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For those of you on the cusp of diabetes, immediately start working out intensely and reduce your sugar intake. There is still time! It’s not inevitable
Healthly lifestyle (exercise, diet, ...) can help T1D management, but T1D is an autoimmune disease: our bodies literally destroyed the cells in our pancreas that produce insulin.
My dad had a strange case of Type-1 diabetes that manifested later in life, at the same time he also got hit with rheumatoid arthritis. > injecting insulin ~15min before you start eating would do wonders for neutralizing the BG spike, the issue is, nobody does it, My dad did. Yeah, it did cause a couple scares. He had very well-controlled numbers but it was all-consuming and I can’t imagine the average person being a…
Both T1D and RA are autoimmune, so it's not surprising they showed up around the same time. He was probably infected with a virus a few years earlier which caused the production of auto-antibodies; Epstein-Barr and CMV are famous for this, and it takes a few years for enough damage to take place that symptoms show up. (Symptomatic T1D starts at around 90% beta cell loss.)
I would suggest to drink psyllium husk mixed with water, 15 minutes every meal. It would prevent glucose spikes which is the number cause for diabetis, lowers cholesterol level, regulates bowel movement and it is also an instant relief during hyperacidity.
>Aside: what do you .NET folks use nowadays? Winforms lol, it just works and I don't have to spend most of my time trying to work out xaml stuff. Just add the components to the window, set up some event handlers, done
AvaloniaUI is nice and a commonly recommended choice nowadays if you are targeting desktop. It is interesting that the author chose to use Elm to describe C# code. If it is their preference, they could have gotten all that with writing the "core" of the project with F#, without having to change examples neither in the actual implementation nor in the blog post (the author does mention F# but not whether they looked i…
A friend of mine had to take insulin dose daily. Talking around with people, he found out that diet with carbon hydrates (bread, potato, rice…) increased blood sugar. For the past few years, he is now on keto diet and eats 2-3 eggs per day, due to some missing aminoacyd (not entirely sure why). His blood sugar is normal and he doesn’t have to take insulin anymore. If anyone needs some more info, contact and I can ask…
> A friend of mine had to take insulin dose daily. Talking around with people, he found out that diet with carbon hydrates (bread, potato, rice…) increased blood sugar. I'm confused. Is your a friend a diabetic whose doctor never told them that carbs increase their blood sugar level? Because this isn't exactly hidden knowledge for diabetics.
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AvaloniaUI is nice and a commonly recommended choice nowadays if you are targeting desktop. It is interesting that the author chose to use Elm to describe C# code. If it is their preference, they could have gotten all that with writing the "core" of the project with F#, without having to change examples neither in the actual implementation nor in the blog post (the author does mention F# but not whether they looked i…
Yeah, I do have some passing experience with both F# and C#, and since the example code provided by the university was in C#, I kept that code and built on it. But I would have felt better in F#.
There's an Elmish FuncUI extension for Avalonia that lets you write applications in Elm style: https://github.com/fsprojects/Avalonia.FuncUI/tree/master/sr...
(a caveat applies that it is very niche compared to regular Avalonia let alone WinForms or WPF, so the options for idiomatic graphing ui controls might be scarce)
Not a diabetic and I live in one of the richest countries with a social medical system, but the medical industry is an abject failure. My experience with most Doctors who are not surgeons has mostly been that are overpaid for doing essentially nothing and think all their patients are hypochondriacs.
My experience is that GPs are over-worked, under paid (given their responsibilities), and can only afford to do shallow diagnostic in the 5-10 minutes they've got per patient. That's explained by a slow but relentless dismantling of any operational margin that existed in the system, whether it's financial, time etc.
I'm talking about the situation in France and the UK, not sure where you are, my point is that I agree about the system failing us, there's a lot to be said about what could be done but that's outside my area of expertise. I'm just being a little nicer to the doctors, as there's only so much they can do given the means they're given.
Not a diabetic and I live in one of the richest countries with a social medical system, but the medical industry is an abject failure. My experience with most Doctors who are not surgeons has mostly been that are overpaid for doing essentially nothing and think all their patients are hypochondriacs.
I also lived in two of the richest countries with a social medical system My experience is that GPs are over-worked, under paid (given their responsibilities), and can only afford to do shallow diagnostic in the 5-10 minutes they've got per patient. That's explained by a slow but relentless dismantling of any operational margin that existed in the system, whether it's financial, time etc. I'm talking about the situat…
Then afterwards they are put into position where they have 30 minutes for patients (in France its ridiculous 15 mins, saving money = worse diagnosis/treatment, no way around it). Don't expect miracles if they see 20 folks like you daily, ideally with very vague problems like chest pain which can be anything from sprained muscle due to bad sleeping position last night to heart attack, while having 10 other comorbidities and taking various medication.
Doctors behave as whole system forces them to behave.
How come the disease gets so little publicity??