History: diagnosed 6+ years ago borderline diabetic, lost weight and exercise brought me back to normal where I remain, still eating sensibly and keeping up with my 70,000 steps per week.
Fasting and 2 hour PP almost always still pretty good (except on odd occasions when hitting carbs a bit hard) of 4.7 to 5.0
I still monitor once or twice a week, being cautious as there is a serious family history of T2.
Recently, my SO and I have started a daily small bottle of probiotic (Yakult, since it on discount) at her suggestion, and I kept forgetting mine, so a couple of weeks ago started a regime of taking it immediately before heading up to bed.
The first couple of occasions I tested fasting after that, I was unusually low at 4.1 and 4.2 - bearing in mind my usual range, I started testing fasting more frequently.
Apart from one reading of 5.1, every single fasting reading in two weeks has been 4.0 to 4.3
Now I've read that some people respond well to a small carby snack at bed time, to suppress the dawn phenomenon and I see that this particular probiotic has 9.2g of sugar in it. There is a lower cal version with 3.6g, so I'll try switching to that on the next supply run.
I'm assuming that it is just the carbs that cause this effect, but it'll be interesting to see if the low sugar version is any different.
Perhaps it is improving the health of my intestinal flora that is having an effect in some way - but I didn't notice any obvious effect in the previous couple of weeks of intermittent use, taken mostly at lunchtime.
Fasting and 2 hour PP almost always still pretty good (except on odd occasions when hitting carbs a bit hard) of 4.7 to 5.0
I still monitor once or twice a week, being cautious as there is a serious family history of T2.
Recently, my SO and I have started a daily small bottle of probiotic (Yakult, since it on discount) at her suggestion, and I kept forgetting mine, so a couple of weeks ago started a regime of taking it immediately before heading up to bed.
The first couple of occasions I tested fasting after that, I was unusually low at 4.1 and 4.2 - bearing in mind my usual range, I started testing fasting more frequently.
Apart from one reading of 5.1, every single fasting reading in two weeks has been 4.0 to 4.3
Now I've read that some people respond well to a small carby snack at bed time, to suppress the dawn phenomenon and I see that this particular probiotic has 9.2g of sugar in it. There is a lower cal version with 3.6g, so I'll try switching to that on the next supply run.
I'm assuming that it is just the carbs that cause this effect, but it'll be interesting to see if the low sugar version is any different.
Perhaps it is improving the health of my intestinal flora that is having an effect in some way - but I didn't notice any obvious effect in the previous couple of weeks of intermittent use, taken mostly at lunchtime.
