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I know it might not feel like it, and I know that a lot of us a dealing with myriad health problems as well as diabetes, T1 and T2 but if you stop and think about it a little - we really MAY BE the lucky ones.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15367171
take a look at this paper, and look at the chart . Listen to the news around you - every day more and more evidence comes out that practically everything is linked to insulin and glucose issues - not just obesity and diabetes and its related issues, but heart disease, liver and kidney diseases cancers , alzheimers, brittle bones, allergies- practically everything. There are hardly any issues anywhere that are not in some way linked to the same problem. That problem is the ingestion of too many carbohydrates and by corollary not enough healthy fats for our systems to be able to cope with it.
When we get diagnosed our thoughts turn to why me ? - compared to many many others. But here is the thing - all over the world people are being diagnosed with these other illnesses, all the time. Most of them have no idea that it is linked to the problems they have in ingesting carbohydrates and the resulting disfunction is already causing havoc in their systems because they don't KNOW they have a problem - so they sit back and do nothing.
We know , and when we get to this site, we understand how critical it is to get control of our blood glucose - we may not actually know that what is even more critical is to get control of our underlying insulin responses - no one told us that bit but that happens anyway when we deal with our blood sugars.
In terms of finding out what we know most of us only ever get to see an Hba1C. We do finger pricks because we know how to check what we are eating in order to stop blood glucose rise. If we did OGTT tests we would see that we are all within Krafts patterns and at risk, If we did fasting insulin tests we would know how deranged our insulin responses were .
Because we have seen the Hba1C we start to do something - because we found diabetes.co.uk and diet doctor.com - that something is generally restricting our carbohydrate intake - either as a proportion of our diet through LCHF, or as a number of grams through VLC or fasting - the result less carbs in - less insulin is the same either way.
Probably another 50% of the population should also be doing something - but they don't even know they should be looking because no-one is telling them that what applies to us is what applies to them.
Fasting insulin should be in the range 2-6 - that is where the healthy Kraft statistics sit . The "Normal range used as a global reference point is 2-25 . THAT is because such a large proportion of the population is already OUTSIDE the normal range they just don't know it. As such they are as prone to all the other ills in life as we are - but they are not doing anything about it.
As a result of the Noakes study I was involved in- its clear to me that an LCHF diet will bring fasting insulin down in the majority of people with T2 and when you stick to it - it will come down to well under the mid point of the Normal range for fasting insulin. As such we are moving ourselves into the lower risk range not just for the prognosis of our diabetes diagnosis, but also for our risk of both contracting and dealing with all the other diseases our society is pray to.
So every -time you feel a sense of victory because today you managed to keep that glucose level a bit lower, congratulate yourself that no matter what your state of health, you are doing more to deal with it, than all those other people diabetic or not, with whatever illness ,potential or actual they have who just don't know , so thank god that you are one of the lucky ones that found out first.
Goodnight all !
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15367171
take a look at this paper, and look at the chart . Listen to the news around you - every day more and more evidence comes out that practically everything is linked to insulin and glucose issues - not just obesity and diabetes and its related issues, but heart disease, liver and kidney diseases cancers , alzheimers, brittle bones, allergies- practically everything. There are hardly any issues anywhere that are not in some way linked to the same problem. That problem is the ingestion of too many carbohydrates and by corollary not enough healthy fats for our systems to be able to cope with it.
When we get diagnosed our thoughts turn to why me ? - compared to many many others. But here is the thing - all over the world people are being diagnosed with these other illnesses, all the time. Most of them have no idea that it is linked to the problems they have in ingesting carbohydrates and the resulting disfunction is already causing havoc in their systems because they don't KNOW they have a problem - so they sit back and do nothing.
We know , and when we get to this site, we understand how critical it is to get control of our blood glucose - we may not actually know that what is even more critical is to get control of our underlying insulin responses - no one told us that bit but that happens anyway when we deal with our blood sugars.
In terms of finding out what we know most of us only ever get to see an Hba1C. We do finger pricks because we know how to check what we are eating in order to stop blood glucose rise. If we did OGTT tests we would see that we are all within Krafts patterns and at risk, If we did fasting insulin tests we would know how deranged our insulin responses were .
Because we have seen the Hba1C we start to do something - because we found diabetes.co.uk and diet doctor.com - that something is generally restricting our carbohydrate intake - either as a proportion of our diet through LCHF, or as a number of grams through VLC or fasting - the result less carbs in - less insulin is the same either way.
Probably another 50% of the population should also be doing something - but they don't even know they should be looking because no-one is telling them that what applies to us is what applies to them.
Fasting insulin should be in the range 2-6 - that is where the healthy Kraft statistics sit . The "Normal range used as a global reference point is 2-25 . THAT is because such a large proportion of the population is already OUTSIDE the normal range they just don't know it. As such they are as prone to all the other ills in life as we are - but they are not doing anything about it.
As a result of the Noakes study I was involved in- its clear to me that an LCHF diet will bring fasting insulin down in the majority of people with T2 and when you stick to it - it will come down to well under the mid point of the Normal range for fasting insulin. As such we are moving ourselves into the lower risk range not just for the prognosis of our diabetes diagnosis, but also for our risk of both contracting and dealing with all the other diseases our society is pray to.
So every -time you feel a sense of victory because today you managed to keep that glucose level a bit lower, congratulate yourself that no matter what your state of health, you are doing more to deal with it, than all those other people diabetic or not, with whatever illness ,potential or actual they have who just don't know , so thank god that you are one of the lucky ones that found out first.
Goodnight all !
