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Many people are in this situation. We cannot change the past, it is important that we learn how to deal with diabetes by learning about this potentially fatal and debilitating disease as much as possible while relying as little as possible on doctors. (Of course you need the doctors for...

I came across this interesting post by HYPERLIPID. https://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/2014/12/accord-and-musings-on-insulin.html I posted the key concepts here: (THOSE IN ITALICS IS ADDED BY ME) I have posted on insulin, which is probably the ideal drug for diabetes management provided...

I just go and buy from Aliexpress Sinocare brand. Each strip including shipping cost about Singapore $0.12 to Singapore. I usually bought about 800 strips at one go. AccuCheck brand would cost $0.80 per strip locally.

Just to share: Diabetic complications: what causes them, how to prevent them, how to reverse them Dr Berstein is the Doyen in the field of diabetes treatment, he invented Blood Glucose Self Monitoring, basal and bolus injection for insulin. Almost 89 years old now. Many medical doctors and...

AloeSvea states: I get c-peptide tests done from time to time, and always fasting, along with other blood lipid and HBA1c tests. Not a problem. Perhaps I should elaborate more : C-peptide is part of the proinsulin molecule, the C shape peptide that is being cleave off to produce the insulin...

C-peptide test should be done after food with a blood glucose of about 7 mmol/l. Many years ago I had a C-peptide test done together with all the fasting blood test (lipids, glucose, etc.) I almost screwed the consultant for wasting my money on the C-peptide test. He explained that due to my...

I just like to elaborate on reactive hypoglycemia - being a precursor of Type 2 Type 2 is a polygenic disease. Many genes are involved. Some people do not have the genes and can load on carbohydrates with impunity. There is no money in understanding or finding how to try to change the...

Hi There Just sharing what I had learnt from Dr Richard Berstein (Type 1 diabetic, who become a diabetologist specialising in diabetes.) He wrote the book Complete Diabetes Solution for those diabetics who would like to treat themselves and learn all about diabetes. One of his patient father...

Hi bulkbiker I am on a carnivore diet - zero carbs not even vegetables, if that is not extremely low carb then I don't know what is low carb. Some of the protein will converts to glucose due to gluconeogenesis and also the there is the dawn phenomena and the incretin effect where bulk will...

Hi EllieM My diabetes DM2 was 'well controlled' at about 6.2% on Glucophage XR 500mg x 3 per day and with low carb - before getting my RCA closing on one morning in Dec 2018. The doctors (endocrinologist) refused to give me insulin to better manage my blood glucose. (They are worried of me...

NAFLD is when liver is already impaired and fructose will add considerable distress to it. (Reference Youtube video by Dr Robert Lustig Fat Chance: Fructose 2.0.) Type 2 DM is where the carbohydrate quota had been used up. (Reference : Dr Helen Hilts...

I was using Accuchek a decade ago but find the strips too expensive, change to another US brand years ago, then they outsourced the strips to third world country, the consistency and accuracy drop like a cliff. Changed to China made Yuwell and presently uses Sinocare brand as the strips cost...

Frozen shoulder is a result of glycation of collagen due to exposure to elevated blood glucose. Once glycated it will not resolved by itself as collagen is the longest living tissue in the body (half life of 15 years) Learnt from Dr Berstein (of Diabetes University/teleseminar on YouTube) the...

Just for discussion and sharing - diabetes mellitus (Type 1, Type 2, Gestational, etc) , the Hallmark or medical definition is high blood sugar. A non-diabetic person has a blood glucose level of 4.7mmol/l, the medical doctors are aware of this fact. Based on this fact for an average person...

I am Type2 for 14 yrs, 21/2 yrs ago after getting stented due to atherosclerosis, I asked to be put on insulin. My understanding is this: A non-diabetic while not eating a high carb diet will have normal blood glucose of 4.6 mmol/l throughout the day and night as his/her blood glucose regulator...