The “fattened” organs have impaired hormonal function, and this explains the liver’s difficulty in producing enough insulin to counteract blood sugars.
At Newcastle University they then discovered a way to “keep diabetes at bay” through a two-phase diet: an eight-week first phase consists of a very drastic diet of only 800 calories.under strict medical supervision, with a green smoothie for breakfast, a substitute meal for lunch and a very light dinner of vegetable soup. The diet in its shock phase was developed by Professor Roy Taylor, a diabetes and metabolic disease expert at the head of the team, who has successfully initiated this procedure not only in people who have recently had diabetes 2, a reversible condition even with diet alone, but also in those who had been fighting with diabetes for years.In Richard’s case, the experiment was successful. After 11 days he was able to abandon the 800-calorie diet with no signs of hyperglycemia despite the serious initial conditions: he then followed a balanced diet with whole grains, lots of fruit and vegetables, low fat, associated with running three times a week. This allowed him to keep diabetes at bay for the next three years.
Professor Taylor’s treatment was subsequently criticized a lot , as it does not resolve the condition of patients in the long term, whose diabetes can always re-manifest. However, in the trials, people who followed this very restrictive diet had no signs of hyperglycemia even in the months following treatment.