More on Treating Type-II Diabetes with Insulin
[I originally typed these afterthoughts into the comment section of my previous post. Then I decided they deserved more exposure than the comment section would provide, hence a new post.]
According to nephrologist, Jason Fung, the progression of Type-II diabetes with blindness, foot and leg amputations, peripheral neuropathy, nephropathy, cardiopathy, etc. goes unabated with the mere management of blood glucose via through medications.
The first doctor to diagnose me as "diabetic" advised me to walk a mile immediately after every meal to enable my blood sugar reading to be lower. This hocus-pocus is similar to what the weightlifting, wrestling, and boxing athletes do (spitting, diuretics, etc.) to make weight. It's asinine... window dressing. It doesn’t intrinsically change a thing.
It is well known that steroid products like Prednisone will make blood sugar increase dramatically. So if lowering blood sugar with insulin supplementation and other products—as well as with physical activity and exercise—is meaningless for diabetes-II status and progression, is the raising of blood sugar with steroids just as meaningless (I suppose not)? We must not forget the dangers of diabetic coma.
As Fung states, insulin administration does not make the blood sugar go away. It merely shoves it into other locations throughout the body (every organ). Reciprocally, steroids do not create more sugar. They merely move it from those other locations into the blood.
So what’s the problem? Why administer units of insulin to combat the steroid effect? Sounds like a metabolic shell game played at the expense of the patient! I would really like to know the details on this.
Please alert me to any defects in my assertions and rhetorical questions.