That's not because of the surgery. It's because he was forced into an extended fast before (and after) the surgery. Type 2 diabetes reverses almost immediately with fasting.
I have no personal involvement with Dr. Jason Fung's clinic in Canada, but he claims to reverse type 2 diabetes in virtually every case. https://idmprogram.com/
They've also published results from their clinical trials:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13300-018-0373-... http://diabetes.jmir.org/2017/1/e5/
I'm mostly interesting in longer water fasts, anywhere between 1 and 7 days.
And this effect lasts for eight months?
Here's a link to Dr. Fung's article specifically on reversing type 2 diabetes (https://idmprogram.com/reverse-type-2-diabetes-the-quick-sta...).
Keep downvoting me too, Big Pharma.
People are downvoting you because you are violating at least 3 site guidelines (commenting about voting, alleging astroturfing/shillage, and being civil). Particularly when you could have made a constructive argument and tried to elaborate what conditions it cured, what studies were behind it (maybe summarizing Dr. Fung's research), or other more valuable contributions.
The science on fasting as a diabetes treatment seems legitimate (even if early/still evolving), but claiming it cures other "incurable diseases" seems unsupported (particularly if you don't specify WHAT diseases).
Weight loss in general helps combat some other illnesses like high blood pressure, and while fasting might be a means to that end (i.e. weight loss) I've not read studies that looked at if fasting is more beneficial than other forms of weight loss.
Heck, even the fasting diabetes thing is very young science, I wouldn't call even that conclusive yet.
Plus I'm a little confused by your terminology, you say you've been "in the field" for 20 years but then refer to the medical world like it is a third party. Which field is that you've been in?
Bodybuilders actually use intermittent fasting - the unhealthy bits is the supplement abuse, but that's the sort of thing that happens with any extreme lifestyle. That's also a super limited view of the strength world.
What's an "unhealthy exercise routine"? Literally anything is better than doing nothing. Is it optimal? No, but if it gets you moving it helps. Are you talking injury or things that actively make you less "healthy"? I could see an argument from injury, but I'd rather someone have a ruptured ACL now than heart disease later.
I feel like we're about to enter "No True Scotsman" territory here.