Here is my diabetes theory. True or false, it permitted me to cure diabetes, that is to say, to no longer need any medication: insulin, metformin, etc.
Humans don’t need carbohydrates or their friends, lectins. This is proven for example by the Inuit before 1960: they ate a few rare berries growing on the bushes in summer.
The best known lectins are glutens.
My diabetes, and in general, diabetes is an excess of sugar blood. This sugar comes from the consumption of carbohydrates and lectins in food. So a carbohydrate-free and lectin-free diet is essential:
A: not consuming carbohydrates, lectins, or any food to which you are intolerant or allergic (oils, for me) is the first diet to try. This diet can only reduce the diabetic’s blood sugar.
If this diet is not enough (I do not know the frequency of these cases), diets B and C are possible.
B: Eat a single, safe food every day, two or three times a day. A food is safe if it is carbohydrate-free and lectin-free, and you are not allergic or intolerant to it. For me, this unique food can be sardines au naturel or with herbs; it can be chicken; it may be cheese, despite my intolerance to milk and yogurt.
C: Fasting can only lower blood sugar. But fasting is not permanent because you cannot fast indefinitely, and a very weakened person like me (I weighed 55 kg for 1.74 m) cannot support it for long, perhaps not long enough not to no longer need medication. From my readings, three consecutive days of fasting activates stem cells.
I hesitate between B and C if A fails. But I won’t have to choose, because the no-carb, no-lectin diet will be successful within a week.
Nota bene: fasting does not cure everything (fractures, anorexia ...).
I conjecture that these diets work just as well for diabetes 1 as for diabetes 2. This conjecture is testable.
If a diabetologist reads me, you never know, I advocate the following. Drug doses (insulin, metformin) should not be fixed; they must vary with glycaemia, to empower the patient, and encourage him to reduce his glycaemia and his doses, and encourage him to reactivate his pancreas. The patient must be informed of the existence of these diets. The patient should be encouraged to seek the diet that suits him.
To avoid runaway diabetes by feedback, the diet should start as soon as possible: on the one hand, the duration in days of the diet is half the daily dose of insulin: for example, for an initial dose of insulin of 24 units per day, you need a diet of at least 24/2= 12 days. On the other hand, it is conceivable that in the long run insulin injections end up definitively, irreversibly inactivating the pancreas. Experience will tell. Personally, I started the diet the day after I understood this feedback.
Other remedies for food intolerance are possible and could be successful, NAET for example.
Other food intolerances other than carbohydrates and lectins exist (oils, for me). It is not always easy to find the food at the source of the intolerance. For example, inadvertently eating a single olive perversely concealed in cheese made me sick for two weeks. If I hadn’t known about my intolerance to olives, would I have known that my intestinal troubles were due to this olive? That’s why I mentioned diet B, single food.