lscarpati
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Hello all, first post here. In one month I will be 20 years old, and will have had type 1 diabetes for 7 years now. Let me preface this:
I grew up eating moderately clean foods, as my mom was a health freak ie. only organic foods in the house, minimal processed things etc. Obviously she nor I at the time understood many food items glorified by media were actually healthy, but either way, I did not grow up constantly injecting toxins and glycating my cells with pufas.
I grew up somewhat chubby, and by the time I reached middle school I was insecure about my face and body due to having slightly higher bf than what seemed to be average for others my age. I played sports but never at the travel level all throughout my childhood year round.
Around 1 year before my diagnosis, I started to really gain some weight, spending most of my days in the summer eating burgers fries and ice creams by the pool at my country club. This of course led to further weight gain.
Come march 2020, and I was diagnosed with type 1. I was put on insulin obviously, gained back the 30 pounds I had lost from DKA, etc.
There’s some background.
Now let’s get back to the point.
About one year ago I discovered the man many of you may have heard of or are familiar with, Aajonus Vonderplanitz. He had claimed to have cured himself of type 1 along with various cancer variants and countless autoimmune conditions and terrible symptoms. Obviously this struck me. Imagine having your entire life and mind developed so significantly by something that nobody around you could begin to understand or comprehend the depths of, and even you can’t fully. So the fact that this could be cure-able made me ultimately committed to doing so.
I graduated high school later that year, last spring. Around that time, I started eating raw meat and trying to get on the primal diet. However, it is very important to note:
I did bodybuilding from freshman year thru junior year. I was coached by someone many of you may know, onepunchnaz, Niall Darwen IFBB pro. In january of 2025 i had completely changed my route and began running and eventually all types of strenuous endurance training along with my lifting regimen. During my time working with Naz, we ramped my food up to 500g+ of carbs at my peak bulking phase where I was 230 pounds but still relatively lean. I am 6’5 for record so this is not unrealistic by any means. When i started running i also had the goal of getting to true single digit bf by the end of the school year and so I was in a deficit pretty much from January on. I did achieve single digits a bit before graduation, but before discovering Aajonus.
Summer came. I fully went in on aajonus’ works, reading all of his Q+A’s, books, and in fact the week I found out about him, I was going to buy raw milk at a store near me and met a woman who grew up with aajonus being extremely close with her family and often had him over. She followed his diet for 19 years apparently.
All was going well and I was happy. I was leaner than I could’ve ever imagined, I could finally see the bones in my face, I didn’t care that I had lost some muscle because nothing feels better than being absolutely shredded. I was performing amazingly, biking 10+ miles each day running 5+ and lifting. I was also, hardly needing any insulin anymore. Even when I was having carbs from raw milk, or when i’d sometimes make a shake with fruit eggs and milk, or unheated honey etc. But the issue came a few weeks later. I started to have severe hypoglycemia because despite me lowering my background insulin dose in my pump, it was still too much and I was extremely insulin sensitive. I would literally go low for 8+ hours and not correct it because I was scared of gaining weight and wanted to push my leanness even further despite the whole primal diet thing and diabetes. So i had 3 or 4 seizures, i don’t entirely remember most of these events so i’m not even sure how many it has been. My parents blamed the diet, made me stop, the seizures happened right at the end of summer, frying my central nervous system and brain cells, and a week later I was moving into college. Safe to say I failed out. It’s sad but I don’t care honestly, I never truly wanted to go.
During my time at college and the week before, the seizures triggered immense binge eating. I was dysfunctional to the fullest extent you could imagine and would do the weirdest things. I gained 40 pounds during my fall semester. Despite telling myself I would lose it and get lean again I couldn’t lock in. I would fast all day and eat raw meat and eggs at night as i didn’t have a roomate luckily, and then end up doordashing an enormous amount of sugar free candys, ice creams, etc. Peanut butter was the kicker for me I would destroy a jar of any nut butter in a sitting.
Since returning home after my fall semester I have lost 20 pounds. I did this by putting myself into deep ketosis. And now I currently am taking LESS INSULIN THAN I HAVE EVER BEEN ABLE TO TAKE. I am at 15 units a day total, i never have to bolus, the only insulin i get is the background dose. I eat raw meat and raw fats that’s it right now. But this isn’t unheard of, and follows what aajonus claims. I wrecked my health during my time in college but Somehow have reversed things and am getting quite lean again. But more importantly, the diabetes. I am almost positive that I will be able to functionally cure my pancreas and my beta cells. In fact I had a conversation with a woman who had the disease for 10 years and then cured it by simply eating healthier and absolutely no processed stuff and overtime she needed less insulin until she needed none and maintained normoglycemia (normal blood sugar levels).
At this point this is all I care about. I may be silenced one day if I do this and then speak out against the industry, but the truth is:
Insulin makes your pancreas more lazy and causes further dysfunction. That is why many diabetics in their honeymoon phase (the first 12ish months of diagnosis where your pancreas still makes SOME insulin) are able to stop taking insulin when they change their diet (and typically when the average joe starts “eating healthy” they end up eating lower carb not even on purpose but just as a result of cutting out common junk and sugar) and are able to take very little insulin and eventually none and never have to live with this hellish disease.
If you didn’t know, modern insulin analogs were entirely reinvented and are not the natural human insulins. Walmart insulin is actually a type of natural human insulin (novilin R) and I take humalog, which is a rapid acting. Aajonus claims he had best success with his clients who switched back to regular insulins, and slowly weaned off it over a few years.(apparently 2-3 years)
I am planning to switch over very soon as I continue my journey.
So, there really is no ending (yet) here. I wanted to share a glimpse of my story, although there have been many different chapters. I just find it funny that I used to be a bodybuilding child eating hundreds of carbs and now I’ve ditched everything to cure this disease. If anyone else out there has type 1, do some research. If you’re going to do this, just please lower your basal as appropriate. I nearly died far too many times. As i am writing this i am reminded that i actually passed out in a stall at college due to hypoglycemia as well. I have gotten away with periods of 24hours+ with low blood sugar and that is extreme luck. Do not attempt. But I wanted to share.
Anyway, since being home my average blood glucose is 83. Ketosis cured binge eating obviously otherwise i’d still be fat and have terrible glucose.
I grew up eating moderately clean foods, as my mom was a health freak ie. only organic foods in the house, minimal processed things etc. Obviously she nor I at the time understood many food items glorified by media were actually healthy, but either way, I did not grow up constantly injecting toxins and glycating my cells with pufas.
I grew up somewhat chubby, and by the time I reached middle school I was insecure about my face and body due to having slightly higher bf than what seemed to be average for others my age. I played sports but never at the travel level all throughout my childhood year round.
Around 1 year before my diagnosis, I started to really gain some weight, spending most of my days in the summer eating burgers fries and ice creams by the pool at my country club. This of course led to further weight gain.
Come march 2020, and I was diagnosed with type 1. I was put on insulin obviously, gained back the 30 pounds I had lost from DKA, etc.
There’s some background.
Now let’s get back to the point.
About one year ago I discovered the man many of you may have heard of or are familiar with, Aajonus Vonderplanitz. He had claimed to have cured himself of type 1 along with various cancer variants and countless autoimmune conditions and terrible symptoms. Obviously this struck me. Imagine having your entire life and mind developed so significantly by something that nobody around you could begin to understand or comprehend the depths of, and even you can’t fully. So the fact that this could be cure-able made me ultimately committed to doing so.
I graduated high school later that year, last spring. Around that time, I started eating raw meat and trying to get on the primal diet. However, it is very important to note:
I did bodybuilding from freshman year thru junior year. I was coached by someone many of you may know, onepunchnaz, Niall Darwen IFBB pro. In january of 2025 i had completely changed my route and began running and eventually all types of strenuous endurance training along with my lifting regimen. During my time working with Naz, we ramped my food up to 500g+ of carbs at my peak bulking phase where I was 230 pounds but still relatively lean. I am 6’5 for record so this is not unrealistic by any means. When i started running i also had the goal of getting to true single digit bf by the end of the school year and so I was in a deficit pretty much from January on. I did achieve single digits a bit before graduation, but before discovering Aajonus.
Summer came. I fully went in on aajonus’ works, reading all of his Q+A’s, books, and in fact the week I found out about him, I was going to buy raw milk at a store near me and met a woman who grew up with aajonus being extremely close with her family and often had him over. She followed his diet for 19 years apparently.
All was going well and I was happy. I was leaner than I could’ve ever imagined, I could finally see the bones in my face, I didn’t care that I had lost some muscle because nothing feels better than being absolutely shredded. I was performing amazingly, biking 10+ miles each day running 5+ and lifting. I was also, hardly needing any insulin anymore. Even when I was having carbs from raw milk, or when i’d sometimes make a shake with fruit eggs and milk, or unheated honey etc. But the issue came a few weeks later. I started to have severe hypoglycemia because despite me lowering my background insulin dose in my pump, it was still too much and I was extremely insulin sensitive. I would literally go low for 8+ hours and not correct it because I was scared of gaining weight and wanted to push my leanness even further despite the whole primal diet thing and diabetes. So i had 3 or 4 seizures, i don’t entirely remember most of these events so i’m not even sure how many it has been. My parents blamed the diet, made me stop, the seizures happened right at the end of summer, frying my central nervous system and brain cells, and a week later I was moving into college. Safe to say I failed out. It’s sad but I don’t care honestly, I never truly wanted to go.
During my time at college and the week before, the seizures triggered immense binge eating. I was dysfunctional to the fullest extent you could imagine and would do the weirdest things. I gained 40 pounds during my fall semester. Despite telling myself I would lose it and get lean again I couldn’t lock in. I would fast all day and eat raw meat and eggs at night as i didn’t have a roomate luckily, and then end up doordashing an enormous amount of sugar free candys, ice creams, etc. Peanut butter was the kicker for me I would destroy a jar of any nut butter in a sitting.
Since returning home after my fall semester I have lost 20 pounds. I did this by putting myself into deep ketosis. And now I currently am taking LESS INSULIN THAN I HAVE EVER BEEN ABLE TO TAKE. I am at 15 units a day total, i never have to bolus, the only insulin i get is the background dose. I eat raw meat and raw fats that’s it right now. But this isn’t unheard of, and follows what aajonus claims. I wrecked my health during my time in college but Somehow have reversed things and am getting quite lean again. But more importantly, the diabetes. I am almost positive that I will be able to functionally cure my pancreas and my beta cells. In fact I had a conversation with a woman who had the disease for 10 years and then cured it by simply eating healthier and absolutely no processed stuff and overtime she needed less insulin until she needed none and maintained normoglycemia (normal blood sugar levels).
At this point this is all I care about. I may be silenced one day if I do this and then speak out against the industry, but the truth is:
Insulin makes your pancreas more lazy and causes further dysfunction. That is why many diabetics in their honeymoon phase (the first 12ish months of diagnosis where your pancreas still makes SOME insulin) are able to stop taking insulin when they change their diet (and typically when the average joe starts “eating healthy” they end up eating lower carb not even on purpose but just as a result of cutting out common junk and sugar) and are able to take very little insulin and eventually none and never have to live with this hellish disease.
If you didn’t know, modern insulin analogs were entirely reinvented and are not the natural human insulins. Walmart insulin is actually a type of natural human insulin (novilin R) and I take humalog, which is a rapid acting. Aajonus claims he had best success with his clients who switched back to regular insulins, and slowly weaned off it over a few years.(apparently 2-3 years)
I am planning to switch over very soon as I continue my journey.
So, there really is no ending (yet) here. I wanted to share a glimpse of my story, although there have been many different chapters. I just find it funny that I used to be a bodybuilding child eating hundreds of carbs and now I’ve ditched everything to cure this disease. If anyone else out there has type 1, do some research. If you’re going to do this, just please lower your basal as appropriate. I nearly died far too many times. As i am writing this i am reminded that i actually passed out in a stall at college due to hypoglycemia as well. I have gotten away with periods of 24hours+ with low blood sugar and that is extreme luck. Do not attempt. But I wanted to share.
Anyway, since being home my average blood glucose is 83. Ketosis cured binge eating obviously otherwise i’d still be fat and have terrible glucose.
