Exploring Misconceptions About Diabetes

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For some facts on how to prevent, treat and reverse type II diabetes check out this article: http://www.healthiertalk.com/are-diabetes-and-insulin-resistance-really-reversible-0839

Grace of MD 3:26PM August 12, 2009

Insulin causes you to gain weight. That is a fact. It was true in the past, and remains true today. By the way, Byetta, is extremely expensive and works rather poorly from my experience, not to mention that it is by injection only. Why don't you mention that metformin makes you lose weight? It also is very cheap and taken by mouth. Are you advertising Byetta now? It is rather new on the market, maybe they are financing you somehow? Your article should be listed as an advertisement, sound like a a pharmacetical lecture to me.

cris of FL 9:00AM August 11, 2009

Health Central is a patient centric site for 35 different health issues one being diabetes. One patient expert living with diabetes is David Mendosa and he has been off of Byetta for almost 3 years! He manages his diabetes with just diet and exercise.
He is a great example that people living with type 2 can learn about health and well being from their condition and advocate to others about how to get out of the diabetes box!

Ann Bartlett of VA 9:31PM August 10, 2009

I am wondering if anyone who had been diagnosed with diabetes has ever been able to go off of oral medications for this conditon? For example if the cause of diabetes diagnosis was a result of being overweight, then once the person lost weight has anyone ever been able to go off of any diabetic oral medication, such as metoformin.I correlate this with gestational diabetes where once a pregnant mom has had her baby and stabilized then she no longer requires the insulin.
Thank you for your attention to this question.
Linda Mihalicz

Linda Mihalicz 5:00PM August 10, 2009

I finished the book over the weekend. I consider myself VERY experienced with type 1 diabetes (over 36 years), but I still learned some important points from Riva's book. I think my main takeaway is, you don't need to worry about stuff as much as you think. You need to take care of yourself, and the books helps here, but diabetes complications are no longer an automatic outcome. Thanks for a very readable and extremely useful book.

Bernard Farrell of MA 3:08PM August 10, 2009