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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Re the focus on only doing this with a doctor's advice.

With regard to diabetes, the medical advice is colored by pharma, which makes billions on diabetes medicine.  The current standard of care for diabetes that gets too far is to recommend bariatric surgery.  That is because, like fasting, it reduces food intake and reduces insulin levels and viola, Type II diabetes is reversed.  The medical community appears to be coming along slowly on this front.  If he followed his doctor's advice of starting medication my DH would have been on medication for almost 2 years now and probably would still feel miserable, be gaining weight and getting worse.  Yes, the side effects of diabetes medications are often weight gain, which exacerbates the illness.  By treating the symptons and not the cause they are making patients sicker.

So, no, we did not follow the doctor's advice, we researched it and decided to starting with low carb (this was medical advice) and intermittent fasting, along with monitoring his blood sugar levels daily to make sure nothing was going wrong and the medical professionals could not be happier with his progress.  Has he risked his health by skipping breakfast most days.  Not at all.  Is he healthier than he was 2 years ago, absolutely.

Managing insulin resistance is a matter of both meal timing and diet.

I absolutely agree that a patient that is taking insulin for diabetes needs to fast with doctor supervision as their medication needs to be adjusted as their insulin levels reduce as a funciton of the fasting.

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Your husband is doing an awesome job and I'm sure that he will never regret taking the bull by the horns and wrestling type II to the ground.  I did the same thing - low carb, IF, exercise - I dropped weight and feel great.  Yes, it takes some discipline but it is totally worth it to me if it keeps me from developing type II and going on diabetes meds.  Plus, I get the added benefit of looking a lot better and wearing cute clothes :).[/quote]

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