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"Prediabetes" is a nice euphemism for being fat that helpfully reminds people directly of the danger of being overweight. You can improve your health/diabetic
by fouc 6y ago
"Prediabetes" is a nice euphemism for being fat that helpfully reminds people directly of the danger of being overweight.
You can improve your health/diabetic markers by experimenting with any or all of the following things:
1) Intermittent fasting: reduce your daily period of eating to a 6 or 8 hour window. 16/8 or 18/6. The number of hours without food or sugar or cream or diet pop versus the window of hours that you're allowed to eat during.
2) Water Fasting: Skipping food altogether. For example, a 32 hour fast. Eat dinner, then go the entire next day without food, and then eat breakfast. Regularly doing a 32 hour fast once a week can be incredibly effective. Or do a longer fast once every few months.
3) Low carb (< 20 grams), medium protein, high fat diet. Keto diet.
Why do these things help? Adult onset diabetes generally traces back to insulin sensitivity, and too much insulin in the body. Reducing the amount of insulin in your veins, reducing the insulin spikes, etc all help the body recover back to health.
Highly recommend checking Dr Jason Fung's youtube videos or book.
- rubicon33 6y agoAnd what about if you're naturally skinny, despite eating whatever you want, whenever you want? Is it all about being fat?
- glial 6y agoIndividuals vary. I get my fasting blood glucose and A1c checked regularly, so I have a sense (independent of weight) of diabetes risk.
- rubicon33 6y agoI should probably do the same. It frustrates me to no end that everything is always about weight. Weight I imagine merely a correlating factor, and while certainly bad, isn't the full story. My assumption is that people who eat poorly are somewhere on the insulin resistance spectrum and that includes many negative health impacts, regardless of weight. Curious - do you pay for your blood glucose and A1c checks out of pocket?
- monopoledance 6y agoNo, "skinny fat" is actually detrimental, as your body doesn't handle excess energy well. Your body then stores fat in-between your organs as visceral fat, which is the "I don't know where to put this" kind of panic. The visceral fat is what's really indication of health problems (the "fat fat" people get it too ofc), where subcutaneous fat isn't as unhealthy. Fructose intake (making up at least half the sugars in most sugar sweeteners) isn't metabolized like glucose, with a delicate and specialized load response and processing. It's metabolized like alcohol in the liver and then directly converted to fat, then shoved into the blood stream. Fructose is the reason why you increasingly see non-alcoholics with "alcoholic" fatty liver. Now, when you eat an apple, the fructose content doesn't hurt you (unless your digestive system gets issues with it), because it's processed slowly, has to be broken out of the fiber matrix and is partially broken down by bacteria. However, blending the same apple, the fructose will overload your system all the same as drinking fructose water. Btw. many "healthy sugars" actually have a worse fru:glu ratio than table sugar, e.g. agave syrup or honey.
- WarOnPrivacy 6y agoI'm one of the many folks who experience strong flu like symptoms during fasting. I used to fast 1x-4x a month for a decade or so and it never improved. Productivity was impossible; I just wrote-off the entire day.
- kamikaz1k 6y agoJust curious if you ever supplemented with potassium salts?
- WarOnPrivacy 6y agoI have not.