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elijah112358 t1_j0yu7k6 wrote

Reply to comment by anonprogtada in Molecule that mimics insulin opens new doors for a diabetes pill by rchaudhary

it’s impressive how inaccurate you’re able to be in so few comments!

There’s a reason we regularly do pre-diabetes screening and education… and why we focus so much on lifestyle changes during the reversible period of T2DM.

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anonprogtada t1_j0yuqfx wrote

Reversible period? If pancreatic function is still present, its a question of restoring insulin sensitivity. Which is still best achieved wth ... low carbohydrate diets. Turns out the thing which overloaded the system aka glucose is the same thing we can remove from the diet to restore it.

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elijah112358 t1_j0ywe8d wrote

No one’s arguing against low carb diets being effective in managing T2DM. However, your assessment that eliminating sugar from a diet will reverse T2DM is only accurate in early stages of the disease.

At some point, insulin insensitivity cannot be reversed with lifestyle changes alone, and is certainly not “best achieved” with such changes.

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