Dumb Question- what does it mean when people talk about "reversing their diabetes?"

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Dumb Question- what does it mean when people talk about "reversing their diabetes?"

This is specific to Type 2 diabetes, which is what I have. You sometimes hear people use the phrase that they have or are trying to "reverse their diabetes." I don't really get what that means. My A1C last time it was checked was 5.4, which is in the healthy range, sure. But I wouldn't say that I have "reversed" or "cured" anything - I know from monitoring my glucose daily that if eat badly my blood sugar will still spike as if I have diabetes because I do in fact have diabetes. I also wake up with a fasting blood sugar that is often my highest number of the day (and def higher than would be expected in someone without diabetes) because my liver is an unhelpful dummy. So like, I definitely still have it. What do people mean when they say that they have reversed it?

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Interesting-Fan-5866 It is reversing bad lifestyle, bad habits, bad diet (coke, Mcdonald, sugar, sweets, no exercise) with implementing good habits, good diet, healthy lifestyle. The end result is a healthy weight, healthy muscle, reduced fat. Basically you do a complete 180 (or reversing the car) moving away from destination feeling and being crap and unhealthy back to healthy. So you have 2 options. keeping on racing down highway T2D progression and complications and terrible death OR put on the breaks, Reverse and get the hell outa there and speed away the opposite side back to healthy HbA1c and blood work.

That is the reversal part, remember to the opposite side, the other direction of (back to doom Town T2D) is still there. You don't nuke the highway, you don't demolish the town of T2D, it's still there (no cure in the standard terms). I feel people should stop trying to label or criticise someone saying reversed T2D or cured my T2D when they made changes, turned that car around on the highway to T2D hell. You maintain your outcomes by keep going in the opposite direction and not getting bogged down with words or falling back into bad habits. The positive changes is not only good for T2D its good for your health as a whole so it should apply to anyone. You don't cure obesity, losing muscle, being unfit, heart and cardiovascular disease, you do a 180 and keep moving in the opposite and right direction Yesterday 1 like

JaninaWalker1 I really appreciate your choice of words. That's the best ever. I can't stand it that people feel that freedom means you should be allowed to do whatever you want. I never believed that way and as a result I may live longer. I don't even want to do what would be risky as I don't get a kick out of that as some people do. If you were to write a book, I would certainly want to read it. That's how much your choice of words showed that you've got the right perspective, at least in my mind. Yesterday 2 likes

Interesting-Fan-5866 Thank you. That is my opinion and my view and I realise its more nuanced and complex and some will have their own perspective and even experience and different views should be respected for me its based on one direction takes you towards T2D and most of us are travelling down that highway and some of us have been travelling down that highway too far and too long...how far and for how long sets how deep into T2D town we are. Some of us realise this is a bad neighbourhood and we get out of there, some think that the effort to find the way out and back on the highway is much too complicated and effort and just try to survive in their new neighbourhood. Yesterday 2 likes