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A gateway to tobacco because it is often mixed with tobacco, and smoking tobacco is highly addictive.. so actually tobacco is a gateway to tobacco, more accurately. You can get around this by not adding tobacco if it's going to be smoked, but also through vaping it, or taking it as an edible...

I seriously had a GP tell me this morning that if I go on insulin, it will make me lose weight.

Thanks Molly!

Hi, I spend some time transcribing for dementia diaries. I'm not familiar with the names of places in the UK so I'm hoping someone here will know how you correctly spell and identify the following: Aberwishworth in Wales Arlborough on the Suffolk coast Birmingham most likely in Wales Sax, Mund...

I developed very high blood pressure in my 30s. After many tests to rule out causes, it has been recorded as idiopathic - no known cause. I was at my lowest weight ever, but still overweight. It was such an insult when I'd been working so hard to get my weight under control for several years...

In the small study in question, they replaced the coffee with caffeine tablets. That's 250mg of caffeine hitting the blood all at the same time. Nobody does that with actual coffee, and the caffeine tablets don't have all the other good stuff that coffee has in it. It's hardly the same thing...

My DE, just this week, told me that she was constrained by the guidelines, and that she couldn't advise me because of my choice to follow LCHF and IF. She was actually curious and interested in the information I shared with her (we spent nearly 3 hours talking which I'm sure is well beyond the...

I find it amazing that the pre-requisite for bariatric surgery is often 4 weeks on something like optifast - one of those meal replacement shake diets. If you can do 4 weeks of optifast, you have shown that you can stick to a very, very strict and limited diet. I had lapband surgery 15 or more...

So does your body's response to carbs change? It's still early days for me (about 3 months of good BGLs) but if I eat more than 20g of carbs, I get a sustained high reading afterwards. I thought that was going to be the case forever now.

Well that really doesn't make sense, since plenty of non-fat people have type 2 diabetes. That sounds like a very unscientific thing to say which strikes me as being typical of the real thoughts and feelings of many HCPs - it's all down to being fat! Of course, there's also a lot of fat people...

No sugar - sugar would burn your coil straight up. It wouldn't be possible to vape it. Some eliquids have a sucralose sweetener in them. I used to work in a vape shop, and we had a number of diabetics who tested to see if there was any change in their BG from vaping, and not one had any...

It doesn't make sense that Abbott is trying to crack the consumables market in Australia, because they're already there. All my stuff is Abbott, and my strips are definitely subsidised. I'm on the pension and I pay AUD 1.20 for 100 strips. There's also plenty of ketone strip boxes at my local...

It feels like a such a rip off to give up smoking and THEN get diagnosed with diabetes, right? I've been fortunate not to have had any of the really awful side effects of Metformin. I think there's a lot to be said for starting on a low dose and gradually increasing it. Another thing I've...

Well.. it's over 12 weeks for me now and it's better, but not anywhere near back to previous levels. So I hope there's some variability in that time frame!

I wonder what real choice you have if you want to find the way back to good health. It's so frustrating that the HCPs are mostly constrained by following the guidelines of the day in their respective professions. If you want to see what happens when they don't, you don't need to look much...

Does anyone know what they're actually doing? Is it possible to do the HBA1C test on self monitoring equipment, or is it about using apps to record data regularly from the finger prick tests and then use that data to estimate HBA1C?

After a 3 day fast a few weeks ago, I've just naturally settled into OMAD. I vary between lunch and dinner, depending on what's on. I try to make the most of the social eating occasions I have with family, and also because not eating at a main meal time when others in the family are provokes a...

Getting a meter and being able to test your own body's response to what you eat gives you so much knowledge and power. It just seems crazy to me that it isn't the very first thing they offer to everyone with diabetes, or even pre diabetes.. prevention is way better than cure, especially with...

You're doing a great job, PDR!

Yeah.. No... not okay. At the GP surgery on Monday, I noticed a steady stream of older oompah loompah doctors. Not just pudgy, but frankly obese. So if the ability to give out advice on a topic relies on you following the advice yourself.. there's a lot of people who should be out of their...