Noticeable changes since you started?

[DarcyInOregon]

The benefits I've achieved are the same as others have stated. However, I have a benefit that hasn't been listed yet and that is the doctor has told me I have reversed two diseases: hypertension and diabetes. I don't have any other diseases, unless arthritis is a disease.

I don't write about the reversals to have someone say you can't reverse diabetes and to start a big argument. Just accept my word that I was a very low level type 2 at the border of pre-diabetes and diabetes, and thus with a modest insulin impairment, and so the doctor diagnosed me as being diabetic since diabetes is rampant in my family. It was a pro-active diagnosis to enable me to turn the disease around, and to not end up like others in my family with kidney failure, blind, and with amputated bits and pieces. I remained a low level controlled diabetic, meaning I kept my blood sugars in the normal healthy range (under 110) through diet and exercise and testing my blood sugar all the time. When I started the cycling and kept increasing my level of fitness, and thus my body composition changed, my blood sugars fell to super normal and for the longest time now any test at any time throughout the day will show my blood sugars to be in the 80s, and lower when I am cycling, but in the 80s in the a.m. and after all meals. The doctor said I reversed the diabetes, and that I am now insulin sensitive again.

As for the hypertension, I controlled that disease with diet and exercise also. However, it is the same as with the diabetes in that the cycling brought about amazing physical changes in my body, and my blood pressure at any time of the day or night now remains below 120/80. Not only that, I have to make an effort to eat some food with salt because of the sodium loss while cycling, and believe me, that is difficult to do after so many years of not eating salt.

Darcy