Recent Content by AlcalaBob

This is really unscientific stuff, quite disingenuous. It uses a few true scientific statements which are not relevant together with tendentious claims that are not evidenced. The seven reasons given all fall apart: 1. Meat elevates levels of C-reactive protein. Meat 'associates' with elevated...

Hi, I haven't been logging in much recently. I repeated the ND again to try to lose an additional 10kg but was unsuccessful despite rigidly sticking to the diet for a further six weeks. I'm still at the 96kg level but my blood is very good (most morning readings under 5, never over 7 during the...

Congratulations on starting the ND. The benefits come in right from the outset. You've seen the drop in BG in the first few days and that's down to the energy shock to the liver, the sudden drop in energy intake. As long as you stick to the limits now, the liver will have time to recover insulin...

I completely endorse this advice from @ringi. Having just completed the ND (and I'm continuing it to get to a target weight) I can confirm that the medication issue is a very difficult problem. If you take insulin, that will resist the weight reduction but reducing the insulin will also result...

Tuesday February 6th. Just as a little addendum: I've just had the much-anticipated visit to my unsupportive GP who was indeed surprised, not to say greatly thrown off balance by my request for a reduction in medication - that just doesn't happen. He noticed my weight loss but he started by...

I had a similar rise in blood glucose but after I'd cut out the medication. I was too optimistic, thinking that the good reduction of BG was enough to justify the cut. In my case it wasn't and I had to go back to the insulin to control it. I suspect that until the pancreas recovers...

Just got it on kindle :)

I can offer my take on this but I think there's still a lot of science to be done on it all. I think it's important to recognise that Taylor's work is about metabolic recovery, and not just weight loss and there's a lot more research to come on the specific relationship between the weight loss...

Here's my opinion on things I can take away from doing the ND over the last eight weeks. 1 It works, it does what it says on the can, if you stick to it, don't cheat, and stay sensible. It's based on the principle of shocking the liver into burning its stored fat so that it recovers insulin...

Week 8 Day 56 Sunday 4th February. FBG 6.0 Weight 97.0kg And that's the end of week eight, ND completed, well, at least the first phase. I'm looking forward to introducing some real food over the next week but without relaxing control over the blood and weight loss. That's the next challenge...

Week 8 Day 55 Saturday 3rd February. FBG 5.9 Weight 97.0kg Feeling quite contented with those numbers at the end of week eight. Before the diet, for many months my weight would barely budge from 107kg and any drop at all quickly sprang back, as if it was a thermostat setting. On starting the ND...

I hope it's all going well for you with the LCHF. Since I've felt pretty rotten many times through the diabetes over many years, I decided to stick it out on the grounds that it's more of a medical intervention than just a diet and that getting that weight reduction was worth it. I think that...

Week 8 Day 54 Friday 2nd February. FBG 5.8 Weight 97.6kg Figures are very slightly up but the trend is still good. There's a sense of just sitting it out now for the last few days but the reality is that this continues for the next couple of months. It's probably quite negative psychologically...

Week 8 Day 53 Thursday 1st February. FBG 5.3 Weight 97.4kg Another routine set of figures and the weight is still dropping little by little. Another few days and I could well be seeing a 96 which would round off the eight weeks nicely. I've been reflecting a lot about how much I've learned...

I really think you are absolutely right to be skeptical, especially about scientific claims. It's the only healthy attitude to these things. And I think you're right, that the ND trial success was around 46% of his sample of patients. It's hard to generalise across a population without...