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in Diabetes 
In medical school, Dr. Peter Attia learned that type 2 diabetes was a chronic irreversible disease. But is that really true?
Virta Health, a tech company, is actually reversing the disease in patients, using a simple dietary modification (i.e. low carb) and tech-enabled coaching, and documenting their results.
Here are comments from journalists, investors and advisors:
- Dr. Peter Attia: Is Type 2 Diabetes Reversible at Scale?
- Venrock: Virta Can Reverse Type 2 Diabetes for Many
- Medium: Virta Health and the Hard Right Thing
- Forbes: Can Silicon Valley Cure Diabetes With Low Carbs And High Tech?
The ending of the last article above is fantastic. The journalist acknowledges that the results are really promising with people revolutionizing their health, cutting their need for medications by a lot and generally feeling great. But how will they keep it up, asks the journalist, when donuts are delicious?
It’s more than a little condescending. Or perhaps it’s the carb addiction speaking.
I believe hundreds of millions of people with type 2 diabetes would successfully decide to avoid a slow, medicated and painful death, when they know they have the option. Instead, they can choose a good life, with purpose.
There’s more to life, after all, than donuts.
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We still don't know, or you haven't asked or have but then didn't tell us, how many here are still on their diets over five years. Where's the report Doc, or are you afraid we might learn something you don't want us to know.
I celebrate that those with Diabetes 2 can get it under control. But, when the plant leaves the hothouse, how's it doing? Not six months later, but a real reporting of anyone low-carbing for more than five years, and their numbers, and also a report from everyone you've featured here in celebration. It's been said people can lose weight, and it seems, control meds and numbers (to some extent) with weight loss. But are they still there vis a vis Diabetes 2?
You really have to give your members and the public your numbers.
I ate a high-carb diet for 62 years, extra high-carb vegetarian for 43 years, and it was not merely my glucose control that was damaged. Do all the co-morbities have to resolve, too, before you pronounce me cured? In that case, not in this lifetime. Atherosclerosis doesn't reverse easily if at all. I have no doubt that the atherosclerosis built up by all that heavy carb eating is still with me. I've been eating ketogenic for 4+ years now and may continue for life but will my arteries become clean as a whistle? I don't thing it's realistic to even dream of that.
But return to a high carb lifestyle? You're crazy. I smoked too, and quit. So should I wish to smoke again? Just to see how long it takes to get a smoking related disease? Aside from blood glucose control, LCHF has given me so much more. Health, of course, but also convenience. I can work or travel all day or days without the inconvenience of food breaks. That's freedom!
High carb is high-risk behavior. I survived the first time around. Driving a motorbike at high speed, casual unprotected sex, visiting a combat zone to see what it's like. These are high-risk behaviors, too. Do I need them? No way.
Not saying it's easy to do low carb long term. Just like it's not easy to give up other rewarding addictive things, like smoking. But it's certainly possible.
And giving up in advance just because it's not easy... well, at least that should be the decision of actual person with diabetes, right? Nobody should decide for someone else what they can or cannot do.
What diabetes educators do now – discounting low carb because of perceived difficulties – is as bad as if we encouraged people to keep smoking, saying it's too hard to quit anyway, don't even attempt to quit, as "smoking is delicious".
I recommend you don't do that. Why would you
want to ingest glucose at a high rate? ...to find
out what? And what would you do if you find
out something? And what if you have a false
positive, i.e. physiological insulin resistance?
Not worth it.
You can always do HbA1c or fasting glucose or
fasting insulin. They'll tell you all you need to
know.
I foolishly did a Kraft test a few years ago and it
kicked my butt. Glucose is nothing to mess
around with.
I suggest you look around the website, and maybe watch a few videos. There are a lot of examples.
The problem is that society is against this lifestyle, so that's why a majority of the people quit. It's not because they want to, it's because social pressures telling people "This is a bad idea", force them to quit.
The solution is there, and proven. Now we need the establishment to hop on board, and end the obesity crisis.
Why not lchf and time restricted feeding and fecal transplant? Science may make t2 a worry no longer
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