Hi about 7 years ago I was diagnosed with being on the verge of Type 2 diabetes and a test a few month later confirmed that I needed to control my diet as now above the considered limit for having diabetes.
I controlled this successfully for 7 years but for a couple of weeks before and whilst on holiday in Spain I felt unwell but being the stubborn person I am said nothing to my wife even when she and a friend kept asking what was wrong with me. Not only did I feel unwell but was constantly parched. In the end whilst on a trip to Gibraltar her friend said we were not leaving until I told them my problem. They took me straight to a chemist who tested my blood and told my wife to get me to a hospital asap as my reading was off the scale and I was lucky not to be in a coma.
The hospital confirmed the readings as being life threatening and immediately put me on drips and injections several times a day of insulin. They only allowed me to go after three days because we had a flight booked home and on the condition that I saw my doctor immediately.
The initial blood test with my doctor came back very high still (they told me the one in Spain had been in the 90's) but they put me on tablets and over a few days I was on 2 x 1000mgs of Sukkario and 2 mgs of Glimepride with horrid side effects but my blood tests in the main were staying under the 20's.
Both my doctor and the Spanish hospital had queried what had changed so much over the last 3 months as they said it had shown a gradual increase to that level and was not normal to happen like that. At the time I could not think of anything.
When I was first diagnosed my doctor recommended I take statins as well but I didn't like the side effects and discontinued taking them. I replaced them with something else that I considered would help my cholesterol level which was not high anyway and continued to take this for about 6 years, on average 4 times a week.
After a blood test last October my cholesterol was only 3.9 and the "good" had also come to a very acceptable level. My sugar level on whatever scale they use was only 46. Coupled with the fact that at times I had difficulty finding the variation of this ingredient that I wanted , Christmas, 3 10 day holidays and the fact that this was a cold start to the day I suppose I only had this about 6 times in the 3 months.
Hating the side effects I was getting from the tablets I constantly puzzled over what I had changed. Lying in bed one night I remembered what had changed and weighing up the percentage chance of dying if I didn't take the tablets for a couple of days I purchased some the next day and from that moment got better and more consistent blood readings that with all those horrid tablets and I now have this every morning. The highest blood sugar I have had for the last 2 months is 10.2 with most ranging from 5.2 -7.2
This wonder food was a third to half tin of Tesco's grapefruit in juice. I now take half a tin a day for breakfast and also drink a glass of grapefruit juice with my dinner.
From day one of restarting to eat this I had no horrid side effects and felt like my old self immediately.
I would recommend anyone to try this if not on insulin and can test their blood to confirm it is working for them.
Doing a little research afterwards it is known that in clinical tests on mice it showed it acted like Metaformin even though they admitted the mice did not have diabetes .It certainly worked on me!
Just remember the drug companies probably already know the benefits of this but can make no money out of it.
I hope this helps somebody if only as a prevention of those on the verge of being diagnosed
I controlled this successfully for 7 years but for a couple of weeks before and whilst on holiday in Spain I felt unwell but being the stubborn person I am said nothing to my wife even when she and a friend kept asking what was wrong with me. Not only did I feel unwell but was constantly parched. In the end whilst on a trip to Gibraltar her friend said we were not leaving until I told them my problem. They took me straight to a chemist who tested my blood and told my wife to get me to a hospital asap as my reading was off the scale and I was lucky not to be in a coma.
The hospital confirmed the readings as being life threatening and immediately put me on drips and injections several times a day of insulin. They only allowed me to go after three days because we had a flight booked home and on the condition that I saw my doctor immediately.
The initial blood test with my doctor came back very high still (they told me the one in Spain had been in the 90's) but they put me on tablets and over a few days I was on 2 x 1000mgs of Sukkario and 2 mgs of Glimepride with horrid side effects but my blood tests in the main were staying under the 20's.
Both my doctor and the Spanish hospital had queried what had changed so much over the last 3 months as they said it had shown a gradual increase to that level and was not normal to happen like that. At the time I could not think of anything.
When I was first diagnosed my doctor recommended I take statins as well but I didn't like the side effects and discontinued taking them. I replaced them with something else that I considered would help my cholesterol level which was not high anyway and continued to take this for about 6 years, on average 4 times a week.
After a blood test last October my cholesterol was only 3.9 and the "good" had also come to a very acceptable level. My sugar level on whatever scale they use was only 46. Coupled with the fact that at times I had difficulty finding the variation of this ingredient that I wanted , Christmas, 3 10 day holidays and the fact that this was a cold start to the day I suppose I only had this about 6 times in the 3 months.
Hating the side effects I was getting from the tablets I constantly puzzled over what I had changed. Lying in bed one night I remembered what had changed and weighing up the percentage chance of dying if I didn't take the tablets for a couple of days I purchased some the next day and from that moment got better and more consistent blood readings that with all those horrid tablets and I now have this every morning. The highest blood sugar I have had for the last 2 months is 10.2 with most ranging from 5.2 -7.2
This wonder food was a third to half tin of Tesco's grapefruit in juice. I now take half a tin a day for breakfast and also drink a glass of grapefruit juice with my dinner.
From day one of restarting to eat this I had no horrid side effects and felt like my old self immediately.
I would recommend anyone to try this if not on insulin and can test their blood to confirm it is working for them.
Doing a little research afterwards it is known that in clinical tests on mice it showed it acted like Metaformin even though they admitted the mice did not have diabetes .It certainly worked on me!
Just remember the drug companies probably already know the benefits of this but can make no money out of it.
I hope this helps somebody if only as a prevention of those on the verge of being diagnosed
