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Most of your body can switch from using glucose as its energy source to using ketones instead. Your liver can convert proteins into glucose more that fast enough to supply the part on your body that cannot convert to using ketones. Your liver also converts fats into ketones when they are...

Are the sides of that toenail curved downward? If they are curved downward enough to start curving underneath, you may need to see a podiatrist (foot doctor) about an ingrown toenail. I've had the sides of my painful toenail removed lately. There was much less pain than before after this was...

If you can't get a CGM, a few blood glucose measurements in the middle of the night may help your doctor decide if one would be useful for you. Read about dawn phenomenon to see why: The Dawn Phenomenon https://idmprogram.com/dawn-phenomenon-t2d-8/

I'll consider eating foods made from insects AFTER more complete nutritional analyses are available , but not until then.

You might ask him if he will consider sandwiches that use lettuce instead of bread.

Eating more of the green vegetables that are basically green leaves tends to help with constipation. I like to use turnip greens for this purpose.

Transfats are fats that are NOT identical to a mirror image of themselves, and are usually produced by partial hydrogenation of unsaturated fats. Human metabolism is able to store them in fat cells, but unable to remove them and use them for energy afterwards

Have you tried telling Harvard that he's tarnishing their reputation?

One of my neighbors uses a medicine called Creon that substitutes for some of the digestive enzymes normally produce by the pancreas. https://www.creon.com/ He hasn't said what caused his problem.

Dawn phenomenon is often due to the blood glucose going too low before the rise starts. Have you checked for low values earlier in the night?

Could they correlate with running low on glucose in the middle of the night, known as dawn phenomenon? You may need to take extra blood glucose measurements in the middle of the night to check. https://www.diabetesselfmanagement.com/diabetes-resources/definitions/dawn-phenomenon/

After a total thyroidectomy, you have no thyroid left to respond to the TSH hormone, so measuring TSH is no longer very useful.

In the US, diabetic meals tend to be based on obsolete ideas on what diets help those with diabetes. For example, they tend to be no sugar, plenty of starches, and low fat. Those labelled low-carb or low-carbohydrate are better, but airlines tend to find that these are too expensive to prepare...

Diagnosed 17 years ago, when I was in the emergency room after a stroke.

Another diabetes forum, with more for LADA than most: TuDiabetes https://tudiabetes.org/ To convert the US blood glucose meter reading to the UK equivalent, divide by 18.

How small is their scoop?

Not much warning that I now recognize, except that a few weeks before I was diagnosed, most of the inside of my toilet bowl became covered with a black coating, probably mold.

My latest blood glucose meter occasionally starts the setup procedure unexpectedly. If I don't go far enough in this setup procedure, the meter starts giving unexpected numbers for reading, usually about four times the readings I expected.

I've read of ONE person proven to have been cured of type 1. However, it does not leave you in better condition than most people with type 1. A man had both type 1 and a bone marrow condition expected to be fatal in a few years. His doctors decided to cure the bone marrow condition by first...

The way I handle burgers is to discard the buns, since they contain most of the carbs, then eat the rest.