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Nice, so you mean you can now eat any carbs, or only resistant starch?

That was 5/6 years ago. I'm 15kg heavier today. Edit: after getting bad on LC, I then went a more standard diet, after trying the GAPS diet, and was clearly insulin resistant and glucose intolerant from the LC / short Keto, hence packed on fat, especially belly fat, went up to around 23% body...

Eat manageable amounts of carbs. That may only be 10-20-30g of carbs per meal, 4-5 times a day, to start, on the lower end if you have been doing keto... Because someone can't handle 50/100g of carbs in a meal, doesn't mean that carbs needs to be cut out. Carbs will be easier to process if they...

My argument is not that dietary glucose reverses hyperglycaemia. So maybe I explained myself badly. This is my argument: - diabetes is the inability to clear/process glucose. - if you "have diabetes", it's not forever, and you can still improve glucose clearance. - many factors affect glucose...

Thanks for the comments. I only put the sciencey bits and links to studies to show I'm not just making it up. "magnesium helps T2 diabetes" really needs links to studies to show this. Background--> I did low carb from around 2011-2013. Then Keto, then had hypothyroidism diagnosed around end of...

When you eat high carb meals nowadays, do you not get high post-prandial and/or fasting BG?

Hey mate, you are the one who triggered this by asking a question of me, to which I responded in extreme detail with 20 odd studies showing many substances can improve insulin sensitivity/reduce the rate of diabetes. I thought you did it out of interest, but clearly you weren't interested, and...

Lipotoxicity refers to accumulation in tissues, not just higher blood lipids. Blood lipids increase AFAIK when glucose is not present, since the lipids move into the blood to be metabolised. This is FAO (fatty acid oxidation)

That's great! If you are energetic, happy, healthy etc... all the power to you. I'm not telling anyone what to do, I'm explaining metabolic pathways, which may help some other people shed light on issue they are having. Personally on LCHF, I felt great for a few years, then quickly got hair...

Luckily, scientists have done that: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26008-grizzly-bears-become-diabetic-when-they-hibernate/ "As the bears put on weight in preparation for the winter, they responded normally to insulin – which prevents the breakdown of fatty tissue. But during...

Not in the same way as bears, but we had a form of hibernation, where we would have lower metabolism, lower activity, lower energy expenditure to match the poorer food supply and shorter days, and longer periods asleep. Generally, human sleep cycles matched day lengths. So yes, there is a...

So you do have glucose to metabolise, whether you like it or not :)

Exactly, it's the hibernation metabolism. Bears are diabetic when they come out of winter due to oxidising fat. Also, if he knew about gluconeogenesis, why is saying there is no glucose to metabolise? There's clearly still glucose in his blood!

I was LCHF for about 2 years, then Keto for about 9 months. Initially felt good, had a sixpack, but then had horrible stress reactions from the catacholamines, leading to prolonged health issues. I know all about LCHF and Keto's supposed benefits.

You really need to read about gluconeogenesis. What are your BG Readings? Your body endogenously creates glucose if you don't consume it (through your own muscle protein breakdown, or through converting the protein/fat you eat), hence why you will still have BG readings of 5 and above. This...

No, that's called a strawman argument, where you make up what I said. I eat plenty of animal fats, and limit Polyunsaturated, since PUFA is most damaging on metabolism. Animal fats are great. But high carbs are problematic in high fat situation, (RANDLE CYCLE, if i need to keep repeating...

Definitely, lower BG is better than high. Not debating that. It's not a solution though. It's like saying "I used to be intolerant of exercise, but now I'm not, because I no longer exercise" If you could take some simple supplements, and avoid mixed high fat/high carb diets, and oxidise...

It's described a lot above. Insulin sensitivity is the reverse way of describing the relation. All of those factors I listed above improve insulin sensitivity/glucose clearing. In no way do I suggest to ignore it. The multiple factors are not to ignore it, but to tackle it head-on. Also...

An inability to oxidise glucose. All of the things listed above improve it through improved insulin sensitivity and improved aerobic glycolysis (maybe i should call this "oxidative phosphorylation" to be specific) Removing glucose does not solve this issue, but merely exacerbates it, since it...

The beauty of the body is that it is adaptive, and responds to bad periods and good periods. If you see diabetes as an inability to oxidise glucose properly, then there is no reason why someone could not move in and out of a diabetic state, rather than "have diabetes" for life. If you can now...