Basics, Glycemia

Basics: diabetes and stress

So you’ve switched your diet to a proper human diet with low carb, you do your daily exercise, and you were hoping your blood glucose levels would go down fast. But they seem to resist and stay up. One other factor in onset of diabetes and then high glycaemia is…

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Day To Day, Recipes

Day to day: a day in my food

Here is another day of food for me with glycaemia numbers. This time it’s a Saturday. For breakfast I had 2 eggs. I really like eggs, they’re good for you (mostly) and they don’t make my blood sugar spike at all. In fact it sometimes goes down compared to before…

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Basic: lung damage

We already knew that diabetes can create liver, pancreas, kidney, brain, skin, and extremeties damage. There was evidence that it was also linked to lung damage. It wasn’t clear however that the link was causation, not just correlation. It was announced at the DUKPC conference today that a meta study…

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Basics: my readings are normal, I’m ok right?

I regularly see people on reddit asking other members to diagnose them based on a few glucometer readings. The expectation being that if your glucometer doesn’t show massive spikes after you eat, you’re fine. No diabetes. No need to worry. The bad news is that it’s not that simple. We…

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Basics: can T2DM be reversed?

A discussion that comes back a lot in diabetes forums is whether T2 diabetes can be “reversed”. Heated debates concentrate on deciding if it is a possibility or simply a mirage that leads to disappointment. A lot of it is a matter of definitions. Many people use “remission” to avoid…

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Basics: duration of remission

So you’ve worked hard at controlling your T2 diabetes: you’ve lost weight, you exercise, you’ve lowered your fasting blood glucose, and you don’t spike as much when you eat. You’ve switched back to a normal human diet. you’re not using any medication, and everything is fine. Yay! You’re in remission.…

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Day To Day, Glycemia

Day to day: pizza anyone?

Lately I was in the South of Spain and we needed to have lunch while we were out of the house. Normally we rent self-catering accommodation so that we can control my diet. However, that time we had to be away for an appointment and we didn’t have time to…

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Basics: is it genetic?

I’ve seen lots of people saying that the cause of T2DM is genetic. usually as a way to deny responsibility in the condition: if it’s genetics, there is nothing they can do about it, and therefore there is nothing they need to do. They have diabetes, and that’s it, they’re…

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