Insulin resistance is a key pathophysiologic factor that is the underpinning of patients with type 2 diabetes and the _meta_bolic syndrome. In the evolution of type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance appears in about 85% to 90% of patients and seems to remain with the individual for life. It can be reduced through life_style_ changes in the small percentage of patients willing and able to adopt them, but it cannot be completely reversed. In other words you're suffering from cyanide poisoning, don't stop eating the cyanide, we'll give you some antidote What we have mostly discovered is that by eating fewer carbs we need less antidote, and what we do need works better. The technology now exists to make that feasible. There's a major difference between medicating from a totally crap BG level down to a fairly crap BG level, and attempting to achieve a normal BG level by any means necessary. Study after study has people with A1cs in the 8+ range, it's almost as if they don't believe the 5% club can exist. I suspect you may still be in glucose toxicity, where you need to throw *everything* at the problem: you're obviously heading downwards and you may find when you get there it becomes easier to maintain than to achieve initially. At the end of the day the sort of diet they still push consists of toxic levels of carbs for a sizeable minority of the population, and maybe for the majority. Fortunately there are those who are beginning to understand this within the medical and dietary professions. Salad? Nuts? Thank you, I don't mind if I do . . .