Recent Content by Foggitthedoggit

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I use the sauna and steam room 4 times a week after an hours workout in the gym. No adverse effects although I now limit my time to 90 minutes for both sessions. Take a book or a newspaper (or a friend) as its a boring on your tod.

For the faint hearted best as soup. Otherwise steam with some chopped fatty smoked bacon or the the lumps of pork fat you get it Polish delis.

Well said Sid! I too control my diabetes with a reduced portion approach, avoid cereals and rarely eat pasta. Once you know what foods are most likely to have an adverse effect on BG/HbA1c if consumed in sufficiently large quantities over a longer term then managing the dysfunctional pancreas...

Have a comfort blanket if you must - but don't expect other to pay for it. Yes I take Metformin - Consultant prescribed it and so far has not said that I should desist from the prescribed daily dose. Happens to be she who considers that taking this minimum dose will help y dysfunctional...

Hear, hear Romola. For T2 diabetics, common sense should tell most with a modicum of working grey matter what foods and other consumables must necessarily be avoided. Forums like this point people in the direction of how diet might be further adjusted. Some testing in the early days will...

Go for a sauna a couple of times a week and it disappears.

Alternatively...... Like you I only ever tested twice a day. My start level was an HbA1c of 14+ which rapidly reduced to 7 then to the low 6s. The last, a few weeks ago was 5.6. For me testing first thing after rising seemed to show a possible dawn phenomenon which was addressed by a late...

"and they only studied people over 50 for some reason" Perhaps those over 50 were more likely to die within a reasonable timescale thus providing researchers with the cause or causes of death and thus analyse the likelihood of any relationship between recorded treatments, HbA1c etc . If some...

Rolling Stones and Mars Bars comes to mind. Before or during but not after

Perhaps some might wish to consider the methodology behind a longitudinal study. With regard to the comment made in an earlier post:: “Why should a low HbA1c in itself be dangerous?”  I don't think that the study is saying that at all. To me all that it is saying is that x patients were...

You need to dig a bit deeper into the University of Texas material. "Even if the foundation for a solution is here, research is not yet closer to a plausible way to administer resveratrol to humans because injection into the brain is not an option." In the tests the compound extract was...

I would not overly worry. Get the BG down and it might well come back. In any event they are very, very generous with the blue pills!

Google a bit further and you might well find that its only the sodium we need and in much smaller amounts than most of us would believe. In this household we have not added salt to food at the table or in cooking since 1978. If you need a flavour enhancer there are plenty of other ways of...

IanS That's the per day dose!