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I'm not convinced. According to my super-scales, my body water percentage increased as I switched to low carb.. Or that could just have been due to fat loss, ie absolute water content stayed roughly the same, but as a percentage of my reduced weight it showed an increase. Or maybe I should brush...

I think that's where better diagnostics could help. So currently we get the HbA1c test, which looks at glycated haemoglobin as a proxy for pancreatic function. Get a high score and win some metformin and a T2 label. Quick and easy for a GP. Kraft's study and others looked more closely at insulin...

I think it's where more research should provide answers, ie does diabetes cause weight gain, or the 'traditional' view. The way I understand it, hyperinsulemia would cause fat deposition, so weight gain would be a symptom. Managing diet and weight does seem a big part of the 'cure' though...

Ah, perfect.. Any chance you could run up a few cultures from used needles? Which may be easier said than done given popular stabbies like the FastClix conceals it's needles in the drum. But there may be room around the needle housings to run a swab... :) I think this may be an interesting...

I was using the Cyrus method to work in bacon. Plus I have no knowledge of the long pig to short pig metabolic processes. Your honour. I did hear comments from the meat industry saying 'If you want them fat, feed'em corn, lean, feed'em green'. The video mentioned animals used insulin, but...

Bacon I think I've learned to distrust 'debunking', fact-checking or anything that confuses 'facts' with opinions. Especially when there are vested interests involved. So the first mythbusted rather put me off, ie 'insulin is your fat storage hormone'. That's pretty typical of this kind of...

Include alcohol in your drug use! But you're right to taper rather than trying to go cold turkey, because that's hard and also potentially dangerous. If you find yourself struggling with that, that's the time to ask for help. But use the cost of those as a focus, ie if you save X by...

Nah, it's only 10kg :) Which is another pyschological trick I'm doing. I was used to closely monitoring weight gain/loss when I fought competitively, and watching the pounds mattered.. Even though it was an <81kg weight class. So now I'm watching kilos because I can say 'I've only lost 10kg'...

I'm on warfarin (rat poison!) and had similar results. But mebbe a different response from the anticoagulant team. So when I started low carbing, it meant I was eating more green veg. So more vitamin K and INR dropped.. Which for my clinic wasn't a problem. They understood diabetes should mean...

Seek professional help! I'd suggest.. Write down a list of all your expenses, and income. Be honest, ie all bills, rent and how much you're spending on food, drink & drugs. I'm guessing those must be around £400/week, and a major health risk to you. This will be painful, but necessary to see...

Official answer: They are single-use devices and are safely disposed of after each use. Unofficial answer: I re-use my stabbies. But I had some.. fun initially getting my grubby mits on my first batch. They're worse than razors for compatibility. The GP's recommended ones were lil single-use...

Possibly. It's (increasingly) a recognised risk/side-effect of statins. There's been a lot of controversy around statins that suggests the benefits have been greatly overstated, and the risks understated. Aseem Malhotra's got some interesting presentations on the problems with statins.

It also saves money! As the late, great Bill Hicks would say, I blame Satan's little helpers. The junk food industry spends billions on promoting unhealthy foods, and we've gone from having sweets/treats as something special to something that can get eaten several times a day. Possibly washed...

THIS! I agree, and the way I've been looking at my diet has been shaped by looking at it from a kinda engineering principle. So what happens to the food I eat, and what are the homoestatic & metabolic processes involved? Especially as with us, one (or more) of the processes are broken, or need...

Heh.. did she when she may have eaten yours? The way I'm looking at it is 'all good things in moderation', especially when the good might be bad. Hope your results turn out nicely though, and for me, the LCHF diet has certainly worked!

I think their response was a mixture of suprise and happiness, and they asked 'How did you do that?' So I explained that I'd been cutting carbs, aiming for around 20-40g/day max. Catching up on other posts, it's nice to see the medical community coming around to the same conclusion. For me...

If by 'sickness bug', you mean you've got the nasty diarrhea & vomiting monster that is norovirus.. keep an eye on your BG in case you start going hypo and ride it out. Usually lasts a couple of days and is an unpleasent way to achieve weight loss. I guess the main thing is to stay hydrated and...

.. and a smile upon my face. But been away from the internet for a few weeks, and also from doing my own cooking. So I saw the docs to get my latest results, and also noted the previous ones. Scores were:- May 2017 58 mmol/mol Nov 2017 73 mmol/mol Feb 2018 48 mmol/mol And the DN was most...

Morning all, and back up to 8.1. Think I'll join the Toyah club. Not sure if this is down to having had a bit of a cold for the last week, but hopefully it'll settle down again soon. Enjoy the weekend!

Be cautious! For me, my aim is to find a diet that's healthy and I can stick with. So far, LCHF's working. I'm losing weight at a nice, steady pace and I'm getting fewer cravings for bread/spuds/pasta/rice than I did when I started. Basically finding enough variation in my diet from tips &...