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What they should be saying is 'eat locally produced food where possible'. Often grazing animals are on land that is not fit for arable farming, true they should reduce the amount of intensive farming and put animals outside to graze. But what is really generating global warming - too many...

Thanks for the article. Yes, I've been LC for many years, and now am borderline keto, but the funny thing is that I've had 4 OGTT over the years and passed all of them with flying colours, no carb refeeding either, and I mean literally not going above 6.5mmol/l the whole time ! yet give me a...

Hi, yes, I've read that excessive protein will get converted through a different pathway and will effectively become glucose. But, no, not a huge protein eater. Its always difficult to judge, you read one thing somewhere and something different elsewhere. According to most estimates I really...

OK, get it, will do. Thanks to everyone for their help too.

Thanks, I had wondered about that. I've been coping quite well for the last xxxx yrs, but things are obviously getting worse. I must confess that I have taken the precaution of ordering a ketone metre, just so I can keep track on that especially if my BGs go up more or stay up. The trouble is...

Thanks for that, a useful chart. Its funny really, because its says that they use IFCC in europe, mine was done about 6 weeks ago in france and it was %.

500 what? I really wish all labs would use the same standard measurements, it would make everyone life easier - perhaps I should put that in a 'gumpy old gits' post !

Could it be anything to do cutting the carbs down just that little bit more? I can't see how, but you never know. I do get slightly nauseous in the evenings, so is it possible that I'm kinda on the cusp of keto but not there yet, and there is just enough carbs in what I have eaten earlier in the...

I must admit I have wondered about Mody, as there are several family members with diabetes, although on reading about the various gene defect senarios none of them actually seem to fit that well. Maybe its just getting old ! my brother was put on insulin at about my age, he is now classed as an...

Sorry, A1c is as is normally expressed in UK, just got in the habit of mmol ! I had both GAD and c peptide done a fair few years ago, GAD negative, c peptide very low. Checked numbers, actually don't have much in the way of contaminants in the house these days, but always a possibility. Nothing...

Hi About 7 yrs ago my BGs started getting a bit high after meals, so started testing, at that time I was not considered diabetic, or only just pre-diabetic. We have diabetes in the family though. My a1c were just entering the 6.00 mmol range, so at that point I started to reduce carbs and test...

It usually doesn't just stop, it just diminishes, meaning that the first phase (the insulin that is already waiting and ready to go in the pancreas) release is smaller and therefore not that great in bringing down your BG level, which leaves a much higher BG level for the slower second phase to...

No, you are not annoying, this disease is blooming frustrating. Perhaps I should have said that I am also quite small and basically only ate one LC meal a day, and worked about 8-9 hrs a day running a plant nursery doing loads of physical work, so was pretty much out of glycogen by late morning...

OK then explain why I can drink 75gm of pure glucose and not go above 6.4, tested every 15 mins, but any other source of carbs, even 20 gm would put me over 10/14 mmol and keep me there for 2-4 hours! Perhaps my body only recognises glucose as warranting insulin release. Even hospital tests come...

I think sometimes doctors dismiss your questions because they don't actually know the answer and wont admit it, result, standard reply 'its normal' or worse 'its all in your head' ! All very helpful. If you are hypothyroid you will invariably have some insulin resistance, because the body will...