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Thank you and i am happy it was useful. TBH, i was not even aware of insulin 3 months back and now i can give a full hour lecture on insulin resistance and diabetes. When you get it, it changes everything! There is so much in dark regarding complications that anything i think is useful i try to...

A very good correlation study of OGTT and associated risk factors for developing diabetes, cvd and all causes mortality. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00125-017-4468-z/figures/1

Good idea. I am also interested to see overnight and post meal readings. Its hard for me to catch my peaks even after burning so many strips a day, so unpredictable!

Hi @Chase C , Im not sure if you are referring to me for some sort of rating i gave. If it is so, then please understand it must be a mistake on my part because im new to these symbols, or just a wrong click while doing it on useful. My apologies if it offended you, but not that i meant to...

You can find Fine Test Lite strips from most of the NHS pharmacies for £10 for 50 strips. You can order them online as well for the same cost but some times you need to pay extra postage. I always get it from pharmacy without prescription (because i pay for it). Also my experience with the meter...

I would advise, just stick to low-carb diet and prioritise proteins and eat the fat that comes with it. Definitely regular aerobic/resistance exercise will help in long-run as well. You are lucky to have it diagnosed on a fairly early stage, many of us got caught it after a1c of 80 and 90 which...

If you read these books (in the order of priority), that is what you all need to fight D2 and stay in remission. Diabetes is not a progressive disease if you are able to control your BGs. Diabetes Soloution - Dr. Richard K Bernstein Why We Get Sick - Dr. Ben Bikman Protein Power - Dr. Michael...

Hi all, this study is actually very very interesting showing BG ratio to risk of stroke for both diabetic and non-diabetic population. The results were drawn over a period of 5 years, which is not that long but still can give a good idea of what to target for us diabetics. Also, its very recent...

Thanks for you input. Yes i read a couple of studies where they say the risk of cardiovascular diseases increase as you start going above 83 mg/dl and there were other potential risks below that number to, like a U-shaped relationship. And yes these are all guidelines, so best is to keep your...

I would say first thing you need to look is at your genes. If the D2 runs in the family then you have higher chances of beta cell issues than the insulin resistance. However, i am still unclear if we say D2 runs in a family, it maybe that insulin resistance runs in the family? You can only find...

Hi @Lelliee , there are couple of things i would add that might help based on my personal experience. 1. Metformin SR to be taken with the evening meal instead of morning meal because Met SR reaches to its peak at 7 hours as opposed to regular Metformin that reaches peak in 2-3 hours. Taking...

Hi @Elenas. Fasting Insulin levels below <6 are considered to be desired level and from 6-17 are elevated/borderline. Above 17 are definitely insulin resistant. You being at 17, i would suspect you are insulin resistant and to reduce the resistance, there is multi-regimen approach that you will...

I cam across this interesting study on a healthy Chinese population with BMI of 22 and different age-sets both men/women. I mean i am really happy to take the mean BG levels (both day and night and 24 hr) for a perfectly normal population to further correlate with the normal A1C cut point. From...

If you look at Protein Power book by Dr. Michael, he has given a good formula to calculate your lean body mass, BMI and protein requirements based on your wrist to height measurement (for men) and hip to waist measurement in women, which makes perfect sense.

Wow, well done. Would you through a little light on your journey, how your a1c have been throughout these years and complication or reversal. Just gathering data to understand correlation among diabetes length, BG levels (a1c) and complications, so it will be really helpful.

Thanks B. I understand you can not manage your BG levels with diet alone unless you manage your IR first or there is something that i am not quite getting here? hyperinsulinemia and IR over time is the reason you get the full blow D2 anyway. Most attribute it to your visceral fats and keeping...

That's a good example of T1 achieving optimal goals. Congratulation :)

Excellent point and i totally agree and have done a lot of reading and listening on that. I just didnt want to mix that topic in this one. This was mainly to focus on BGs and complications. I plan to do a detailed post on hyperinsulinemia as the root cause to prevent or cure diabetes. I am of...

I was asked for a repeat blood test in March 2019, which I couldn't due to my travel etc. Then Covid happened. I was now diagnosed on Dec 23rd 2020 with an a1c of 78. Upon asking i found my a1c in March 2019 was 53... That seems like I must be diabetic for few years now. So my experiments are...

Thank you for the summary and the difference here is the word normal vs optimal. Normals are different for ADA, Endo Societies or Europeans but optimal are what are mentioned above.