I do NOT have a medical training, so the following is not medical advice.
Good News: The following three videos do come from medical sources. The first tells us that if we adopt a strict vegetarian diet, we can minimise our use of insulin. This is a fairly standard approach. I think it's wrong and I can point to research that shows that.
The second video explains very well why eating carbohydrates at every meal, as commonly recommended by doctors and Diabetes Associations, is poor advice. He goes on to recommend regular fasting, and to reduce your carbohydrate intake, until your symptoms go away.
The third video is about adopting a very-low-carbohydrate diet. That's the option Open Future Health would suggest you try.
Institutions are slow to change. That's intentional, and often that's a good thing. However, right now I believe that it's very clear, that standard medical practice and the recommendation of Diabetes Associations, has become disconnected from best practice. Talk to you doctor about that.
There is a specialist page for doctors. I can give you the URL if you ask.
Medical Ways of Treating Diabetes
One a standard method, the other a bit radical.
Neal Barnard, Treating Diabetes Naturally - A Vegetarian Diet
(19 minutes)
Dr Barnard builds a case for adopting a low-fat vegetarian diet to REVERSE diabetes. He claims clinical and practical success with patients. Vegetarian diets are still strongly supported by many Americans. I think that is driven by strong ethical and religious values, among some groups. On the other hand, many students of bio-chemistry and physiology, argue that there is no scientific basis for recommending a vegetarian diet. The major professional nutrition forum on the Internet, has banned posts from people claiming that vegetarian diets are healthy, because that claim has no scientific support.
Open Future Health believes the above video is unhelpful. We don't recommend it at all.
Jason Fung, Treating Diabetes by Fasting
(35 minutes)
We are very impressed by Dr Fung's presentation. The clarity of his description of the interaction between carbohydrate and insulin is excellent. He then recommends fasting to reduce the glycogen stored in your body, and the glucose load in the blood. We wondered why on earth he would do that. And concluded that it was a way to preserve his status as a "professional" within standard practice.
At the end of the lecture he confirms that fasting was simply an alternative to a low carbohydrate diet. The ketogenic way of achieving the same result, is the simple reduction of obvious carbohydrates to less than 50gm a day. This lecture is very informative.
"Reversing Type 2 diabetes through diet with Dr David Unwin"
Peppermint Wellness: Published on 21 Jun 2017 This is the skinny version, there is a longer video below.
(4 minutes)
"Dr. David Unwin - resolving Diabetes and Obesity - with Science"
