I know absolutely nothing about medicine. However, I was cured of my immune genetic diabetes (type 1), theoretically irreversible and incurable. Here I present my reasoning.
Initially, I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes (insulin-resistant) at the age of 60; my glycated hemoglobin is 11.5 percent, I weigh less than 62 kilograms for 1.74 meters. On metformin, my glycated hemoglobin is getting worse and reaches 13.3 percent. The diabetologist prescribed me metformin, Diamicron and insulin. In one week, two nocturnal hypoglycaemia nearly killed me and caused me two retinopathies which required two operations (argon laser). This reaction of my body to Diamicron (cetirizine Mylan 10mg) shows that in fact I have type 1 diabetes. Diamicron is strictly contraindicated in type 1 diabetes.
The diabetologist explains to me: “Your reaction to the diamicron shows that you suffer from immune genetic diabetes (type 1: the immune system destroys or has destroyed the pancreas, which secretes insulin, the hormone regulating blood sugar). So you are insulin dependent. It is irreversible and incurable. You are currently taking a daily dose of 12 units of insulin. In a year, you will need two injections a day, maybe three. When you need five, they’ll put you on an insulin pump. I tell you this so you can prepare for the inevitable. To adjust your insulin dose, you will measure your blood sugar every day. Below the low threshold (0.8 grams per liter of blood), decrease your dose by 2 units; above the upper threshold (1.1 grams per liter), increase your dose by 2 units; between the two thresholds, keep the dose from the day before. »
This prognosis displeases me. I think for a week.
Insulin doses are no longer fixed. For the first time, I can act. But what to do?
The diabetologist was wrong several times. 1: the diabetologist was wrong about the type of my diabetes. 2: it is the reaction to the drug that determines the type of diabetes, not the results of the medical tests. 3: this almost killed me. In my view, each of these three errors invalidates (disqualifies) diabetes medicine; it is false and dangerous.
I decide to consider diabetology as software; the previous three bugs are visible consequences of deeper, hidden bugs. What are these hidden bugs?
My diabetologist is very sure of his prognosis. Clearly this worsening of diabetes is occurring for many of his patients. I trust him about that, but I suspect a self-fulfilling prophecy and negative feedback: if it was the treatment that made the diabetes worse? Let me explain:
Each time a phenomenon gets carried away, a scientist or an engineer suspects a feedback ("feedback"). A well-known example of acoustc feedback is Larsen effect. Negative feedback is buggy feedback. A classic example of negative feedback is the following. A and B each have their electric blanket. They swapped their control box, which was on the nightstand. A is cold and raises the temperature of B’s blanket, who is too hot and lowers the temperature of A’s blanket. Etc. It’s a vicious circle: A gets colder and colder, and B gets hotter and hotter.
I suspect my diabetes is due to carbohydrate and lectin intolerance. For a dozen years, I have not eaten dairy products or gluten to avoid diarrhea and intestinal pain. Recently, my diarrhea started again, I became intolerant or allergic to other foods : potatoes, tomatoes, oils, olives, radishes, honey and others that I did not identify. Is my diabetes a worsening of my gluten intolerance? I read that glutens are the best known lectins, that lectins and therefore glutens are carbohydrate friendly proteins; Diabetes is an excess of blood sugar. Hence my theory. It makes sense. If true, a carb-free, lectin-free diet may lower my blood sugar levels, possibly lowering my insulin doses as well. In a week, I wouldn’t need insulin anymore. Anyway, this diet will not make me run any additional risk and will not cause me any additional damage (well yes, there will be the "pains of lack", but they are temporary). The Inuit before 1950 did not consume carbohydrates or lectins: they are not necessary for the human body.
My theory also gives two main causes which explain the aggravation of diabetes 1 in the other patients.
First, these patients do not follow a diet and continue to eat carbs and lectins, addictive and comforting, which worsens their diabetes: their pancreas does not produce enough insulin.
Secondly, insulin injections inactivate the pancreas by an obvious negative feedback (vicious circle), which I illustrate by this imaginary dialogue between Pancreas and the rest of the body: Body. The role of the pancreas is to produce insulin, so that there is the right amount of it in the body.
Pancreas, pitiful: "Body, I wanted to do 100 units of insulin, but I could only do 90."
Pancreas was only able to produce 90 units instead of 100 because the patient did not go on a diet and consumed poison: carbohydrate and lectin. The patient compensated: he injected himself (he injected into Body) 10 more units of insulin. But Pancreas and Body ignore it; this is impossible in nature. For Corps, everything is going well:
Body: "Pancreas, insulin level is fine with me."
Pancreas: "Since 90 units is enough, tomorrow I will do 90, instead of 100."
After ten similar incidents, the pancreas is inactivated, but not necessarily destroyed.
Note: one could object to me: “But after all, if the world believes that the common cold is incurable, it does not become so! ". I have already answered: it is the treatment of diabetes that aggravates diabetes and makes it, apparently or really, irreversible and incurable. For the common cold (before Covid 19 at least...), it passed on its own, treated or not, because science had not yet invented a treatment that aggravates it and makes it incurable.
My theory also gives secondary causes that contribute to the aggravation of diabetes 1 in other patients. There is the feeling of helplessness of the patient which makes him really helpless. Fixed doses of medication (metformin, insulin) also contribute to the patient’s feeling of helplessness, because he cannot try to reduce them. It is "learned helplessness", and the very word "patient" participates in it: a patient waits, he does not act. For the diabetic scientist or engineer who is familiar with negative feedback, his situation (his personal involvement, his stress, his distress, his role as a patient, etc.) inhibits him and prevents him from thinking calmly. Human diabetes experts (doctors, diabetologists) are also victims of this learned helplessness.
Another secondary cause, the patient is relieved of responsibility since he does not know that the worsening of his diabetes is caused by what he eats.
In my view, this disregard for feedback is an absolutely huge, crippling error, a bug, in the "software" of diabetes; knowing absolutely nothing about medicine, I can only detect absolutely huge errors.
In my opinion, the social consequences of this huge bug are monstrous: the "software" pushes type 1 diabetics into diabetes, instead of out of it. These patients are often children, adolescents, or young people.
In my view, this bug makes the science of diabetes a self-fulfilling science (by analogy with "self-fulfilling prophecies"). This bug also disqualifies the technoscience of diabetes, even if my case is unique.
In my opinion, these huge bugs in the "software" went undetected, simply because the "software" leads to results confirming the beliefs and predictions of the actors; this confirmation accredits the "software", ie it reinforces the confidence that the actors have in it. Another negative feedback loop that makes "software", although completely buggy, confirmed by experience, that theory, although completely wrong, is confirmed by facts.
I have just summarized the reasoning that led me to try this diet. For simplicity, I have discarded elements that are not used or not essential for my theory, and which only confuse the situation; of course, these discarded elements are compatible with (do not contradict) my theory.
I need to start the diet as soon as possible to avoid the negative feedback trap: maybe in the long run insulin injections irreversibly inactivate the pancreas?
So I start the diet without carbohydrates or lectins the next day, a week after the diabetologist’s prognosis.
In a week, I no longer need insulin: every day, I lower my blood sugar below the threshold allowing me to reduce my daily dose of insulin by 2 units, initially 12; I pedal 20 to 30 minutes a day. I endure some "pains of lack" (memory of old wounds: fractures, sprains, which have been awakened by the diet; itching), which I had not anticipated: I deduce that carbohydrates and lectins are addictive. Diarrhea ceases after 4 days of diet; the pains due to withdrawal and those due to diabetes (cramps, violent electroshocks, aches, thirst, headaches) dissipate after a few weeks.
An electroshock is an electrification; fatal electrification is electrocution; electroshock has nothing to do with a discharge of static electricity.
I am sure and certain that, without this diet, the diabetologist’s prognosis would have come true.
This diet cured me: my cure accredits my theory, without proving it. But my recovery proves the "software" wrong: Type 1 diabetes is not incurable. Reminder: to invalidate a theory, a counterexample is enough.
A year and a half later, I am using the same method to no longer need metformin, this time without experiencing any pain. I could have done it earlier. I no longer take any diabetes medication. I continue this diet, which is sustainable.