Recent Content by torchman2

Plenty of anecdotal evidence of forums where people post their doses, and their intake per day. https://www.vitamindcouncil.org/why-does-the-vitamin-d-council-recommend-5000-iuday/#.XCUP8BP7Q_U "Together with his coauthors, Professor Heaney stated that for a normal weight adult, 5,000 IU/day...

There is plenty of evidence that Vitamin D supplementation to get up to healthy levels (around 50ng/dl) will improve insulin sensitivity and glucose control. To get to around 50, from low levels of 20 or less, you may need 5-10,000iu a day. Check through cheap blood tests.

OK, do what you want. I was replying only to the point that fructose is somehow uniquely toxic and obesity-causing. Fructose consumed with alcohol (eg vodka and orange) helps the liver clear the alcohol 80% faster, so it's improving the action of the liver in clearing toxins, not making it...

How much protein do you eat per day? Protein is very important to allow the liver to work, which will improve insulin sensitivity and glucose clearance.

How much is "excess"? Studies that show excess will use a human equivalent dose of 200grams of fructose per day! And where do you get the idea that "most of it ends up as fat around the liver"? https://chriskresser.com/ask-chris-is-fructose-really-that-bad/ "... see how fructose is...

Hello, As the title suggests, I'd be interested to see if people can check old blood test results for CK or TNF-a (alpha). Would be particularly interesting to see results before and after monitoring BG. They are both good indicators of tissue damage and inflammation. thanks

Body temperature is a fantastic indicator of health. When you wake up, you should be hitting 98 or above. Maybe 97.5. After breakfast it should rise close to the optimal of 98.6 You can get a $3 pharmacy thermometer to test it, only thing is that you need to leave it in mouth for around 3-4...

Your breakfast has zero protein, your lunch has very little (soup and sandwich), 2 eggs have about 12 grams of protein. The coffee can set off BG issues especially without balanced meals. So possibly by 5/6pm you've only had 15 grams of protein in a day. Your liver needs protein to clear...

What does a normal day of eating look like? Eg when do you eat, how many meals, how many calories?

What's your normal diet?

Great find! Thyroid would be one of the main regulators of BG in the body. If it works, great. But in fasting, the body definitely breaks itself down. Google corticostreoids and gluconeogenesis. If you keep going this way, then do pay careful attention to: quality of sleep, general mood...

Happy to write more about it. The summary is that the thyroid is the primary determinant of energy production in the body. Low carb diets and low calorie diets (can) affect the thyroid. Especially low calories ones. The lower amount of energy your body can produce, the more it is likely to...

it shows that the diagnostics are an imprecise science. There are lots of reports on this forum of (long term!) incorrect diagnoses. Your fluctuating numbers show that many, many factors affect BG. Time of year, amount of light, thyroid function, general stress (eg on holiday your BGs...

There are so many sources, just found these from a minute of googling. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6328820 "Diabetes decreased the conversion of T4 to T3 in several tissues, including the pituitary, " https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5529912/ --> this one is very good...

Wasn't saying it was just from the IF, but that it may be suggestive of a long term thyroid issue, which is very common nowadays. Spending too much time indoors in artificial light, combined with western diet of far too much polyunsaturated fat, and meals of sandwiches and fries, would have been...