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Low carb diet leads to “clinical remission” in 3 cases of type 1 diabetes
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#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
With this regimen, you would simply do as your blood sugar numbers direct. It sounds like these patients were measuring and found their glucose to be too low if they took any insulin. In that case, it is safe to stop if coordinated with a doctor. There shouldn’t be any point where a decision is made to drop insulin permanently while your reads are high. Even if stopping insulin prematurely, low carb would mean low ri…
> With this regimen, you would simply do as your blood sugar numbers direct. That's true of every regimen, though.
The person I replied to seemed to think that the regimen directed to quit insulin without support from the numbers, leading to diabetic ketoacidosis.
Re: Low carb diet leads to “clinical remission” in 3 cases of type 1 diabetes
#113I'm a type 1 diabetic and find these articles and studies frustrating. Or at least the way people interpret them. > Two weeks after adopting the low carb approach insulin was no longer needed. After 18 months insulin therapy was once again required at low doses of around 16 units per day. HbA1c remained very well controlled on the LCHF diet with insulin. So during the honeymoon period, he was able to live without ins…
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I’m also a T1D. I assure you, lots of diabetics have tried keto diets. It doesn’t put the disease “in remission”. That’s not how the disease works.
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#114@dang can we have the title changed or something? Most of the diabetics in this thread (yourself included) agree that the title is misleading at best and simply false at worst.
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#115I was on a low-carb diet for a while. Loved it. Felt great. Was totally fit. All my digestive problems cleared up. I would never get "hangry". By every single subjective measure my quality of life and sense of well-being improved. Then I got my cholesterol checked during a routine blood work and it was through the roof. WTF? Anyone know better than me about this?
I'm someone with a family history of CVD, so the only way I would try a low-carb diet is if I ate food that doesn't have clinical evidence for raising cholesterol, blood pressure, etc. That meant eating only a small amount of saturated fat, and limiting palmitic acid in particular, and only small amounts of table salt balanced with other minerals like potassium chloride. I'd eat a lot of salad, nuts, fish, and the on…
Sounds like your following an AIP diet.
Fantastic for dealing with inflammation.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
You must not know too many people that have taken statins... Sure, on paper, the LDL number goes down and according to the numbers you have a lower risk of heart attack, but the one common thing I've notice is that everyone complains that they feel terrible. Things like dizziness, nausea, low energy/libido, etc... Let's not forget that it takes mainstream science time to catch up to new research. There is a lag in ex…
> That being said, lipidology is extremely complex but in the case of low carbohydrate diets the issue of having high LDL and HDL may not be as bad as mainstream medicine would make it out to be. I'd 100% agree with this. But "your cholesterol sky rocketing a good sign" is not something the evidence currently shows. > that everyone complains that they feel terrible. Things like dizziness, nausea, low energy/libido, e…
> I'd 100% agree with this. But "your cholesterol sky rocketing a good sign" is not something the evidence currently shows.
"sky-rocketing" is a definite over-exaggeration here.
I would be curious to see what your response is to the link I posted in another comment here.
I am wondering how people that still reference these dated outlooks on cholesterol can explain why there is insufficient evidence of higher cardiovascular disease rates in those with high LDL in the presence of high HDL and low triglycerides, commonly called the "lipid triad"?
https://cholesterolcode.com/a-dialog-on-the-lipid-triad-with...
What the parent comment initially stated would lead me to believe that he falls into this lipid triad group and if I was in his shoes I would tell any doctor that recommended a statin to f* off if I had just started feeling the best I'd ever had in my life.
Also, can you send me some research for your points about statins having an increase in cognitive function? My understanding was that many were arguing the opposite and some meta-reviews I read on the topic suggested that more evidence was needed to make any clear observations.
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so. this is so general that it’s not helpful. what ranges are we talking about? also, when people talk about cholesterol they usually don’t mean cholesterol they mean lipi-proteins that carry the cholesterol through the blood (cholesterol needs this as it’s hydrophobic). LDL from those lipo-proteins is definitely correlated with heart disease. Here, read about it in more detail than you probably need to know: https:/…
LDL is correlated but not causative and it's been discovered that HDL is a much better indicator. Take a look at this book: https://www.amazon.com/Big-Fat-Surprise-Butter-Healthy/dp/14... It goes into it quite a bit more -- cholesterol is a _terrible_ indicator of overall health. This is well known in the Keto community.
And the opposite is well known in the Whole Foods Plant-Based community.
I don’t have a horse in this race but appeals to authority when it comes to the science of diet are highly suspect.
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It’s not without tradeoffs. There’s a substantial overlap between T1 and CHD, and the impacts of keto on CHD in non-normal populations (hyper-responders, metabolic patients) are even more poorly understood than they are in the general population. Lowering carbs is one thing; LCHF is an entirely different beast (and I say this both as a T1 and a T1 who tried LCHF for nearly a year). It’s an option for some, but billin…
What does CHD stand for in this context?
Coronary heart disease. CVD (cardiovascular disease) may be more appropriate as it’s less specific but still covers the linkage between the two conditions.
http://journal.diabetes.org/diabetesspectrum/99v12n2/pg81.ht...