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More than 100M Americans have diabetes or prediabetes (2017)

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Re: More than 100M Americans have diabetes or prediabetes (2017)

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Post by 01100011 »

antisocial wrote: post #34

I hope to see enough studies to convince people about the effectiveness of intermittent fasting, all natural and no side-effects. https://www.amazon.com/Diabetes-Code-Prevent-Reverse-Natural...

Intermittent fasting(16/8) was the start of what seem to be blood sugar related issues for me. Ever since I tried it, I get insanely tired after a meal. I had bouts of hypoglycemia as a kid, but that resolved until after trying IF. Now my blood sugar regulation seems wonky. My fatigue is worse since then as well. I've checked my glucose levels when the fatigue hits and they're fine(<120mg/dL). IF didn't have an effect on my weight either.

Re: More than 100M Americans have diabetes or prediabetes (2017)

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Post by fouc »

"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 (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.

Re: More than 100M Americans have diabetes or prediabetes (2017)

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Post by TheAnswerMan »

Anand_S wrote: post #38

How many of these are due to unhealthy American Diets and how many of them can easily be cured by a simple whole foods plant based diet. There are so many reports coming out now that diet (mostly a whole foods plant based diet) can reverse diabetes and that too in a short time. People heal faster when they remove the root cause of the problem. (bad diet) https://nutritionfacts.org/2019/10/08/how-not-to-die-from-di...…

Would you consider rice to be "whole food plant based"? Populations that eat rice as a staple tend to get diabetes.

Re: More than 100M Americans have diabetes or prediabetes (2017)

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Post by WarOnPrivacy »

01100011 wrote: post #37
hirundo wrote: post #4

I highly recommend getting a continuous glucose monitor and wearing it for at least a few weeks. I was able to find a model at about $35/week, which required a prescription (US). You can quickly get a good idea about how different foods and exercises affect your blood glucose. For me it was fun and motivating. It's helped a lot to put my diabetes into complete remission. The improvement in my daily quality of life is…

I'd love to see what my insulin levels do throughout the day. I have a lot of issues which feel like they're blood sugar related(extreme fatigue after meals, "brain fog", low energy, sleepy all the time but my apnea and nighttime SpO2 is fine, bouts of feeling hypoglycemic), but every time I've checked my glucose levels they're normal. I suspect I am becoming insulin resistant but I'm not sure. Things seemed to reall…

That sounds a lot like residual effects of Epstein-Barr/Mono and/or Lyme disease.

Re: More than 100M Americans have diabetes or prediabetes (2017)

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Post by rubicon33 »

fouc wrote: post #42

"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 y…

And what about if you're naturally skinny, despite eating whatever you want, whenever you want? Is it all about being fat?

Re: More than 100M Americans have diabetes or prediabetes (2017)

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Post by WarOnPrivacy »

fouc wrote: post #42

"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 y…

I'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.

Re: More than 100M Americans have diabetes or prediabetes (2017)

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Post by sjg007 »

WarOnPrivacy wrote: post #39
hirundo wrote: post #4

I highly recommend getting a continuous glucose monitor and wearing it for at least a few weeks. I was able to find a model at about $35/week, which required a prescription (US). You can quickly get a good idea about how different foods and exercises affect your blood glucose. For me it was fun and motivating. It's helped a lot to put my diabetes into complete remission. The improvement in my daily quality of life is…

> I was able to find a model at about $35/week, which required a prescription (US). Can I get a prescription at Walmart? Asking because I'm in one of the several states where the cost of healthcare exceeds total earnings. I suppose it's off to the black market to see what's available - same as everyone else around here.

If your are serious I'd suggest a community clinic and apart from that insulin strips. It's not continuous but ballpark.

Re: More than 100M Americans have diabetes or prediabetes (2017)

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Post by paulsparkn »

LinuxBender wrote: post #3
paulsparkn wrote: post #2

I’m in Australia we unfortunately mimic the US when it comes to many health ailments - my girlfriend has T1 diabetes. I am offended with the intentionally slow roll when it comes to artificial pancreas solution development... moreso, the regulatory hurdles these products are being held up in. That said, there is a willing hacker community around CGM solutions that can be dove into that yields pretty awesome results i…

On the plus side, your country has some great scientists that are making some progress in changing your governments stance on health, albeit very slowly which I think speaks to your point about hurdles. One of my favorite Youtube channels is "Low Carb Down Under" and they often have great scientists speaking on these topics. [1] [1] - https://www.youtube.com/c/lowcarbdownunder/videos

Thx! I’ll definitely sub up to the channel and follow along.

Re: More than 100M Americans have diabetes or prediabetes (2017)

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Post by paulsparkn »

disabled wrote: post #10
hirundo wrote: post #4

I highly recommend getting a continuous glucose monitor and wearing it for at least a few weeks. I was able to find a model at about $35/week, which required a prescription (US). You can quickly get a good idea about how different foods and exercises affect your blood glucose. For me it was fun and motivating. It's helped a lot to put my diabetes into complete remission. The improvement in my daily quality of life is…

This. If you are in the US, you want a Freestyle Libre 2, which costs what you state, with coupons: $35/week In the European Union, the Freestyle Libre 3 is available and is far better technology than the Freestyle Libre 2, for a variety of reasons. This also does not require a prescription in Europe. Because I cannot get a Freestyle Libre 3 in Croatia, I order the Freestyle Libre 3 from Abbott Diabetes Care in Germa…

Really interesting. Thanks for sharing your experience!

In Australia we only have access to the Libre 1. Which is both frustrating as I’d like my girlfriend to have the ease of the Libre 2/3 (bluetooth etc) but it’s tolerable given the more open nature of the first iteration where we double the function life - essentially halving the high cost.

I’m looking at grabbing a Bubble glucose monitor (https://www.bubblan.org/) that adds bluetooth functionality to the Libre 1 amongst other monitoring etc.

Have you looked into OpenAPS / AndroidAPS to move away from the Dexcom? Still learning so this may be an overly simplistic question.

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