Recent Content by KennyA

Hi and welcome. While your HbA1c score is just at the 48 level where the health service will automatically diagnose diabetes, it is quite some way from normal. The normal range for blood glucose is somewhere between 35 and 42 mmol/mol. Most non-diabetic people are around 37 mmol/mol - the...

It can't be a drug because if it was it would need to have been licensed via the MHRA, which I don't think it has been. Most of these things play on the "stuff they won't tell you" angle so it conveniently explains why you can never find anything supportive of their product - because "they won't...

Hello and welcome. As others have said, it's perfectly possible to lower high blood glucose levels without medication by changing diet. Some people find that medication helps, and if it does, why not? And a word of caution about what you read on the internet - a lot of "information" on some...

Not quite the same thing but I regularly play football for an hour/90 minutes and don't feel any need to "refuel". I'm running in ketosis so not (primarily) fuelled by glucose. I know a T2 fell runner who follows the same routine and he says that the difference between glucose running and ketone...

Nothing today so far. Yesterday, beef ragu with (Italian, but not low carb) penne pasta. 4.6 before, 6.2 at +2 hrs. About OK.

Welcome to the forum. You've made a good start. I gave up on "fasting" tests fairly quickly as it wasn't really providing any useful info. Those levels are governed entirely by your liver and it can take months for your liver to adjust to the changes in what you're eating, plus the met. Having...

I believe they're totally gluten free. Although it's not one of the things I definitely check for, I don't see how things that contain no sort of flour would have gluten.

Now available at Lidl. They also do a chorizo variety but forgot to take a pic of that. No carb/sugar, plenty of fat. These are by some way the best meat "crisps" I've had. All Spanish product, full of flavour and not over salty or dried out.

Hi and welcome to the forum. I've no personal experience with this as an intended result, but I have have noticed a small and steady change that appears to be muscle gain. This is in the context of undiagnosed T2 for about ten years, in which time I put on around 60-70lbs body fat. Having gone...

I go a bit stronger and say that AI is rarely useful when it comes to advice on T2 issues - and using AI as a source on this forum isn't permitted as a result. Of course your liver is producing glucose. It's what they do, all the time, for everyone - non-diabetics and diabetics alike. But that...

Personally I don't see any difference in impact between simple or complex carbs. Carbs in equals glucose in, so I choose to limit all carbs, not just sugars. "Recent activity" as far as the HbA1c test goes means the last month. That's assumed to contribute about 60% of the overall result. Two...

One of the problems is that the officially recommended (since 1985ish) "healthy diet" is anything but for anyone with problems handling glucose. The recommended diet is strongly carb based and iirc advises around 300-350g carb per day. All carbs turn to glucose when digested and you are eating...

Update delayed thanks to not actually getting to have a beer for the last couple of weekends: yes it's as good as I thought. Sharp without acidity.

https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/dairy Diet doctor gives milk at 12g carb "per cup" which I assume is the US "cup" measure ie just over 0.4 pints.

What are you looking to do? I certainly wouldn't be telling you how much milk to drink as the decision depends on so many other factors - what else you're eating, whether you need particular (eg) vitamins, etc. Personally I don't use milk at all. Too many carbs (lactose) for me - I use double...