JTolli,
I am not sure how to answer that. Years ago, before I started with the ICES, I was a junk food junkie and also was high-fat in my diet and high-fat, plus sugar led to so many symptoms of diabetes, which I had my head buried in the sand about. I had horizontal nail ridges, seriously freaky eye problems (and I am not talking vision) I was thirsty all the time and had such brain problems and other symptoms of out-of-control diabetes, including neuropathy, but I didn’t get tested back then. I went Whole Food Plant-Based, no oil and that diet has a mechanism to reverse Type 2 Diabetes in a few weeks and neuropathy goes away. Dr. Barnard is one of the doctors who tested it and he has a book on how to do it that way. (Note to the Keto people, there are different ways to do things and there is a site called Mastering Diabetes.org and that is the Whole Food Plant-Based method, which is run by a Type 1 Diabetic who lowered his sugar going high-carb. There are something like 3500 people who are part of that community. Many of them switched from Keto and got rid of insulin resistance that way. Again, I know that there is a war between those two communities, but there is more than one way to do things.)
Anyway, all of my Diabetes symptoms went away, including the neuropathy.
There is a study, where 21 diabetics who had neuropathy for up to 10 years, 17 of the 21 people had their neuropathy improve within a few weeks. I think it was 4 to 16 days.
Whole Food Plant-Based tends to be good for pain-relief, and pretty good for reversing Type 2 Diabetes and the Mastering Diabetes site considers it good for Type 1 Diabetes, but I don’t understand the mechanism for that. I do understand the mechanism for Type 2 Diabetes. For most people, it turns out that their pancreas was filled with fat, which was plugging things up. Once the fat starts to come out, their Beta Cells work again and suddenly people can eat high-carb and not spike their blood sugar. Water fasting can accomplish the same thing.
I did watch a documentary where they took a group of Diabetics and that one was raw vegan and all but one of the people were off their insulin within a week. The one who couldn’t get off was a Type 1 Diabetic, but his need for insulin dropped much lower.
And, yes, many people get off of insulin going Keto, too, by a different mechanism, but my diabetic friends who tried Keto weren’t disciplined enough in their eating and Keto can increase insulin resistance, so if people cheat they end up in trouble and that is what happened with my close friends.
I got rid of my neuropathy and one of my friends who was probably never in Ketosis, and some people can’t genetically get in Ketosis in the first place, but she has really bad neuropathy now.
Oh, I was going to add about the ICES. It increases circulation to the limbs and that is critical with Diabetes. Genuinely critical. I had lent mine to my cousin who is a Diabetic and a smoker just for the purpose of increasing blood flow to his fingers and toes.
Also, there is one testimonial on-line with someone with Diabetes who had kidney issues and his lab results improved using PEMF.