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Since partly retiring, I've had more time to focus on my health, which led me to explore different approaches to managing my T2D into medication-free remission. My daily routine now includes morning walks through Tokyo's neighborhoods and incorporating more local Japanese dishes into my diet...

Again, could be but not my experience. I wear a CGM and walk 7000 steps (about 5 km) in 1 hour and immediately see BG start and continue dropping as I walk. Different strokes for different folks.

"Blood sugars always rise with exercise," That's not my experience and I expect it is determined from where in terms of available blood glucose you start the exercise.

Could I make a humble appeal to people posting here about including the units after the figures? I realize this is a UK forum but it is not geofenced, so many people around the world are reading it (including me) and it's very difficult to understand some of the figures being published without...

Hepatic release/conversion of glycogen into glucose? 4.7 (assuming this is HbA1c) is quite a low figure already but HbA1c is not a measure of available blood glucose - it is an index expressing the last 3 months of glycated haemoglobin. You'd see more about what is going on by wearing a CGM...

Hello Ladynijo, I haven't found nutrition-clinic advice to be much good for my T2D b/c they just repeat the same old tropes about high-fiber/low-GI meals which don't work for me at all as demonstrated by CGM measurements after many high-fibre meals. What really works for me is: 1. Keeping away...

Thanks Melgar.

Wow, thanks for the tableI Antj77 and explanation KennyA. I didn't know about this international mix of units systems used for HbA1c and instantaneous BG. While this is a UK forum, how many international readers are there (like me) who must be confused to read of HbA1c levels of 110 when they...

Sorry to ask, but where do you get mmol/L units from? Do you mean mmol/mol which is the new recommended European standard (see attached) versus the derived NGSP (%) standard? Extract: HbA1c determination to the IFCC1 reference measurement procedure, using the new unit mmol/mol. Since these new...

Sorry to ask, but where do you get mmol/L units from? Do you mean mmol/mol which is the new recommended European standard (see attached) versus the derived NGSP (%) standard? Extract: HbA1c determination to the IFCC1 reference measurement procedure, using the new unit mmol/mol. Since these new...

As another example, a diabetic friend in the UK was told at his diabetic clinic that beans on toast was OK because beans are high fibre. Well, in my CGM trials, brand name beans on toast is second only to Granola for a steep and high (257 mg/dl in 30 minutes from base level of 127 mg/dl) BG...

We're obviously using different units of measurement in different parts of the diabetic world b/c these HbA1c figures make no sense to me at all. Here in Japan and the USA I think, we use the NGSP scale for HbA1c where the normal non-diabetic range is 4.9% to 6% and the maximum is about 13%. At...

Hello Pip, Diabetes care in Japan is reasonably good and I get a monthly clinic visit on the Japanese NHS (pays 80% of costs) where they take a blood sample to test my HbA1c and meet with the doctor who usually gives me a rundown on my monthly bloodwork. Of course, being doctors, they are very...

Hi — I'm a new member from Tokyo, although not Japanese (UK by birth). I've lived here 40 years, 30 of which have been as a T2D but after 20 years on various medications, including metformin, GLP-1s and semaglutide, I made a lifestyle change and am now completely medication-free with a HbA1c of...