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An inability to oxidise glucose through aerobic glycolysis, being stuck in anaerobic glycolysis, which produces lactic acid, which then is converted back to glucose by the liver through gluconeogeneis, which in turn exacerbates the stress response due to cortisol spike. If people are eating...

So you don't think that the body can ever change? Once you show diabetic signs, you are diabetic for ever? In this case the guy even says he's not restricting foods and still has good HbA1c numbers, so how is he diabetic?

Thanks, it's nice to have an actual discussion about this :) Some comments on your post: Insulin is not the only thing that clears blood glucose. It should be converted to CO2 and water, producing ATP, or it is fermented to produce lactate and lower amounts of ATP: The worst outcome of...

Your 2 replies have not exactly been useful to the discussion. Or do you just want the status-quo to continue and no new ideas be added? I'm happy to enter into a discussion/debate (I thought that's the point of forums), but you seem to just want to be silly. Just a cursory search of google...

OK, i'm still reading about this, so my opinion below is definitely not fully-formed, and will probably be contentious :) But I would say that Diabetes is diagnosed by too much glucose in the body. That's a symptom of the issue, not a cause. The solution is to train the body to metabolise...

Fair questions :) I'm not a scientist per se, but have studied it personally for a number of years. I'm still a rank amateur, and don't pretend to be otherwise. My interest in the forum came from a recent bout of illness (about 5 weeks ago), followed by some bad/sporadic eating, and then I...

Have you tried magnesium? You can make a great magnesium bicarbonate supplement with sparkling water mixed with milk of magnesia. It's extremely well-absorbed by the body. You just get a 1 litre bottle of sparkling water, pour a little bit out, then pour in 3 cap fulls of milk of magnesia...

Cholesterol breaks down into pregnenoline, DHEA, and progesterone via thyroid hormone. I would suggest looking at thyroid function to the cause of raised cholesterol. You could test your DHEA and pregnenolone blood levels. Further, you probably want to examine whether reduced cholesterol...

No, if the body senses it has insufficient glucose, then it results in cortisol being released to break down muscle tissue and fat to release glucose (gluconeogenesis). Excess, prolonged high cortisol has impact on brain, heart, skin, sleep, etc. The brain primarily runs on glucose as...

Why would you want to remove stored glycogen? If there is insufficient glycogen, and no food source of glucose, then muscle tissue and fat will be broken down through catabolic hormones such as cortisol to maintain sufficient glucose supply to the brain. This catabolism is mal-adaptive, ie meant...

This isn't 100% true, since the liver may be converting lactate into glucose (the Cori cycle) endogenously, due to inefficient anaerobic glycolysis producing too much lactate via pyruvate reduction, instead of oxidative glycolysis to turn pyruvate into CO2 and water. Also, really it's that the...

If you just eat fat and protein, you are unlikely to get much of a BG response, except from the sugar being broken down from the protein/fat through gluconeogenesis. I'm a bit new to all this. How do you know you're not diabetic/insulin resistant any more, if you are always eating a...

Hi Meme I tried Keto and LFHC for many years too. Now i'm just doing small, regular meals, mixed with protein, some fat, and carbs. I'm around 40%, 20%, 40% in that order. I eat regularly, 3 meals a day plus balanced snacks, or I suppose you could just call it 5 small meals a day. Calories...

Sure. I'll post some more tomorrow as it comes to me

My morning BG depends heavily on what I ate the day before, and the consistency of what I ate before. I find 4-5 balanced meals, with protein, roasted/boiled root vegetables, and some fruit with every meal, and my BG stays stable throughout the day, and the fasting BG moves way down out of...