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I was diagnosed with Diabetes 2 years ago. As soon as I found out I immediately changed my diet. 0 carbs My blood sugar would still go too high. My fasting bloo
by UI_at_80x24 2y ago
I was diagnosed with Diabetes 2 years ago.
As soon as I found out I immediately changed my diet.
0 carbs
My blood sugar would still go too high.
My fasting blood sugar (first reading in the morning after waking up. "12+hr fasting") was often the highest of the day.
I spent the next 14 months trying different drugs to mitigate my blood sugar levels.
So one day out of desperation I asked my Doctor if i could try ozempic.
It worked INCREDIBLY well.
I started adding carbs back into my diet.
My blood sugar stayed in good shape.
I started loosing weight too.
Before Ozempic and going 0-carbs I lost ~20lbs over 14 months.
After taking Ozempic I have lost ~80lbs.
I still STRONGLY desire sugar/sugary foods.
My cravings for bread is really bad too.
Ozempic controlled my sugar so well that I have been able to add carbs back into my life.
- talldatethrow 2y agoMy dad was like you. At age 61 I finally got him to try 90 days of only fresh home squeezed/extracted vegetable juice. Technically all his calories those 3 months came from the sugars in the vegetables (celery, beets, carrots, cucumbers, tomato, orange). All his markers improved, even diabetic markers, and blood pressure. He's off the 3 meds he was on.
- wil421 2y agoI trust the other poster who worked with his doctor rather than a juice poster. I’d bet your dad is my like father-in-law, any type of restrictive diet for 90 days would be helpful.
- skrtskrt 2y agodecades of medical research vs. a senior citizen on their first juice cleanse
- talldatethrow 2y agoPopulation that spends more every decade and gets less healthy, vs senior citizen that gets off all his meds by changing his eating habits by trying juice for 90 days. Gotta go with the tried and trusted med industry.
- Log_out_ 2y agojuices are just natural ingredients only sodas. might aswell take the original .
- talldatethrow 2y agoFor sure. Pepsi, or beet juice. Same thing! And if you eat them whole, I bet they're just like candy too in your opinion!
- talldatethrow 2y agoDefinitely. I'm not saying that 10 lbs of vegetables a day is healthy or anything. That would be crazy. You gotta add processed hormone injected meats, boiled dairy, and preservatives to get a healthy balanced diet.
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- ddorian43 2y agoDid you measure 1 hour after wake up? At wakeup there's the "dawn effect" where glucose rises/ketones fall. What diet did you really try? Keto diet is known to ~easily fix T2D. A good company that can do that is virtahealth.com. The only way to quit drugs (sugar) is to no take drugs at all, not take less drugs. Source: I do keto diet but for other reasons. I was addicted to carbs, but not fat, and am no more. I would end up as T2D in 10-20 years though. If I restart carbs I will get addicted again.
- djur 2y agoYour own personal experience is not a "source" for what is easy, hard, possible or impossible for other people.
- sfjailbird 2y agoIs it even possible to have high blood sugar while eating zero carbs? You could be catabolising muscle mass but that would be a case of extreme malnutrition and/or type 1 diabetes. These drugs fix symptoms only, and only for ad long as you keep using them. They have adverse effects, and probably well beyond the published ones. Most signs point to T2D being caused by insulin resistance, which builds up through bad diet and lifestyle. You can 'fix' symptoms by forcing the body to pump out more insulin, but science and common sense would indicate that this could end up worse off in the long run.
- djur 2y ago> probably well beyond the published ones What is this claim based on?
- advisedwang 2y agoYou can eat fat and get energy from that.
- user_7832 2y ago> Is it even possible to have high blood sugar while eating zero carbs? To the best of my knowledge, glucagon releasing glucose (from glycogen) allows the liver to make glucose even if no carbs have been consumed.