calories.

There has been a lot of research concerning beta cell regeneration because they know that that would basically cure diabetes, but so far, that’s a complete failure. Diabetes happens when the beta cells die, so that the pancreas cannot produce adequate levels of insulin.

Beta cells work the opposite of muscles. When you really work muscle, it gets stronger, but when you overwork a beta cell, it dies.

I don’t think you need a ketogenic diet with 18:6 intermittent fasting because you get the ketosis from the fasting, but a diet that’s moderate in carbohydrates and somewhat higher in fat would be a good choice. You don’t want excessive carbohydrates, which would spike insulin, but fat has no impact on spiking insulin.

Not A Dope

How to Beat Diabetes

And even simpler way to beat diabetes is 18:6 intermittent fasting. The last 6 hours of that 18-hour fasting period — because you haven’t eaten any carbohydrates at all — you have extremely low glucose levels, verging on hypoglycemia, and therefore much greater insulin sensitivity, which is the opposite of insulin resistance — the root cause of diabetes.

A month of this regiment and you won’t need to take any Metformin.

But doctors don’t tell you any of this. They just prescribe Metformin. For doctors, “medicine” comes down to pills and prescriptions. Duh.

Binders and Toxins

Overcoming Diabetes

A healthy plant-based diet will turn around pre-diabetic and diabetic conditions in a matter of just weeks. Not resolve these conditions, but seriously improve them, and definitely move the person in the right direction — without drugs. Compex carbohydrates and lots of fiber, not much meat or oil. But this would require no processed food at all.

One would need to go radically from the SAD diet to a healthy plant-based diet overnight. That would be the challenge. And most people don’t have the insight into nutrition to be able to do that, and then there is the issue of having the willpower to do it, which is also problematic.

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5-Day Mimicking Diet

I’m on day 3 of the 5-day mimicking diet. 800 calories per day, except the first day I went without food entirely.

Focus on the mimicking diet is minimizing protein so to maximize the amount of autophagy. Less than 20 grams of protein per day, except that first day was 0. From Longo’s book The Longevity Diet.

Really want the body to have to scavenge for protein wherever it can find it — all those wayward (and cancerous?) cells.

Longo says a healthy person should do this 3 times per year. Someone with diabetes much more often.

I knew I could do this because I did one similar 800 calorie day before and it wasn’t difficult. I thought I could boost the benefit by not eating that first day, which I knew I could do because I’ve done 48-hour fasts before.

Those more strenuous fasts one has to work one’s way up to them imo. Not sure I want to do a 5-day water fast because I do notice with a 48-hour fast that my energy level goes down significantly. One must feel very depleted after 5 days with no nutrition — really don’t want to experience that level of fatigue.

Insulin Spikes

Sugar Model

The diabetes sugar model I have in my head goes something like this. When a person eats refined sugar or simple carbs, this spikes glucose in the blood, which spikes the insulin level so that that sugar can be absorbed by the cells. But if this happens often enough, the metabolism reacts to protect the cells from being flooded with so much sugar by creating insulin resistance — the insulin receptors in the cells stop functioning, that is, sugar gets stopped at the gate. This means that the excess sugar remains in the blood vessels. Now you have dangerously high levels of sugar in the blood. Here comes diabetes 2, a self-induced disease.

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