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Unfortunately, join the club. I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. My initial fasting glucose was 161 and a1c was 7.1 . Not prediabates, but full on type 2.
by kefka 11y ago
Unfortunately, join the club.
I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. My initial fasting glucose was 161 and a1c was 7.1 . Not prediabates, but full on type 2.
So what does the GP say? "Here's some metformin. Oh look, high blood pressure. Here's some statins."
So, what do I do? Certainly not the doctor's advice. He didn't even give me the correct blood-sugar level in which damage is known to be caused (neurons die at 140mg/dL, no ifs ands or buts). Doc said 150mg/dL.
I've posted recently in what I'm doing, but esentially comes down to diet. Turns out that net carbs (or total carbs-fiber) is what causes my body to go haywire. Cutting down to about 10-20g carbs has done well for me.
Since doing only pure diet, 6 days is what it took for my body to start to noticeably fix itself. Now, my blood sugar doesn't go over 120, and my wake-up (fasting) glucose has tested at 100 the last 2 days.
Look up "Eating to the meter". If you can't measure, you can't reliably react and project. It's what I'm doing, and it's working. I have my data to prove it.
- boothead 11y agoThanks for sharing. I've taken a similar approach: cut all crap out of my diet and now in ketosis (according to urine strips). Ultimately this might not be the fix for me, and I might have to add some other interventions (like replacing saturated fat with polyunsaturated fat if I turn out to metabolize SFA poorly) but I'm also convinced that the primary fix must be dietary/lifestyle with some limited support from medication if necessary.
- dualogy 11y ago> if I turn out to metabolize SFA poorly Is that a thing? Humans metabolizing Saturated Fats badly? I mean, I know of gall-bladder deterioration after maybe years of very-low-fat eating, but other than that. Would these people also weirdly burn their own body fat (saturated) "badly"? ;)
- boothead 11y agoIt would seem so: http://eatingacademy.com/cholesterol-2/random-finding-plus-pi http://eatingacademy.com/cholesterol-2/random-finding-plus-p... I think that's essentially what a diagnosis of familial hypercholesterolemia means. Likewise people seem to vary widely in their ability to handle high carb diets. I guess a cookie cutter approach doesn't really work across the board.
- dualogy 11y agoCholesterol worries or issues in a lab panel may be troublesome, but the actual-process of fat metabolization (or any of the stages digestion, absorption, circulation, utilization, storage, burning, recycling) being "bad" compared to others/most I still haven't specifically seen mentioned including in the above. High carb diets of course that's common. But saturated fat, you know, it's simply what fueled the ice ages!
- atomical 11y agoIt's curious you don't find this author biased.
- boothead 11y agoI don't find him biased because he's balanced, when he doesn't know he says so and he backs up everything he says with rigorous literature. Peter is also the president of NUSI (http://nusi.org/solving-the-problem/ http://nusi.org/solving-the-problem/), and as such dedicated to objective dietary science. In addition he's well respected by others whose work I also admire.
- briHass 11y agoThat's an interesting statement considering you like to use links from nutritionfacts.org, written and run by a questionable [1][2] indivdual, Michael Gregor with an obvious bias towards vegetarian/vegan diets. [1]https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/death-as-a-foodborne-illness-curable-by-veganism/ https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/death-as-a-foodborne-il... [2] http://www.humanewatch.org/hsus_doc_exposed_as_schlock/ http://www.humanewatch.org/hsus_doc_exposed_as_schlock/