I have type 1 diabetes. My mom has some interesting "cures" for me.

I see similar stuff recommended for my chronic illness, especially the bone broth. It suggests stuff like drinking it instead of coffee in the morning, sounds disgusting. I'm sorry you have to deal with that, it's annoying seeing it online but it must be awful having to have a family member promoting it too

All of this is dumb, but I am really failing to see how sunning your private parts is supposed to change anything about your pancreas or blood sugar.

So she believes in magic?

Uuuurgh my daughter has a disease that affects the pancreas (she can’t make the enzymes that break down fats, and therefore cannot absorb fat soluble vitamins) and her bone marrow doesn’t work very well either and someone recommended bone broth for it 🙄 at her worst, she was in bone marrow failure - you don’t fix that shit with a cup of soup.

I remember when “the cinnamon challenge” was a thing on Youtube for a while. Didn’t it turn out to be really dangerous?

Also, what do you expose to sunlight if you’re female? Because I’ll gladly burn my nether regions to a crisp if it’ll get my immune system to stop attacking parts of me.

Unless you can regrow a spleen and not have your immune system kill αcells and βcells you are unfortunately stuck with type one.

I would have a doctor explain that to her, and that ingesting different substances will not regrow and reprogram your body.

I get that insulin is expensive in the USA. But there really is no alternative for type one.

i hate to say this but ur mom sounds like she’s falling down the conservative crunchy conspiracy rabbit hole

I don’t know why crunchy Facebook science people are so obsessed with the sun. Right now there’s a whole thing with like if you wear sunscreen and sunglasses you’re not getting sun the right way (??), you need to get 30 minutes of direct sun exposure no sunscreen per day, sunscreen causes cancer not the sun—- this is something my dad believed right up until he got skin cancer and had to get big chunks of his ears cut off, at least they got it in the early stages and all he needed was some bits cut off.

Speaking of which The balls thing sounds similar to “perineum sunning” also known as “taint tanning” where apparently your supposed to go out there and idk, expose your taint to the sun long enough that it cures your shitty vibes or something, but what it actually does is make you vulnerable to skin cancer directly on your genitals, taint, or asshole and honestly the idea of having to get multiple skin biopsies and possibly have skin cancer cut out on any of those areas is a nightmare, you wouldn’t even notice you had it until it was too late because you don’t examine that skin as much.

Also it puts you at risk of getting a sunburn directly on your balls and having to figure out how to walk around with that being rubbed against like every time you move. New form of cock and ball torture just dropped.

Somehow the worst part of this entire post was "bone broth smoothie" 🥲

Damn, your mom and my dad seem to have a lot in common. My dad believes he has the cure for cancer. Which involves eating vegetables… and nothing else. Smh…

I’ve been told the cinnamon thing for my type two diabetes but never heard of it for type one.

Your mom trying to get you to do the cinnamon challenge in 2024 to cure your diabetes is actually so hilarious it’s terrifying.

There actually is some evidence for cinnamon assisting with blood sugar regulation over time. My partner with reactive hypoglycemia takes cinnamon tincture and it helps rein in the worst drops. My friend also gives it to her mom who is T2 and it has helped keep her sugars more in line. Not a cure at all, but kinda... mellows things. My guess is, not super effective for T1 though. Blood sugar's gonna blood sugar.

Eating cinnamon. Just spoonfuls of delicious fucking Ceylon cinnamon.

Yeah, but have you tried cassia? Maybe the problem is that you went for the fancy shit rather than the stuff us plebs use as "cinnamon".

Sitting outside exposing my BALLS to the sunlight.

Not a ball-owner, but... I do enjoy basking in the sun. Especially when its rays warm the parts that don't usually get to see it.

Bone broth mixed with fucking milk and fed to my baby brother.

Well that is fucking nasty.

Ugh God I’ve heard these before lol. Type one for 20 years. Buckle up, there will be more, and from total strangers who think you’re just a fat, lazy slob who wants to be sick so you won’t make lifestyle changes. The worst is when people say “you can’t eat that!” It seems like other people have a harder time believing there isn’t a cure for disabilities and diseases than the person who has them does. I guess they’re in denial that these things can happen to them at any moment, and it’s out of their control whether it sticks around or not.

This is why actual scientists need to be really careful when talking about their research or findings. So that they aren’t taken out of context for this crap.

Type 1 diabetes is rough dude.

Supposedly there is some merit to Dandelion and Burdock00927-1#:~:text=A%20review%20of%20the%20pharmacological%20effects%20of%20Arctium%20lappa%20(burdock).&text=Many%20studies%20have%20demonstrated%20that,found%20in%20several%20subsequent%20studies) root helping with Type 2 and low insulin sensitivity but it tackles the problem in a way that won't help you unfortunately.

Actually there is a brief mention in one of those pages that these herbal remedies could interfere the normal function of diabetes medications. I would be very careful of accepting further help from matriarchal witch doctors in the future.

The best and good luck!

Is that like sunning your butt hole

Type 2 can be "cured" if caught soon enough. Type 1, nope. Never.

I am a nurse that abhors our system of healthcare and uses natural remedies whenever possible. I HATE the pharmaceutical industry. But we have modern medicine for a reason.

Exposing your balls to sunlight is one of the most ridiculous "cures" I've heard of recently. UV in small amounts is very good for human health (vit D production) but your sack is just going to get burned. There is nothing special about that skin that would cause any benefit to this bizarre "cure".

Sorry about your Mom!

oh my god my mom does a similar thing, just for my heart condition! though she never told me to go do anything as bizarre as tanning my testes (though i don’t have any to tan so maybe that is why), some honorable mentions of cures my mom has urged on me: turmeric (she saw it on a fb board), raw veganism and living off kale smoothies (i have an eating disorder she knows about & a protein deficiency that contributes to my symptoms) and my personal favorite, getting off all of my psychiatric AND HEART MEDS.

luckily i am now old enough to just kind of….not take the supplements she gets me and am moving out soon. i hope you can do the same if that is what you want!

how old is your baby brother…?

I mean ... Ceylon cinnamon is really good for you..... But .....

mm baked balls /s

i can't really feel bad for people who believe facebook posts because how do you as an "educated" american, know less than my immigrant dad who couldn't get an education.

The number of ways I’ve been told I could “cure” my epilepsy . . .

Acupuncture, eating less fat, not having wireless internet, etc.

Part of this is just a mothers wish for you not to be sick. Many parents do this when it comes to chronic illness. Just have Grace with it. It’s not evil. It’s just heartbreaking a little.

Oh my god. I feel you. My husband has this orthorexic aunt who is convinced absolutely anything that goes wrong with the body is your fault and all about the almighty inflammation. If I just stopped eating GRAINS and GLUTEN, my diabetes would be cured. If I just took the right insanely expensive and unregulated SUPPLEMENTS, I would be cured. If I just did the right heavy metal detox and blocked all this 5G radiation, I would be cured. And am I REALLY sure I actually need insulin, or am I just stuck in this big-pharma induced cycle of medication, side effect, and then additional meds to cure the side effects? How about I just try not doing any shot for a day or two and see what happens??? Maybe the insulin injections themselves are what’s causing my diabetes. . .

It’s exhausting. And insane.

just to clarify. your mother who birthed you told you to go expose your balls to sunlight?

She hasn't recommended eating colloidal silver yet? 

/s

Try showing this to your mom the next time she suggests cinnamon:

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/side-effects-of-cinnamon#possible-side-effects

Why are Gen x and the boomers so vulnerable to this kind of nonsense?

My father claims that tequila is good for you "because agave" as well as some other pretty strange things.

Cinnamon can actually lower blood sugar. I have to be careful with my cinnamon consumption because it can cause me to pass out.

Sunlight? It’s diabetes, not a vitamin d deficiency 😂 

Bone broth? Might raise your blood pressure dangerously high

I managed to get my grubby mitts on a CGM so it's almost like being normal again. You know, minus the shots and eating less carbs part.

So you live in the United staates?

OMG my grandma swore that if you soaked an egg plant in water and drank the juice, it would control her insulin. The fact that she didn't die immediately without her insulin was her proof that it was working....

i think your mom is qanon sorry

My mom wasn’t perfect, but at least she treated medical problems with medicine and evidence-based care.

I can’t believe how many people can’t comprehend the difference between T1 and T2 diabetes. Especially people with T2! My daughter has T1 and I get the dumbest lectures from older people with T2 about how to eat less.

If she is religious tell her it sounds a lot like witchcraft.

Bone broth is nice, but not by itself! Base for soup, instead of water for rice (that’s properly seasoned also), with ramen noodles (also seasoned!). It’s a base, so sometimes there’s no salt or anything else in it. Doesn’t meant you eat it like that. I’m sorry about the milkshakes—way to ruin ice cream Mom!

Sounds like my mother trying to cure my schizoaffective disorder with essential oils

No no no. Honestly how many times must one correct sich balderdash.The prickly pear slice goes on the foot. The cinnamon stick goes up the nose and good hot english mustard is rubbed on the stomach.

I really hope she doesn't prevent you from getting insulin

Every time ask her if she's a witch and accuse her of trying to turn you into a newt.

Wait, did she just came to you and said "I'm positive that to cure your diabete you need to expose your balls to sunlight" ?

It sounds hella weird hahaha

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease some people have actually reversed it. Your mom wanting you to heal isn’t a bad thing! Boosting your immune system isn’t going to harm you in anyway. Her ways may seem unorthodox but there is some underlying truth to what she wants you to do. Try asking her the why and research the why and maybe a better or more comfortable way to accomplish these things. Like bone broth would be a general way to boost nutrients without any added sugar, sunning your balls and ass she’s trying to boost your vitamin D levels and cinnamon would be trying to lower your blood sugar. Like I said unorthodox and maybe not what you want to do but try to change your perspective to understand where she’s coming from.

I really hope no one needs this fully explained to them. But please, for the love of God, please don't sun your balls. The skin on your genitals/butthole/etc is very sensitive to UV radiation, since it's not meant to be consistently exposed to sunlight like most of our skin. That means you're likely to give yourself skin cancer on your butthole if you expose it to a lot of sunlight. It's called "where the sun don't shine" for a REASON.

Here's an article talking about it some. (It's not the most scientific source, but the research on how UV light affects these areas is basically nonexistent. Probably because willingly giving people skin cancer is VERY unethical.) https://www.vice.com/en/article/epxwy4/does-testicle-tanning-work-is-it-safe-according-to-a-doctor-tucker-carlson-testosterone

OP, just to confirm, you’re the age of majority and have access to your insulin and housing away from her, right?? Kind of worried for you.

Ok do not do the second one. That part of your body is not to be exposed it is not made for that thing. You will experience burns, that skin is not built for it.

I have heard of people largely controlling their diabetes with strength training. You can see a testimonial here for a gentleman who has had some success controlling his diabetes with strength/barbell training along with an improved diet.

Also, sunning my balls sounds heavenly.

What is you are fighting with nonstop, in your head?

Many people have healed from chronic health issues with ayahuasca and shamanism. There are alternative solutions to issues sometimes that can work but it’s hard to say.