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You're suggesting that I've been taken in by press releases, while directing me to a thread, from April last year, that discusses... a press release. The actual 5 year follow-up paper was published just last week...

He has proved it, in the majority of cases, conclusively. The numbers are in his papers - lower fasting BG despite lower fasting insulin secretion - the liver is secreting less glucose even though the level of insulin needed to suppress it is less. Lower insulin resistance in the liver. The...

To be fair to him Taylor does pin a lot of the blame on genetics in his book. If his Personal Fat Threshold theory is in fact true, then the root cause of T2 is putting on more weight than an individual's body can handle, with genetics determining the point at which fat starts to accumulate in...

That kind of statistic, that a Type 2 is likely to need insulin in 10 to 15 years following diagnosis, should be looked at in the context that people tend to put on weight and become less active as they age. There is a still-prevalent assumption amongst the medical community that Type 2...

There is an issue with the Libre 2 on Android version 14 phones at present. In my experience using an Asus Zenphone 10 the phone will not always automatically reconnect to the sensor if the Bluetooth connection drops. Scanning the sensor (touching the phone to it) re-establishes the connection...

See attached - graph of my resting heart rate over the Christmas period - pulled from my Fitbit. I went off my diet on December 18th, back on it for a few days between Christmas and New Year's, and back on it from Jan 2nd. The graph represents my body's efforts to reduce energy expenditure as...

This is true - energy is energy, but calories are not a great way to represent it in the context of food and managing weight. It is currently the simplest way to compare one food product with another but I think something better could replace it. Consider for example if the energy expended...

I know of no single resource that that can help you gain a very good understanding of diabetes and what to do about it. No matter how comfortable a person is with science-speak it's a nightmare trying to learn the ideal course of action after being diagnosed T2. The reality is nobody knows the...

Calories in and calories out is much too simplistic a way to describe energy but it can be a useful concept because it's simple. For example - the body expends much more energy metabolising protein than it does carbohydrates, and a certain amount of protein eaten daily goes toward building new...

My post are this post are not at odds. They say the same thing. The image you posted illustrates glucose metabolism, not fat metabolism. You can eat a high-fat diet and still lose body fat. Fat stored in adipose tissue (fat cells) will grow in in caloric surplus, and shrink in caloric...

Indeed - it's the longer term impacts that make exercise of any type worthwhile. Exercise reduces insulin resistance and depletes glycogen stores in muscle tissue, which helps to lower BG levels for a considerable period of time afterwards as the muscle tissue efficiently sponges up glucose to...

Just updating this thread in case my post about gliclazide as a test confuses anyone who comes upon it. I had an appointment with my endocrinologist today and I asked him what the purpose of putting me me on gliclazide for a week was. It wasn't any kind of rough test for T1 - there was a...

Hi there, There are lots of posts about remission and how to achieve it on this forum, though if I can make a suggestion I would go straight to reading a couple of good books first if remission is your primary goal. I spent months reading up on the subject online and have achieved my Masters...

For me at least ticking the T2 box is not putting me over the 10% mark. Based on my last bloods from a few weeks ago: Age: 46 Male Non-smoker Type2 On blood pressure treatment ticked Cholesterol/HDL ratio: 2.25 Systolic BP 130 Height 170cm Weight 85.7 I get a risk of 7.1% If I drop by BP to...

Strictly speaking Fasting Blood Glucose must be tested at least 8 hours after eating, and not drinking anything other than water during that time. Testing first thing in the morning before breakfast is the most convenient time, though it doesn't really matter how long you've been asleep so long...

@Melgar - Apologies, you are entirely correct and I should not have said that the OP 'might be entirely fine'. It was ignorant and insensitive of me.

Hi Roy, Everything you've posted appears to indicate little to no problem with insulin resistance. That might leave your liver and pancreas as possible culprits, or as @Lupf indicated, some healthy people might just have a high HbA1c. If that's the case you might be entirely fine. Just to...

Nope, I'm biased ;)

Good points - it seems like that Wikipedia page could do with an update. Any volunteers?

Yes, I can think why. I will not find a page about Dr. Unwin on Wikipedia because nobody has taken the time to create one. Here's a step by step guide: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-create-wikipedia-page-someone-step-by-step-guide-emily-palmer Here's an article in The Guardian that...