Many people, both in medical research and in the diabetic population, are searching for a new type 1 diabetes cure.
Type 1 is insulin dependent diabetes. It occurs when the beta cells in the area of the pancreas called the Islets of Langerhans stop being able to produce insulin. The causes of this are not entirely known, but it is believed to be a combination of infection, possibly a virus, and a genetic predisposition that is inherited. It often starts in childhood or adolescence which is why it is sometimes called juvenile diabetes, but it can develop in adults too.
Insulin regulates blood sugar levels, allowing a more or less regular supply of sugar to be released into the blood. This prevents us becoming either hypoglycemic (not enough sugar in the bloodstream to feed the brain) or hyperglycemic (too much sugar in the blood), both of which can be very serious and in some cases cause death. So if a person’s body lacks the ability to produce its own insulin, the person must take insulin, usually by injection. It cannot be consumed in the form of tablets because it would be digested and not reach the bloodstream that way.
Option 1: Transplant
The only complete type 1 diabetes cure is to receive a new pancreas or section of the pancreas by transplant. There is no other way to renew the cells that should be producing insulin, if they no longer work. However, many experts believe that the possible complications of a transplant outweigh the inconveniences of living with the disease so transplants are not often recommended. The disease is managed by a combination of insulin and careful diet to maintain normal levels of glucose in the blood.
Option 2: Diet
Type 2 diabetes can quite often be managed entirely with diet but this is because people with type 2 are still producing some insulin of their own. If they spread their food intake through the day and avoid high sugar and high fat foods, in many cases they can reach a point where their pancreas is able to cope. If not, they can take drugs to help manage it. However, this is not usually the case with type 1 where no insulin is being produced at all.
There have been anecdotal reports of people with type 1 diabetes who claim to have been able to normalize their blood sugar by following a special diet, to the point where they no longer need insulin at all. One example is Sergei Boutenko, the son of well known raw food writer Victoria Boutenko, whose family went on a raw food diet in an attempt to cope with the various different health problems of several family members after Sergei developed type 1 diabetes at the age of nine. The Boutenkos claim that Sergei never experienced any more diabetic symptoms after beginning to follow a 100% raw diet.
However, this cannot really be described as a cure for type 1 diabetes because the body has not begun producing insulin again. It is in fact a remission, and it would be possible that diabetic symptoms would recur in the future, especially if the person’s diet changed. Nevertheless, if you are looking for a type 1 diabetes cure you could consider looking into the raw food diet, subject of course to medical advice.
I didn’t know you can cure type 1 diabetes with the transplant that’s very interesting but sounds risky. I really hope they find a better cure for it.
There is NO DIET whatsoever that will cure type 1 diabetes. You are sharing FALSE information.
I agree with Ellen on this one…
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the standard for diabetes is Metformin but i also try to use alternative medicine in controlling diabetes. Alpha Lipoic Acid and Charantia seems to work well too against diabetes.
Ellen I know what you are saying and I do not want to offer any false promises for sure, However although it may be pushing it for the diet changes for most people but there is definitely a lot of hope for using islet cell-transplant procedure to eventually work as a cure.
I am very much interested in diabetes and love to collect information on it. Actually I am not a diabetes patient but my dad is a diabetes patient, now he is in the stage of injecting insulin. For the diet he avoid high sugar and high fat foods but when he goes a weekly check up his blood sugar was not in constant even though he maintain proper diet. The blood sugar will rise up and sometime normal and even low too. Can you give some ideas how to make the blood sugar be in normal form? Even he took pill after lunch and dinner. Hope you can share some of your great ideas in diabetes treatment.
If you read this article carefully, it never says you can cure diabetes type 1 with diet. It says there are “anecdotal claims” of a removal of symptoms using a raw diet, which indicates a remission of the pathology, which if you go back to a “standard” diet would bring back the condition.
Now if it’s possible to treat a condition without drugs, why wouldn’t you try it? (all under the supervision of a health professional) Considering that 85% of all Diabetes sufferers are Type 2 AND ALL of those are curable with a raw food diet, it makes sense to consider this a part of a lifestyle change.
You can’t cure type 1 diabetes with a tranpslant. The immune system attacks the new pancreas and creates the condition all over again. There is research underway to try and develop treatments that will prevent the system from attacking the new organ. But, these are just experiments. ANd not viable treatment options that are available.
The diet part of the article is written pretty poorly. It claims its a remission rather than a cure because he is not producing insulin. However, this is idiotic. If he wasn’t producing insulin, and claims to not be taking any. He’d be dead. You can’t survive without insulin.
Type 1′s don’t produce insulin. Sergei claims to not need insulin injections any longer because his pancreas has recovered. So either he’s producing insulin again or he’s the first human being on the planet to not need insulin. Which is not what he’s claimed. He claims he produces insluin now on his own and does not require injections. However, Sergei’s c-peptide level was never checked by a doctor. (a test that tells a doctor if you are producing insulin on your own) Which means he can’t provide any medical evidence that he was truly a type 1 who was cured. All he can claim is he was told he was a type 1 by a doctor who probably misdiagnosed him in the first place.
I am Ramesh, Coimbatore (INDIA) aged 28 years from poor family.
I am suffering from TYPE-1 DIABETIC since 1998. Daily I am taking THREE times INSULIN INJECTION. I want permanent relief from INSULIN INJECTION. (Like Pancreas transplant/Tablet form INSULIN etc).
I am also interested to participate in CLINICAL TRIAL program. send details.
I WANT FINANCIAL AID FOR MY DIABETIC TREATMENT & EDUCATIONAL EXPENSES.
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I am Ramesh,aged 27 years doing final year M.Sc course, from poor family.
I am suffering from TYPE-1 INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETIC.
Doctor advised me for INSULIN PUMP. The cost of installation charges will be around Rs.3,00,000/- (Rupees Three Lakhs only) approximately and
Monthly Medical expenses is around Rs.6,000/- per month (Insulin & Consumables).
I can illafford this huge medical expenses and appeal to the noble and kindhearted to donate liberally to save my LIFE.
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There is a cure that has been for mice and is currently in clinical trials. Dr Faustman at http://www.faustmanlabs.com found a cure in mice back in 2002 by using a generic drug. The major hurdle is that this will be a cheap cure if it works on humans. With the diabetes industry being around 170 billion no one other than diabetic want it cured. Check out Faustman labs and spread the work