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EventsA child with type 1 diabetes successfully treated with the paleolithic ketogenic diet
in Type 1 diabetes 
Before and after
Here’s another remarkable success story. A 9-year-old child with type 1 diabetes was put on a very low-carb paleo diet. The result? He no longer needs insulin injections – his body still manages to produce enough insulin by itself – and his blood sugar stays normal.
This of course means the child no longer has any episodes of low blood sugar. He has also improved his health in many ways, improved his fitness, reduced number of infections and improved his eczema.
The child has now been followed for 19 months and is still doing great.
Obviously it’s still likely that the child will eventually need insulin injections, as his body’s number of insulin-producing beta cells may continue to go down.
Most people who have had type 1 diabetes for a long time need insulin injections even on a strict low-carb diet. But they need far lower doses, and it becomes much easier for them to control their blood sugar. See stories below.
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Not if the original provocation that led to the autoimmune destruction of beta cells is permanently removed from the diet. Top suspect - wheat (but ditch the barley, rye, and all other grains as well).
Yes, this might just be "honeymoon phase", but on rare occasions, it's not, and a grain-free KD takes full advantage of what may be a very short time window.
T1D used to be called "childhood onset" diabetes (and likewise T2D used to be called "adult onset"). Both of those descriptions no longer apply; why? Both of these ailments have active, at least slightly different causes, and they are gaining on us. Start hunting for the perp in the pantry.
There is no single thing called "diabetes". We have T1D, T2D, GD, LADA and "T3D" (AD). The top two are T1D and T2D, which are entirely different ailments (but National Affliction Associations like to conflate the two so that they can claim "diabetes is incurable"). Be suspicious of anyone or any site that fails to be specific on every page.
Via diet, T2D is trivially avoided, and easily reversed at the metsyn and pre-diabetic stages. It is reversible after that to the extent that the complications are.
T1D is an entirely different matter.
Also interesting is the diet parallel's Belleview's all-meat trial from way back when (of Vilhjalmur Stefansson fame). This kid is eating a Paleolithic ketogenic diet consisting of only animal meat, fat, offal and eggs with a fat:protein ratio of about 2:1. No vegetables or fruits whatsoever. No artificial sweeteners or vegetable oils. Only small amounts of honey.
My money is also on wheat, but the author's cash is on milk proteins as the likely trigger of the boy's type 1 diabetes.
Interesting factoid from a few years back was that the *rate of increase* in Type 1 was actually higher than the *rate of increase* in Type 2, especially adult onset/LADA which often progresses significantly slower than childhood-onset anyway. I don't know if this is still true. It's commoner nearer the poles than the equator (vitamin D?) and also correlates with celiac (wheat).
It's possible that he may be MODY (Halle Berry) or some other genetic form, either way this is seriously interesting.
I felt then that they were full of it. Never thought you could cure type 1 this way, but knew that you could at least manage symptoms better. I'd love to go find every one of them now and make them read this.
Yet strangely all the best controlled Type 1s are low carbers, from Richard Bernstein to Type 1 Grit. Many of them achieve truly normal A1c (below 6%and often below 5%) and almost flatline BG curves without the "inevitable hypos" HCPs always warn against.
Not a few high carbing Type 1s end up with weight gain and insulin resistance, so-called "double diabetes"
I was taking 48 units of injected insulin at night and was about to be taking mealtime insulin. I threw out my insulin with my doctor's congratulations!
This is the cure that they treated all diabetics with until insulin was invented in 1920. I saw that, on this diet, I did better in the morning sugar without insulin by around 50 points.
blog to learn more...
http://type1alternative.com/2015/12/
Who are the "idiots" anyway: the doctors/scholars who did conduct this study? The people who are commenting?
It seems that you did not take time to read the study:
This boy has been closely followed and his health improved dramatically in a very short time. He still needs to put on more weight obviously.
There is no reason to insult anybody over this well documented case study.