Comments on: Diabetes is Now a Disorder of the Small Intestine?

By: Mark Sisson

Mark Sisson — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:51:31 +0000

Scott, I wish you the best of luck with the path you have chosen.

By: Sue

Sue — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:37:27 +0000

“Ten months ago I had bypass surgery and can tell you it was the single best thing that I’ve ever done for myself. Period. It drastically reduces your chances of dying from cancer and cured my t2. And whats more I didn’t have to become a slave to exercise and diet. Keep up your rediculous fight to live right and I’ll just go on living happily normal and not being a slave to T2″

How does it reduce your chance of dying from cancer and how did it cure your t2? When you say that you didn’t have to become a slave to exercise and diet – do you mean that you saw it as an easier option or that you just thought it was your only option. You wrote earlier that you struggled with your weight for years and as you got older slowly lost the battle. I don’t think you can lose the battle with weight – you just stop fighting because you believe that you can’t win.

By: scott baker

scott baker — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:05:48 +0000

You people are a bunch of morons and sound like tom cruise on depresion. Modern science has discovered things like antibiotics and tests and treatments for many bad genetic traits that many people have that can not be cured by change of lifestyle. I personally struggled with my weight for years and as I got older slowly lost the battle. Ten months ago I had bypass surgery and can tell you it was the single best thing that I’ve ever done for myself. Period. It drastically reduces your chances of dying from cancer and cured my t2. And whats more I didn’t have to become a slave to exercise and diet. Keep up your rediculous fight to live right and I’ll just go on living happily normal and not being a slave to T2

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:27:59 +0000

If you get cancer people have some compassion. If you get diabetes you have failed and are doing something wrong! You are treated that way by your entire environment that all have miracle cures…
In spite of the Diabetes ass. and my Dr’s advice I used a high protein/low carb diet..it helps, it does not cure. And what about the Government that filled our food supply with chemicals and margarine/trans fats that probably some people are more sensitive to than others. What about the wheat and corn steeped in roundup/poison so that the field weeds are controlled? Or the cows,fish and chicken that are raised on antibiotics and hormones..The Dr’s aren’t overprescribing antibiotics the farm stores and providers of farm feeds are filling the food supply to the farms to poison you.. I have been eating organic, high protein and small quantities plus working out and walking a long time. I know it is much more complicated than you make it out to be.
I say we all quit giving the diabetes research people money. I don’t see any real progress..I am giving money to the people who can’t afford to test. Years ago there was a company in Bellevue WA. who sold and distributed low cost test strips. When I could not find them my pharmacist told me that they had been purchased by a major pharm company and all the low cost strips had been destroyed… I think that diabetes is a money making business …The confusion over diet, medication and the lack of progress are just the camouflage…Fight to save yourself..and look to countries that have a single payer health care system to cure this…they have incentive. Good Health to you, Have compassion!

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By: Deb

Deb — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:24:46 +0000

90 days won’t do it for me, but I do find that when I hit a certain weight my numbers climb. My magic number seems to be under 220 pounds..221+ and higher, and my sugars are nuts.

I eat clean (cut out preservatives/chemicals) and work out with a trainer 2-3x a week…exercising regularly more than 6 months, eating clean 4 months now…but my A1C is still high…My problem is as I’m losing fat, i’m gaining muscle. I can almost guarantee like clockwork, once I hit below 220, bam, my numbers drop.

I have a lot to undo

By: Sue

Sue — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:03:34 +0000

“Just looking at how challenging it is for many of us to maintain good habits in the basics of life, how can we just expect people who are already in the “bad end” of the scale with regard to obesity/overweight/inactivity to do a complete life change at will?”

How about if their life depends on it or if they want to avoid going blind or if they end up having a few fingers and toes sliced off – they’re pretty good reasons to do a complete life change at will!

Hopefully, if they do make this life change they do it with low carb to see real results. It angers me that a lot of diabetics do try but following the wrong advice and so that gets them nowhere fast.

By: Regina Wilshire

Regina Wilshire — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 14:38:36 +0000

People unable/unwilling to make the necessary commitment to lifestyle changes should not be left untreated. Yes, most everyone would agree that diet and exercise are the ideal way to combat type 2 diabetes. But that doesn’t mean you leave people to develop debilitating side-effects or to die if they don’t make perfect lifestyle choices.

That is due in part to repeated and continuous warning to patients that A) it’s impossible to do a carbohydrate restricted diet for any longer period of time and B) it’s an unhealthy diet to follow. Both are UNTRUE, yet repeated like gospel….repeat something enough and it’s considered truth, no matter how inaccurate it is.

Like Mark, I say, give me a type II and within 3-months I’ll have their blood sugar normalized, their A1c down, their triglycerides down, their HDL up with high odds their mediation is reduced or eliminated AND they’ll like how they eat too!

By: Mark Sisson

Mark Sisson — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:03:17 +0000

DR. J,

For sure it’s a societal change that needs to happen. We live in a world where nothing is our fault – always someone else, the economy, bad luck. I used to have a TV show alled “Responsible Health”. The premise was that your health was the single most important thing in your life, and that until you took full reponsibility – not blame, but responsibility – for your current condition, it was going to be extremely difficult to make any progress. If everyone were able to simply say “I take full responsibility for who I am and how I got here,” compliance would be a whole lot easier for you docs.

Meanwhile, I don’t ever want to leave the impression I think docs or anyone in Big Pharma is “evil.” I believe they probably all want to feel as if they are benefitting mankind in some way. Misguided at times, maybe. A cog in a broken machine, maybe…but not evil.