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Can You Reverse Heart Disease or type 2 diabetes with diet?

  • 01-04-2016 3:34am
    #1
    joeprivate
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    Has anybody on boards successfully reduced the symptoms of heart disease or type 2 diabetes to a point where they were able to eliminate most or all of there medications.
    If so what diet did you follow?
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  • #2
    Speedwell
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    Depends. I was able to come off three of four medications within six months of my initial diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes, and the only reason I kept on the fourth (Glucophage) was that I also have another condition that it is the standard treatment for (PCOS). I did this with a strict low-carb, low-calorie regimen (note, this is not a low fat diet, I used strict portion control). In fact I panicked and ate little else besides almonds and apples for the first three weeks (not recommended). Several years later, I am still off the three meds, don't really diet at all except for staying away from sugar and trying not to cause blood sugar spikes in general, and still maintain great control of my blood sugar levels. Never had heart disease so I can't speak to that. It is likely that I will lose the diabetes after I lose the excess weight I carry (partly due to the PCOS). My GP and I are working on it; I have a "resistant metabolism" and have been known to gain weight on 800 calories a day.

    My brother in Texas also has Type 2 diabetes (his numbers are a lot worse than mine), is not overweight at all, has high cholesterol, does nothing special with his diet (in fact he's a bit of a pig), controls his blood sugar levels mostly through exercise though he also has rheumatoid arthritis. It is remotely possible that he actually has adult-onset Type 1 diabetes, since it is known that diabetes and RA are related disorders. He takes only Glucophage for his diabetes, less than I do in fact, though I don't know what effect his RA medications have. He uses a lot of fish oil as well.

    I think it really goes to show that even though we are full siblings born two years apart with the same diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes, our bodies are different enough that what works for him won't work for me, and vice versa.


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