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True for most, largely because the medical industry has a vested interest in keeping folks sick, keeping folks on insulin, or marching them toward the need to take insulin.
Proper diet, a low carb, low to moderate protein, high fat diet can eliminate the need for most if not all medications in even the worst cases. I had fasting blood glucose in the 126 to 150 range, and post-prandial (afater eating) blood glucose spikes well above 200.
I was lucky. My doctor told me that protocol would have him prescribe metformin for me, and I would then take that a few years until more of my pancreatic beta cells died off and then I would start on insulin. Or, he said, I could go eliminate all sugars and starches from my diet, eat a nutrient dense whole food diet with plenty of fatty meat and fatty fish, but limit veggies to non-starchy fibrous veggies (basically I don't eat veggies any more). Fruit is limited to an occasional serving of berries: blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, and raspberries. No more rice, potatoes, sweet potatoes, cookies, cakes, crackers, breads, pies, or pastries.
My fasting blood glucose is almost always at 83 upon waking, and my one hour and two hour post-prandial rises in blood glucose rarely go above 100, and never above 105.
Contrast this to my uncle, who is only 57, in a nursing home, losings his feet bit by bit to complications from diabetes, shoots insulin like a junkie, but still insists on a daily does of devil dogs ("I just have to adjust my insulin a bit"). By the way, he is total FE clientele material. Most of you guys would feel right "at home" if you were to visit with him at his home (just make sure you brush the mouse droppings off the chair before you sit).
I have a friend, who at 55 years old was insulin dependent, with fasting blood glucose levels above 300, and was diagnosed with terminal liver disease and given 24 months to live. He went on the same diet as me, and he reversed his liver disease (he has a completely healthy liver profile today, 5 years after he was given less than two years to live). He is completely off of his insulin as well, and his blood glucose levels are similar to mine.
Diabetes will eventually get to almost everyone who eats the standard American diet (not everyone, but most of us if we live long enough). Type 2 diabetes is reversible and completely preventable. But only if you are willing to forego the sugars and starches. I miss my mashed potatoes and corn and pumpkin pies. But I want to live long enough to see my kids grown and married and see grandchildren someday far more than I want my sweet treats.
What a boring diet! I need to start eating a boring diet. I'm a "person of pre-diabetes", and my last glucose reading was 145. The one before that was 102. I love ice cream, cookies, cake, candy......
