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But - double cream is lovely, right? :angelic:

Sure - and I don't mean that to be in any way contentious - we all do more than eat. If (and I'm still assuming ..) you are doing a lot of exercise, and your metabolism is based around glucose (like almost everyone is) then you will be regularly depleting the stores of glycogen (stored glucose)...

While I'm a big fan of both Ben Bikman and Ken Berry - I don't think I would ever point anyone at either of them as a first introduction to metabolism - they are both pretty hard core, and Ben; in particular - calling his channel the metabolic classroom is no joke - you need to sit down and take...

Glucose affects things it comes in to contact with. The more glucose, the more often it will contact things If you can measure the affected thing, you can estimate the amount of the glucose around for the lifetime of the thing. Gylcated Heamoglobin A1 is one thing - over a 3 month life...

Cold pressing of rapeseed... (Canola in the States) So, this is where it gets even more confusing. Yes, it's less reliant on heat and solvents. But take a look at the presses and tell me they aren't industrial. However, squeezing a thing, how dangerous can that be? Well, part of the answer lies...

It's worth noting that the world demand and consumption of extra virgin olive oil significantly overshadows the world capacity for production, so something doesn't add up, but that's mainly about advertising standards in the US (it's pretty shocking what you can get away with) - in the UK...

Nothing wrong with a bit of lurking - everyone welcome and whatever kind of engagement works for you...

Always good to wake up.... Sorry - I realise it sounds pedantic - it's simply that on my lipid panel; this ratio is explicitly stated - "Serum Cholesterol / HDL ratio: 4.2" In your post, you had not listed it, though clearly, it's not a difficult piece of mathematical gymnastics to figure out...

Oh - and I should mention- my morning blood glucose count was higher than I've seen it for months - which is all 100% just stressing about these readings -

Thanks for all the well wishes.. So, the results are in. Critically - HbA1c remains in normal levels, at 37 mmol/mol. Up a smidge from 35 in Nov, but over the winter, I'll take that happily. I'd call that steady. Looking at metabolic syndrome markers, my waist size is about the same as when I...

Nope.. there is simply no such thing as unrefined seed oil. You can cold press an olive or avocado, but you have to put a sunflower or soya bean through an unbelievable range of industrial processes, solvents and treatments before a human can safely eat it as an oil. It's absolutely never been...

Good call - but no, trans fats are refined fats from veg and seeds which have been even more processed to become solid. The stuff we have been sold for a generation (I have eaten most of my life) - vegetable oil, cooking oil, seed oil - is all a consequense of needing to sell the leftover...

If what you're doing is working for you, fabulous, keep doing it. If you need to count the grams of what you eat - also great - I take an absurd amount of data every day, no way I'm knocking anyone for any regime. All I'd say is that the reasoning behind lowering carbs is that you can bring...

I'm a fan of using real cheese slices - I had an Emmental slice at lunchtime with some course pate; load up one side of the cheese slice and fold over, and you have a kind of sandwich, that really is keto friendly.

A keto diet is anything which encourages your body to produce ketones. That can only happen if insulin is low, and the body is sufficiently nourished, so in my opinion there is nothing better than a keto diet for T2 - but it's not the only way to go, and not for everyone. Fats and Carbs are...

I've never heard of that one, but I agree with the T/HDL - which you want less than 2 and better approaching 1:1 - making yours 0.6 -which is excellent. That is a measure of the particle size distribution of LDL particles, meaning yours are light and fluffy. Another good measurement is the one...

Just a placeholder - to hold my own feet to the flames, as it were.... Had a full set of bloods taken this morning in advance of my first annual review (or at least first annual review as a T2, and certainly first since remission). Even with all the bullish talk of flat CGM traces and general...

Sorry it's taken me so long to notice this @IanBish - a very hearty congratulations...

So, I was only reading about this last week. Surprisingly, whey protein powder can spike insulin as much as neat glucose. There is quite a pressure to add protein to the diet, but there isn't a great deal of evidence that it's very helpful beyond what you need, and if it isn't protein that comes...

Can you say what symptoms you are experiencing? Anything ending in "itis" means inflammation, and the body will react to that by raising blood glucose (to fight that inflammation) - so there may be a connection there. We all feel out of our depth... all of this just gets deeper the further you...