Comments on: The Definitive Guide to Insulin, Blood Sugar & Type 2 Diabetes (and you’ll understand it)

By: Laurie

Laurie — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:41:56 +0000

You know, some people have a very slow onset of Type 1. Usually they are diagnosed adults, and they may or may not be overweight. It LOOKS like type 2, but it may not be truly Type 2. Sometimes it is referred to as LADA or Type 1.5. With these people, the oral medications work for a little while, but they eventually become ineffective. After a while (sometimes it takes years) they become a true Type 1 diabetic, and insulin is unavoidable.

I’m not saying this is your case, but it is something to google and see if it fits.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:35:31 +0000

You are absolutely correct in saying that Type 1 Diabetics can never suddenly change to Type 2, but they can become Type 1 AND Type 2, if they become insulin resistant.

A Type 2 diabetic can ruin his/her pancreas to the point that it no longer makes insulin. He then would be Type 2 AND Type 1 at the same time. It could happen (theoretically).

By: Anne Fell

Anne Fell — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:18:14 +0000

This is great. After my mom and two brothers were diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, I cut out most grains. I soon lost the 10 pounds I’d been struggling with for about 10 years. I finally feel like I’m the weight I should be. I can’t believe I fed my kids so many carbs as they were growing up. Gov’t said to. Shame on them

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By: G Pachoir m.d.

G Pachoir m.d. — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:14:53 +0000

In Type 2 DM your beta cells can eventually “burnout” making your disease behave like DM1. MOst of the confusion comes from archaic nomeclature for diabetes, ie insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) , non insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM).

While it is true that some can off insulin in type 2 DM, there are other who cannot. Your doctor will test for protein C levels to ensure that your pancreas is functioning.

By: Sorin

Sorin — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:42:35 +0000

I cant belive there exist people like you who care about our health and give us informations for FREe.

Long life Mark, you are really special man.

By: Gary Katch

Gary Katch — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:30:16 +0000

@Erhan: an appeal to authority is not a good argument. As for proof, one can never prove a hypothesis, only disprove it. Anyway, Mark is not a lone voice in this, the web is full of papers and studies by scientists who make a convincing case, and as Mark’s work shows, the anecdotal evidence is increasing, and becoming too big to ignore.

By: Gary Katch

Gary Katch — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:54:59 +0000

“If you eat more fuel than your body needs … the body is forced to store this excess.”

In GCBC (p.300) Taubes argues against this supposition: “Just as we decrease energy expenditure in response to caloric surplus, we will also increase expenditure in response to caloric surplus.” (He also does a good job busting the “thrifty gene” hypothesis, and the “feast or famine” idea.)

This makes sense to me, as it demonstrates that the body regulates fat deposition; it is not forced to store the extra calories, there is the option of burning them (or even excreting them).

The real question is why the normal up-regulation of energy does not occur in obese people.

By: Erhan Hosca

Erhan Hosca — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:44:05 +0000

i think the author should focus on writing articles about running marathons instead, as this seems to be the area of his expertise…

being a pre-med candiate with a degree in Biology is hardly enough credentials to postulate (without providing any proof) on the inner mechanics of Diabetes.

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