Can we avoid or even reverse or Type 2 diabetes (TD2)?
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Type 2 diabetes is a condition in which there is a high level of glucose in the blood stream despite the pancreas producing insulin to bring it down. High blood glucose has a number of serious health consequences; and the problem in type 2 diabetes is not a deficiency of the glucose lowering hormone insulin, but rather a problem with the body’s response to insulin- a condition called insulin resistance. Insulin resistance is also feature of the “Metabolic Syndrome”. In type 2 diabetes, at least in the early stages, there are high levels of both insulin and glucose in the blood stream.
A common misconception is that type 2 diabetes only affects the overweight and obese. Many doctors now believe, myself included, that type 2 diabetes is characterised by an inability to metabolize or handle the huge quantities of carbohydrates that we eat nowadays. Many of us are just eating way too many carbohydrates for our body’s metabolism to handle – too many carbohydrates in processed food particularly. This overload of carbohydrates is overwhelming our hormones which control the blood glucose level such as insulin and overwhelming our hormones which control hunger such as leptin. This leads to insulin resistance, high blood glucose and high levels of insulin as well as continuous hunger and weight gain.
So how do we avoid type 2 diabetes?
Well, Professor Tim Noakes in the book the Real Meal Revolution gives the scientific evidence that supports the idea that we are eating too many carbohydrates. He explains in this book that although we need adequate quantities of protein and fats in our diet, we don’t actually need carbohydrates at all, because, our liver can make glucose in large quantities if needed from dietary fat and proteins through a process called “gluconeogenesis”. So if there is no obligatory need for carbohydrates in our food, we don’t need to eat them in the quantities that we are – currently doing. Insulin resistance leads to fat accumulation in the liver and pancreas, and this then leads on to diabetes.
So if type 2 diabetes is caused by eating too many carbohydrates, it would seem logical to suggest that one way at least to avoid this condition is to eat fewer carbohydrates – and that means from any source.
In this excellent book, Diabetes Unpacked, Dr David Unwin a GP in the UK describes the spectacular results he has achieved by advising people with type 2 diabetes to eat fewer carbohydrates. Many diabetics in his practice have been able to reduce or even eliminate their medication and put their diabetes into remission.
All carbohydrates even carbohydrates that you might consider healthy such as wholemeal bread, baked potatoes and whole meal pasta are digested and they all enter the blood as glucose. So the logic is this: if type 2 diabetes is characterised by too much glucose in the blood stream, it would make sense to eat fewer carbohydrates to avoid the condition as well as to reverse it. A great resource in addition to these 2 books is dietdoctor.com. This is a website that gives information about how to eat a low carbohydrate diet based on real food. It gives the scientific background to a low carbohydrate way of eating, practical advice and recipes as well as interviews with international experts. So, in summary, type 2 diabetes is characterised by too much glucose in the blood stream; all carbohydrates enter the blood stream as glucose (mainly); and it seems sensible to advise people with type 2 diabetes to eat fewer carbohydrates. In fact, it has been suggested by Professor Tim Noakes, that all of us, could improve our health and avoid T2D in many cases by eating real food, which is naturally low in carbohydrates.
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