I have to agree that hypoglycemia is mostly likely an early stage of diabetes. I was hypoglycemic in college and then 8 years later became diabetic.
I haven't had my glucose tolerance tested in quite some time, so it's hard to say whether or not that has gotten better, but I do know that I can keep my blood sugars normal around the clock as long as I stick with low carb.



I'm one of those who has been able to stop my medications. I honestly haven't been willing to test whether or not I can go higher carb as long as I'm still trying to lose weight. The fact that I've had a couple of hypoglcemic episodes tells me that I am getting more sensitive to the insulin that I produce. Once I get to maintainance, I plan on trying to slowly increase my daily carb allowance to see what my body can tolerate at that point. I'm hoping to be able to get to 40-50 grams of carb per day, but would be more than content to stay at 30 if that's all my body can handle.
I believe that Dr. Schwarzbein believes that insulin resistance can be reversed, but I think how long it will take and if it will happen at all depends on a lot of variables like you mentioned above.