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Outlier - you can recommend a company that you use. I often recommend SRSLY for some of their bread substitutes, for example. What you can't do on the forum is recommend or promote a company in which you or a friend or relative has any actual or potential financial interest. On berberine - no...

Agree. It really doesn't matter what terminology anyone uses - what counts is the food's impact on blood glucose, and how well one's insulin response system can cope with that impact. And the only way to know that is to test blood glucose - eg before eating, and then at +2 hrs, or use a CGM...

Hi. Most definitions of "remission" - there are many more than one - usually state things like no medication, a time period, and a HbA1c score. My practice used (may still use) a definition of one calendar year with no HbA1c readings above 41 and no glucose-lowering medication in that time...

As others have said, the essence of the T2 problem is that we cannot deal properly with carbohydrate (including sugars). That means that if nothing else changes and we continue to eat a high-carb diet, we are likely to end up with abnormally high levels of glucose in our system - not just in...

There's been a lot of coffee today, as well as turkey, ham, stuffing, parsnips, carrots, a couple of roasties, sausages, bacon, sprouts (fried with garlic butter and pancetta), celeriac poached in cream with a pecorino cheese sauce.... with some brunello and now some valpolicello ripasso. In the...

My first Christmas post-diagnosis, having been keto for a while, I consulted on here with the same question, and on the basis of advice I had some Christmas pudding (which I really like). I think my BG went into orbit, I felt so ill. Not for me. These days I will have a roast potato and...

Always a bit disappointing when you don't get what you think you earned. What were the actual figures? Going forward, when you say "no sweet or any high sugar" - is it possible that you're not as low carb as you think you are? It might be an idea to think about what you eat over a few days and...

You know, it's not that long ago that Type two diabetes didn't exist. I have diabetes textbooks published in 1999 which talk only about "insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus" and " non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus". The assumption was that these were two stages of the same disease and that...

This is a graph from a Constant Glucose Monitor worn by a non-diabetic person, and it shows very clearly how it's normal for blood glucose levels vary across the day - you can easily spot where the person probably ate something.

Hi and welcome. I think checking blood glucose levels is essential if you want to control your condition, but it pays to do it in a structured way. Testing at set times doesn't tell you all that much - BG varies a lot throughout the day, bioth in response to food and because your liver is...

You're replying to a post made in 2016, and may not get a response.

Some of them are fairly obvious - stress/cortisol stimulates additional glucose production by your liver, so it makes sense to be less stressed and anything that does that will help. I've never seen any effect from the food order thing at all. In the main my take on it is that this is an...

Agree with all the above. Personally, I don't see much point in them giving you half a story - if they can't tell you what your HbA1c was then you don't know where you stand. In addition there's an acceptable error in HbA1c tests, and some can be flat out wrong. I've had one that was miles out -...

Hi John and welcome. You say you're diet only, so you're not on insulin, is that correct? So where does the needle come from - I'm T2 and have never used an injectable or indeed any diabetes medication. My first month was spent reducing carbs.

Hi and welcome. I've had afaik three proper hypos in the last five years, the first having fairly bad consequences as I didn't recognise what was happening and was away from home on my own. I suspect I had others prior to diagnosis.... These days I run with quite low blood glucose almost all...