Diabetes hunger strike
Scientists have told how you can get rid of diabetes without medication
Canadian doctors have collected evidence that periodic short-term fasting helps to get rid of type 2 diabetes and restore the normal functioning of the insulin system. Their findings are presented in the journal BMJ Case Reports. (Furmli et al., Therapeutic use of intermittent fasting for people with type 2 diabetes as an alternative to insulin).
"We have never heard of doctors seriously trying to use fasting as a therapy for diabetes. Our experiments show that periodic refusal of food is quite an effective and even desirable strategy of action that allows you to refuse taking insulin and medications," writes Suleiman Furmli from the University of Toronto and his colleagues (in a press release Planned intermittent fasting may help reverse type 2 diabetes, suggest doctors – VM).
According to WHO statistics, there are now 347 million diabetic patients in the world. Approximately 9 out of 10 of them suffer from type 2 diabetes, which occurs as a result of an increase in the body's immunity to insulin. 80% of diabetics live in low- and middle-income countries. By 2030, diabetes will become the seventh cause of death worldwide.
Three years ago, British biologists, experimenting on mice, found that the development of type 2 diabetes is associated with obesity of the pancreas and liver. Removing just one gram of fat from these organs, as further experiments showed, completely eliminated all the symptoms of the disease, including forcing the rest of the body's cells to "normally" perceive insulin molecules.
Later, they showed that a similar effect can be achieved with the help of a kind of "hunger strike" – a special diet that cleanses the pancreas and liver from excess fat, and promised to present the results of similar experiments on volunteers.
Furmli and his colleagues presented three examples at once of how such "procedures" helped diabetics get rid of the disease.
According to doctors, they were approached by three men aged 40 to 70 years who suffered from severe forms of type II diabetes. All of them had to take insulin, metformin and other medications.
All patients, according to Furmli, wanted to get rid of unpleasant symptoms, but did not agree to surgery and other invasive treatment methods. For this reason, the doctors suggested that they participate in the experiment and try to get rid of diabetes by fasting.
Two of them chose a more gentle regime, refusing to eat every other day, and the third diabetic starved for three days, and then resumed eating. They followed a similar diet for ten months, and scientists continuously monitored their health and changes in metabolism.
As it turned out, both methods had an extremely favorable effect on diabetics. After about a month, they were able to stop taking insulin and antidiabetic medications, and their insulin and glucose levels in their blood dropped to almost normal levels.
Thanks to this, after a few months, all three were able to lose from 10% to 18% of weight, and get rid of the effects of diabetes.
As doctors emphasize, the collected data only indicate the possible effectiveness of such therapy, but do not prove that it really works in all cases. Furmli and his colleagues hope that their success will encourage other scientists to start "serious" clinical trials involving more volunteers.
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