To put my thoughts in order, I’ve decided to summarise my view on type 2 reversal and what it means. Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is often considered a life-long, irreversible, progressive disease. People newly diagnosed are told that that’s it, they have diabetes for the rest of their life,…
Treating T2 diabetes isn’t easy. It requires information, research, planning, monitoring, adjusting, and sacrifice. There is no one size fits all. You have to take into account your objectives, your body, the advancement of the disease, your personality, etc. Making a plan that works for you is a big job…
Now that my HbA1c has been stable for 8 months without any medication, I consider that I’m entering phase 3 of treatment. Phase 1 was weight loss, glycaemia control, increasing insulin sensitivity for 6 months. During that time, my HbA1c went from 7.5+% to 5.0%, I lost 40kg, I fixed…
A lot of T2 diabetics are focused on their blood glucose levels. They monitor it and they want medication that will make it go down. But that’s the wrong thing to focus on. Kinda. Blood glucose is a side effect of what the problem really is. High blood glucose, i.e.…
As it’s summer and it’s hot (we often hover in the upper 30sC), we eat mostly salads at the moment. But it doesn’t have to be boring, there are a lot of combinations you can use. First, breakfast and the traditional eggs. During the morning I took my blood pressure…
Once I was kicked out of the subreddit /r/diabetes_t2, the mods went through all my comments to add their own reply. To every one of them. That comment said: diabetes_t2-ModTeamMODST2 Diabetes can’t be cured or reversed. Put into remission, yes. Controlled, absolutely… but once a diabetic, always a diabetic. It…
It’s not an experiment I would have wanted to run, but as it happened, i thought I might as well keep an eye on what was going on. Yesterday, immediately after lunch I started to feel queasy. About 20 minutes later, I was vomiting my lunch. I was sick for…
I’ve been permanently banned from the /r/diabetes_t2 subreddit because one of my posts “violates this community’s rules”. I can’t see which rules and they don’t specify (how convenient). My experience of Reddit diabetic communities is that they are run by and are full of people who desperately don’t want to…
I wrote this post to start a new Reddit community on reversing diabetes. I grew tired of the other communities where the credo is that diabetes is forever, that it can’t be reversed, and that it can only get worse. This isn’t supported by recent research, isn’t my experience, and…
This is the first year anniversary of my diabetes diagnosis. To celebrate, I had a quarterly blood test done this morning. The results are in: fasting sugar 86mg/dl, HbA1c 5.4% (down from 5.44% the last time). So, everything is still good, post-diabetes is sticking as expected. Below is a graph…
The one thing that I’m still not entirely happy eating is rice. Pasta, wheat, and everything else doesn’t spike me much anymore. But rice keeps my blood sugar high for a long time. For example, the other night I ate a big bowl of rice and vegetables with breaded “chicken”…