Yes, diabetes CURED

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Elle:

Information from Scopinaro's report states that 100% of the diabetics

who participated in the study were cured of diabetes, and that the

cure could not be attributed to loss of weight in and of itself, but

to the " specific action of BPD on glucose metabolism. " Hess claims

that Type II diabetes is cured by the BPD. You gotta give me better

arguments than these to make me change my tune.

Best,

From Scopinaro's Report:

" In fact, out of the 1773 (total series) AHS BPD patients with a

minimum follow-up of one year, not only the 248 (14%) with

preoperative simple hyperglycemia, nor only the 108 (6.1%) with type

II diabetes mellitus manageable with oral hypoglycemics, but also the

32 (1.8%) patients with preoperative type II diabetes mellitus

requiring insulin therapy, one year after BPD and permanently

thereafter had normal serum glucose level without any medication and

on totally free diet. Comprehensibly, this is accompanied by serum

insulin levels normalization, as demonstrated by us in cross-

sectional (22) and longitudinal (serum insulin in 53 AHS BPD

subjects: preop. 18±10 mcU/ml; at 1 year 5.2±2.3; at 2 years 4.6±2.0;

at 3 years 6.0±3.1; controls 6.9±2.6; ANOVA: each group vs. preop.

<.0001) studies, as well as normalization of insulin-sensitivity

(Table 6). "

" Considering that about 20 percent of type II diabetes mellitus

patients are not obese, and about 20 percent of formerly obese

patients with type II diabetes mellitus still require insulin therapy

after weight normalization by dieting, it must be concluded that

simple weight loss or intraabdominal fat reduction cannot account for

the observed 100 percent recovery from type II diabetes mellitus

after BPD. Actually, our preoperatively diabetic patients had on the

average normal serum glucose concentration already one month after

operation, when the excess weight was still over 80%, this also

indicating a specific action of BPD on glucose metabolism. The latter

could be identified with the virtual annulment of the entero-insular

axis. Indeed, serum GIP concentration shows after BPD a substantially

flat curve in response to the test meal, along with normalization of

basal and meal-stimulated serum insulin levels (10). "

From Hess's report:

" Bariatric surgery has been known to improve or cure diabetes

mellitus6. With the biliopancreatic bypass and the duodenal switch we

have operated on 36 diabetics, all Type II, of which 18 of them are

non-insulin dependent and 18 were insulin dependent. One patient was

taking as high as 500 units of insulin a day, but generally they were

taking insulin in the range of 40 to 50 units per day. The non-

insulin dependent patients would leave the hospital after surgery

taking no medication and have continued taking no medication since

their surgery. The insulin dependent diabetics would occasionally

take a small amount of insulin or a hypoglycemic agent for a short

time, but never more than two months following surgery. All of the

above patients, after a few months and up to seven years following

surgery, are taking no medication of any type for their diabetes. All

of them have normal blood sugars as indicated in the graph showing

the pre-operative average blood sugar and the post-operative average

blood sugar on all these patients up to 5 years (Figure 8). The

present glycosylated hemoglobin average for this group is 5.0%

(normal reference range is 4.2%-5.9%). We can say without hesitation

for the obese Type II diabetic, this surgery will cure their

diabetes. "

> OK I have to jump in on this.

> Diabetes, even type ll diabetes, is not cured by the DS, but is

~controlled~ by weight loss. Right now there is no

> cure for diabetes other than a pancreatic organ replacement.

> It's important for diabetics to continue to test to make sure their

blood glucose level remains low.

> Although I am no longer on insulin, I'm still a diabetic and I make

sure to test several times a week (fasting and after a

> couple of meals where I have had starches).

> Our beta cells, the insulin making cells, don't have to overwork

themselves to pump out glucogen/insulin as hard

> when we lose weight. Sometimes the drasticly fast weight loss can

make an immediate difference to a diabetic.

>

> For me, I quit using insulin the first week out of the hospital

because I wasn't eating very much (no duh). As my

> meals increased in quantity and as I added the occasional sweet to

my diet (Oreos today) I make sure I continue to

> test. After the sweets this afternoon, my glucose level rose to

148 but dropped quickly.

>

> I'm glad my body is responding so well to surgery but I'll never be

cured of diabetes.

>

> Elle in oregon - under 200# for the first time in decades