Many experts believe Type 2 diabetes is an incurable disease that gets worse with time. However, according to a report in the NY Times, new research has raised serious possibility that drastic changes in diet may actually reverse the disease in some people.
NY Times cites a report published in the ‘Diabetes Care’, in which a research was conducted in England which studied the effects of a strict liquid diet on 30 people who had lived with Type 2 diabetes for up to 23 years. As many as 15 of the people reported remission that lasted six months after the diet was over. The small size of the sample notwithstanding, the finding offers new hope to millions who thought they had to live with the intractable disease for the rest of their lives.
Dr. Roy Taylor, a professor at Newcastle University in England and the study’s senior author. Said, “If we can get across the message that ‘yes, this is a reversible disease — that you will have no more diabetes medications, no more sitting in doctors’ rooms, no more excess health charges’ — that is enormously motivating.”
The most important aspect of the new study is that it proved the reversal after diet can persist for at least half a year as long as patients keep weight off, and can occur in people who have had the disease for many years.
The report further says that while it was not clear as to why the diet appeared to reverse diabetes, Dr. Taylor said that it could be linked to how the body stores fat. Excess fat in the liver can spill into the pancreas, inhibiting insulin secretion and the liver’s response to insulin, resulting in insulin resistance and diabetes. A very-low-calorie diet may allow the body to use up fat from the liver, causing fat levels to drop in the pancreas as well which in turn “wakes up” the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, normalizing blood glucose levels.
Source: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/18/hope-for-reversing-type-2-diabetes/?_r=0
NY Times cites a report published in the ‘Diabetes Care’, in which a research was conducted in England which studied the effects of a strict liquid diet on 30 people who had lived with Type 2 diabetes for up to 23 years. As many as 15 of the people reported remission that lasted six months after the diet was over. The small size of the sample notwithstanding, the finding offers new hope to millions who thought they had to live with the intractable disease for the rest of their lives.
Dr. Roy Taylor, a professor at Newcastle University in England and the study’s senior author. Said, “If we can get across the message that ‘yes, this is a reversible disease — that you will have no more diabetes medications, no more sitting in doctors’ rooms, no more excess health charges’ — that is enormously motivating.”
The most important aspect of the new study is that it proved the reversal after diet can persist for at least half a year as long as patients keep weight off, and can occur in people who have had the disease for many years.
The report further says that while it was not clear as to why the diet appeared to reverse diabetes, Dr. Taylor said that it could be linked to how the body stores fat. Excess fat in the liver can spill into the pancreas, inhibiting insulin secretion and the liver’s response to insulin, resulting in insulin resistance and diabetes. A very-low-calorie diet may allow the body to use up fat from the liver, causing fat levels to drop in the pancreas as well which in turn “wakes up” the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, normalizing blood glucose levels.
Source: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/18/hope-for-reversing-type-2-diabetes/?_r=0
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