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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)
#52I 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…
You can also just get regular testing kit on Amazon for $30 that comes with a lancer, test strips, and monitoring device. I bought one recently precisely after reading a headline like this to keep an eye on myself.
Yes, but you will also quickly learn why diabetics complain about this method of testing.
Re: More than 100M Americans have diabetes or prediabetes (2017)
#53"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?
Individuals vary. I get my fasting blood glucose and A1c checked regularly, so I have a sense (independent of weight) of diabetes risk.
Re: More than 100M Americans have diabetes or prediabetes (2017)
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And what about if you're naturally skinny, despite eating whatever you want, whenever you want? Is it all about being fat?
Individuals vary. I get my fasting blood glucose and A1c checked regularly, so I have a sense (independent of weight) of diabetes risk.
I 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?
Re: More than 100M Americans have diabetes or prediabetes (2017)
#55"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.
Just curious if you ever supplemented with potassium salts?
Re: More than 100M Americans have diabetes or prediabetes (2017)
#56I 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…
How much coffee do you drink?
Re: More than 100M Americans have diabetes or prediabetes (2017)
#57How 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...…
There seems to be many reported ways to reduce Diabetes Type 2 issues. Most of them involve the reduction of insulin related foods. Carnivore, Keto, Vegetarian etc (without processed grains), and of course caloric restriction/control via IF.
Personally my preferences involve eating meat, and Keto was exception good at reducing my blood sugar, and many other medical issues such as hypertension. I did think about going vegetarian, but it just doesn't suit my situation.
Re: More than 100M Americans have diabetes or prediabetes (2017)
#58I 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 effec…
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Re: More than 100M Americans have diabetes or prediabetes (2017)
#59I 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 effec…
Same, on almost all counts. Two things helped: add a 1-2 hr (moderately intense, definitely sweating) bike ride at end of fast time, shower, cook, eat SLOWLY. Like slowly enough you could carry on a phone conversation without being rude. Heck, try a phone call quite literally, it’s not like we’re going to HHs nowadays!
Limit your fasting coffee intake as well or part of it could be caffeine/sleep crash.
Re: More than 100M Americans have diabetes or prediabetes (2017)
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
How much coffee do you drink?
Usually a half a cup of fairly weak, instant espresso. Lately I've been increasing it but it doesn't do anything. I'm generally sensitive to caffeine so I drink my usual half-cup over 4-5 hours and sometimes fail to finish it. My genetics indicate I'm a fast metabolizer of caffeine.