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As this guy claims he has seen? And claims he has experienced a better glucose tolerance since changing from Paleo, then low carb, then keto and now whole foods plant based diet?
I'm having dilemmas eating keto, which I started about 6 months ago while still pregnant and diagnosed with gestational diabetes.
While breastfeeding it seems more of the advice is to keep a few carbs in your diet and frankly I find it hard to stay hydrated on keto even though I prefer how my stomach feels without all the bloat from fibre.
My follow-up GTT revealed a better fasting (4.4 down from 5.1) but an increased 1h (12.1 up from 9.7 mmol) and now whenever I eat the smallest amount of carbs, the spike seems unreasonably high for what I've eaten.
I doubt I will be able to quit all meat to try an only plant based diet but I'm just wondering if anyone has before and after blood test results that show you can improve glucose tolerance eating this way and actually be able to eat higher amounts of carbs (from fruit, vegetables, legumes and possibly grains) and not just improve your blood sugar averages while avoiding carbs on a keto diet.
Or is this guy overreacting about his keto-induced physiological insulin resistance and glucose intolerance because as a T1 diabetic, he may have been insulin sensitive and just found it a shock to have a sudden insulin resistance and considered it metabolic damage when really it seemed to only take him 48 hours for it to reverse when he moved to a plant based diet.
He just claims he can now eat an even higher amount of carbs now.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.bo...t/news-story/f33660a184cee7b32bc609de8261aa27
I'm having dilemmas eating keto, which I started about 6 months ago while still pregnant and diagnosed with gestational diabetes.
While breastfeeding it seems more of the advice is to keep a few carbs in your diet and frankly I find it hard to stay hydrated on keto even though I prefer how my stomach feels without all the bloat from fibre.
My follow-up GTT revealed a better fasting (4.4 down from 5.1) but an increased 1h (12.1 up from 9.7 mmol) and now whenever I eat the smallest amount of carbs, the spike seems unreasonably high for what I've eaten.
I doubt I will be able to quit all meat to try an only plant based diet but I'm just wondering if anyone has before and after blood test results that show you can improve glucose tolerance eating this way and actually be able to eat higher amounts of carbs (from fruit, vegetables, legumes and possibly grains) and not just improve your blood sugar averages while avoiding carbs on a keto diet.
Or is this guy overreacting about his keto-induced physiological insulin resistance and glucose intolerance because as a T1 diabetic, he may have been insulin sensitive and just found it a shock to have a sudden insulin resistance and considered it metabolic damage when really it seemed to only take him 48 hours for it to reverse when he moved to a plant based diet.
He just claims he can now eat an even higher amount of carbs now.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.bo...t/news-story/f33660a184cee7b32bc609de8261aa27
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