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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Diet only
That's exactly true, probably you should listen to Norwood surgery doctors interview on PHC website who is saving close to £60k for NHS in his clinic by going low-carb for his diabetic patients, just Google it and you will know.I’d be more interested to know their insulin levels but since there’s no commercially available testing equipment this is not possible. Most people will have fairly normal glucose right up until they don’t. Normal glucose doesn’t mean you’re not a slow motion metabolic car crash. If health providers routinely checked insulin it would expose a massive problem of diabetic pathology in situ. Wouldn’t mind betting 50% of the population.
TLDR; no.
Because insulin labs are not easy what i do if i suspect some BG abnormalities in any of my volunteers, that i check their fasting and then 2 hr PP. Let's say if their postprandial was like 8, i will further test it at 4 hr pp. If by then it went close to 5 then probably their insulin is still working fine as opposed to going back 1 mmol down every couple of hours.