cellular asphyxiation
just my personal opinion:
Dr. Lustig may be correct if you are a new type 2 diabetic and still have a carbohydrate/insulin ratio of 20 or higher, that is 1 unit of insulin would cover 20 grams of carbohydrate, but we that have more like 1 carbohydrate to 1 unit of insulin are just metabolic zombies. Why we are alive no one really knows, we really should be dead already, but we are dying of cellular asphyxiation because of poisoning and poor nutrition. No diet or program can change this in one week or one month. I tested this using the Budwig Protocol and in three months my insulin sensitivity only increased about 10 mg/dl per unit insulin, from 5 mg/dl/IU to 15 mg/dl/IU. That's about 3 grams per IU or 1/7 of what it would take to even consider reversing type 2 diabetes. Not much but at least it enabled me to drop Metformin that was destroying my kidneys while using the same 50 IU of insulin per day.
This concept has been proposed on these forums before and has only been ridiculed by the "there is no cure for diabetes" people who would rather die of diabetes than make an effort to reverse their condition.
Cola Jim