If a person follows the doctor’s orders, can he be fully cured of type 2 diabetes. In other words, will his pancreas eventually start functioning like it used to? By the way, what makes the pancreas stop functioning?
Also, are there any meds for diabetes that don’t involve needles?
Many newly diagnosed type 2 diabetics consider them selfs cured. If you mean can they ever eat sugar like when they were a kid, then no. If you mean living the rest of their lives without drugs or complications, then yes. The pancreas becomes inflamed due to over producing insulin in an attempt to keep up with your ever increasing insulin resistance. Every carbohydrate you consume starting even before birth, moves you toward insulin resistance. Once the resistance becomes so great that the pancreas can not keep up, you are considered diabetic. If you avoid carbohydrates you accomplish two things. First, you give your pancreas a rest, and second, you give your resistant cells a rest. When you give the cells a break from insulin, they actually become sensitive again. After many years of extra insulin, either from drug induced insulin production, or actual insulin injections, your pancreas becomes permanently burned out. By definition, you are now insulin dependent or a type 1 diabetic. Keep in mind that the problem is not too much glucose, but too much insulin. Everyone should have their fasting insulin levels tested. This will detect insulin resistance, years before your blood levels of glucose begin to go up.
I don’t think so. But you can control it with diet and exercise! Have you tried that? Nobody knows the exact etiology but suscept that it is genes combined with lifestyle, years of poor diet, etc that the cells become resistant to insulin…
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No, Diabetes can be controlled but not cured.
Yes, there are meds that are not injected but they don’t necessarily work in all cases.
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Many newly diagnosed type 2 diabetics consider them selfs cured. If you mean can they ever eat sugar like when they were a kid, then no. If you mean living the rest of their lives without drugs or complications, then yes. The pancreas becomes inflamed due to over producing insulin in an attempt to keep up with your ever increasing insulin resistance. Every carbohydrate you consume starting even before birth, moves you toward insulin resistance. Once the resistance becomes so great that the pancreas can not keep up, you are considered diabetic. If you avoid carbohydrates you accomplish two things. First, you give your pancreas a rest, and second, you give your resistant cells a rest. When you give the cells a break from insulin, they actually become sensitive again. After many years of extra insulin, either from drug induced insulin production, or actual insulin injections, your pancreas becomes permanently burned out. By definition, you are now insulin dependent or a type 1 diabetic. Keep in mind that the problem is not too much glucose, but too much insulin. Everyone should have their fasting insulin levels tested. This will detect insulin resistance, years before your blood levels of glucose begin to go up.
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"Good Calories, Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes 2007 I suggest some of you experts could use some continuing education
I would have to agree with cats There isn’t a cure for type 2 Diabetes you just need to follow your doctor’s instructions
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My Mother and Uncle both have diabetes
No it cannot be cured but it can be controlled. This may be just diet & exercise, it may be diet, exercise & pills and it may need a injectable medication. In the case of type 2 diabetes your body doesn’t use insulin properly (it becomes resistant).
Don’t be afraid of any of the injectable medications (byetta or insulin) because it isn’t the same as getting a shot or blood taken. With a small needle & a insulin pen for example it’s possible to barely feel the shot.
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I’m a diabetic
As per doctor’s there is no cure for diabetes can only be controlled. But i personally feel that indian traditional yoga and ayurvedic herb combinations can make wonder.
Please go through the web site mentioned below for details about the yoga and herbal treatment. Please have your test reports with you before testing and follow the yoga and herb treatments regularly. please inform me at r.thiruvelan@yahoo.com, if you get positive result. My best wises for your faster cure, but don’t expect the result immediately.
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http://www.healthy-ojas.com/html/diabetes_mellitus.html
No. There is no cure for diabetes.
But diabetes can be managed. By strictly following doctors orders, the effects of diabetes can be reduced or even eliminated.
the problem is, if you ever "fall off the wagon" with your diabetes treatment, you WILL become diabetic again. So, no, diabetes is NOT curable — only controllable.
For the Type 2 Diabetic there are many oral medications that can be tried, and the BEST treatment is strict control of diet, increased exercise, and lose weight.
But if the patient does not have the proper level of self-discipline, then eventually insulin injections WILL be necessary. Since insulin is destroyed by stomach acids, there is NO oral form of insulin. Experiments with inhaled insulin have been stopped, since the tests showed an increase in lung cancer!
No one knows for sure why the pancreas stops working. (if scientists knew, there would be a cure…) There are some experiments now that indicate that it might be related to an autoimmune disease (the pancreas tries to digest itself) but there is no real "fruit" from this pathway as yet.
Sometime the pancreas doesn’t stop, it is just overworked. this happens when the patient is obese, and the pancreas cannot provide enough insulin to handle the body AND all that fat. In this case, losing weight will allow the pancreas to "function normally", SO LONG AS the patient keeps the weight off.
BUT, it seems that the longer tha patient remains overweight, the harder the pancreas works, and it eventually wears out — requiring insulin injections.
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