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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2 (in remission!)
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- Diet only
I find this stuff really frightening. For some mental rational we are trying literally to have our cake and eat it, by any means possible."It can be injected to keep blood sugar levels within a healthy range, and could treat diabetes in insulin-resistant patients."
Well yeah but.. we know for many how this can be best done.. by avoiding the input of carbs in the first place.
I’d like to understand what is supposed to happen to the unused glucose. Where does it go? If it is not removed from the body then it is still contributing to the overall problem. Unless the substance is excreted? I haven’t read all the finer details.
Agree that low carb is the way to go for some people, but there are many reasons for eating carbs. Religious, not eating meat, not able to eat meat etc. Personally, I dislike taking drugs unless essential, so will be sticking to low carb.
I am well aware that you are vegan, but as a T1 you can use insulin to cover any carbs you eat. I know that you and a few T1s on this forum are vegan and that is your choice.I am vegan. I find no need to munch loads of carbs. I am on about 80g per day and that's giving myself slack for treats. I could drop it down to about 40g without too much effort and there are keto vegan sites online, and loads of keto and low carb vegan recipe books.
No veggie or vegan actually needs to eat lots of carbs.
I distrust the idea of injecting gel into the human body. (Not a real comparison but look how successful injecting silicon into people's breasts & bottoms has been, in an attempt to create some sort of "ideal shape" - ended up with people crippled with silicon poisoning!)
I am well aware that you are vegan, but as a T1 you can use insulin to cover any carbs you eat. I know that you and a few T1s on this forum are vegan and that is your choice.
However your 80g carbs is four times my max daily intake. If I go over my usual 20g carbs in a day it will quickly show up in my BGs. I also will not be injecting a gel in order to reduce BGs, just as I would never use cosmetic injections.
I don't think this gel should be mainstream, but I can see a use for this where all else has failed.
These gel pods gather and bind the glucose, but then release it back into the system slowly, or that is what I understand. So in the end, the same amount of glucose still ends up in the body doing whatever damage it might. It seems like a quick fix for some good finger pricking results, but not a fix for glucose damage.
Yes. Assuming that the nanogel itself is safe and inert for long term usage...I think the trick would be to set the equilibrium level such that the excess can be released back into the blood so that it can be processed at the rate the body is able to do. That would be a smart bit of science.
Yes. Assuming that the nanogel itself is safe and inert for long term usage...
I think the trick would be to set the equilibrium level such that the excess can be released back into the blood so that it can be processed at the rate the body is able to do. That would be a smart bit of science.