"Some studies found that patients were able to reverse their need for insulin therapy during therapeutic intermittent fasting protocols with supervision by their physician."
https://clindiabetesendo.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/...
No, fasting is problematic because people don't like it.
Health conscious people don't understand how much resistance the average patient has to advice about lifestyle modifications, or how difficult it is to get patients to adhere to recommended lifestyle changes.
A good example is sleep apnea and CPAP machines: In theory, a CPAP machine should provide life-changing improvements in sleep quality and daytime energy for someone with sleep apnea, yet patient adherence rates are shockingly low (even when covered by insurance). Many patients are simply annoyed by the machines and give up on it.
That's not to mention the fact that weight loss is extremely effective in many (though not all) sleep apnea situations, but it's rare that patients will actually follow through with that.
US healthcare is crisis focused, not health focused.
Genuinely curious... have you ever been an obese person? Every fat person I've known have told me they're constantly shamed about being fat in medical settings, some to the point where they actively avoid going to a doctor anymore because they've given up on anything beyond being told they're fat.
I don't want to confuse my experience with actual data. Also, I don't think it's shaming if it's a health issue and obesity should be recognized as such.
I don't think this is true. Doctors do tell patients if they are overweight, and they do encourage them to make lifestyle changes including losing weight.
"Fewer than one of five overweight patients and slightly over half of obese patients reported being told they were overweight by their provider."
So "rare" is the wrong word.
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/journal-articl...
You don’t need to completely throw in the towel if you don’t want to. Take breaks, try different masks as much as you can, get your dr to help adjust pressures. At least for some of us it does eventually click.
Good luck!
At the end of the day, we are all different, and the threshold for what physical sensations a person can tolerate is highly variable. Everyone understands that about pain (I hope!), but this goes just as much for all these other things that are not necessarily painful as such, but are still physical.
Is this just an American thing? Every GP I've ever seen has asked me about my diet and exercise despite me being in the healthy BMI range.
I've had doctors (in America) tell me to not worry about medical issues and others recommend a battery of tests to look for correlated but uncommon issues. My current GP recommends basic, palatable approaches to diet and exercise that have nothing to do with giving them money (and, presumably, reduce my medical costs with them down the road.)
I've also had doctors suggest that I get an issue reclassified so they could do surgery. That could be viewed as them wanting money, but I view it as them seeing a problem that can be fixed by surgery because, as a surgeon, that's how they approach problems.