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Recently I saw this family talking about having reversed Type 1. What they seem to be saying is a very strict low carb/plant based diet. What is your view of this and what does Laura think given the efforts she made with her son when diagnosed. Thanks
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Ginger Vieira says
Unfortunately, a healthy and low-carb diet does not REVERSE Type 1
diabetes. (If it were that easy, we'd all cure ourselves!)
"Reversing" diabetes would imply that my pancreas has suddenly begun to
produce its own insulin again. Instead, a low-carb, healthy diet can be very
helpful in MANAGING Type 1 diabetes because food is the first thing our bodies
have the most trouble handling. I need insulin to digest food...the more
carb-heavy and unhealthy the food is that I eat, the more work I have to do in
my diabetes management to balance my blood sugar around this.
Eating a low-carb, healthy diet is definitely important for your son to
learn, but it will never reverse his diabetes. It will, however, make life
easier in many ways if he can build and continue those healthy habits.
