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  1. Chris24Main

    Diabetes, nightmares and vivid dreams.

    And of course, humans have dreamt as long as there have been humans - nothing to do with glycaemic control. However, if blood glucose is falling, the brain will see that and release stress hormones, so it isn't too surprising that your brain (which is creating an environment to experience in...
  2. Chris24Main

    Diabetes, nightmares and vivid dreams.

    Not directly on topic, but close enough - I've only ever had one nightmare; I was seven, and the dream was that the family was in the house we were actually living in, in an expatriate community in Nigeria. Someone was in the house, and killing everyone, one at a time, until it was just myself...
  3. Chris24Main

    Diabetes, nightmares and vivid dreams.

    Everyone dreams - but not everyone remembers dreaming...
  4. Chris24Main

    Confused whether Type 1 or Type 2

    Like many things with Diabetes - the answer is usually that it's more complicated - in this case both generally and specifically. If you start with the assumption that all diabetes is about controlling blood glucose, and that T1 is a sudden and total loss of control, whereas T2 is a slow...
  5. Chris24Main

    Advice Please!

    Oh wow - that means you were diagnosed as T2 at 14? - huge congratulations for navigating through all of that. Two sides to this, as a 23-year-old - on the one, uncontrolled; you have much higher risks of the things you are concerned about, statistically speaking when you get to the sort of...
  6. Chris24Main

    Diabetes, nightmares and vivid dreams.

    "Why we Sleep" by Matthew Walker is well worth the read, and may give you a different insight to otherwise difficult dreams. It's also worth reflecting that only more complex species that had evolved the ability to regulate temperature can dream, yet everything sleeps, and there is a good line...
  7. Chris24Main

    Food combining?

    Going down a bit of a rabbit hole, but wanted just to pick at this - It's one of the things that is ... used as evidence ... but isn't quite correct. In a lab (and this is all Ben Bikman, he did the lab work but also the rebuttal to the way it was represented). 1 - in a lab - you can take...
  8. Chris24Main

    Food combining?

    It is funny isn't it, how quickly the outrage and attacks kick off? particularly when so much of the food industry is about selling us things that we don't really need. I've read Jesse Inschaupés book, listened to her personal story, and seen her interviewed many times. I don't do Instagram...
  9. Chris24Main

    Kenny's "In Remission" thread - Five Years Keto

    Congrats @KennyA ... I wonder how often anyone challenges their result with the confidence I'm sure you had..
  10. Chris24Main

    Can you really prevent type 2 diabetes?

    @ianf0ster - yes, you are totally correct, I tripped over auto correct. @Antje77 - sorry if I sound obstructionist, but I specifically don't want to say anything other than what I've said. The rates of all types of diabetes are rising at rates that are not evolutionarily likely. The guidelines...
  11. Chris24Main

    Can you really prevent type 2 diabetes?

    I would stand by what I said, precisely word for word. I'm not advocating low carb per se, but the current guidelines for the majority of food intake as carbs, and demonising fats, has done terrible harm to every population that has adopted it. That is not at all to blame anyone for doing just...
  12. Chris24Main

    Food combining?

    Couldn't agree more, having had exactly that this morning...!
  13. Chris24Main

    Noticed a huge improvement in my energy levels since lowering blood sugar?

    @TheJungleFour - congrats on a great start, and glad to hear that things have gone well having stopped the Gliclazide - I'm assuming you haven't yet discussed that with your GP? It may be a good idea to just let them know. In the end everything is your choice, but always better to keep the...
  14. Chris24Main

    Food combining?

    It's worth reflecting on the fact that the sugar industry first objected to the use of the term Glycaemic Index, but then got quite enthusiastically behind it. Many in the space recommend thinking about the Glycaemic Load - which is to say as others are saying, it's all got to be dealt with one...
  15. Chris24Main

    Trulicity

    He stole your phone, and threw it in the canal - as a form of protest? - wow, that's a new one.... Presumably he wouldn't get the joke if someone threw him in the canal....
  16. Chris24Main

    Rude NHS diabetes nurse - new diagnosed with Steroid Induced Diabetes

    @missdingking - We all have a steroid-induced blood glucose raise every day, when your circadian rhythm triggers a release of Cortisol to get you going for the day. Cortisol - is a (naturally occurring) Cortico-Steroid, as are all other Cortico-Steroids; we usually just call them steroids (and...
  17. Chris24Main

    Spike after shower?

    Heat shock proteins are a thing - this is one of the key benefits of saunas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_shock_protein
  18. Chris24Main

    COVID and insulin resistance

    Just to pop something in from Ben Bikman, who has spent a lifetime studying insulin resistance: The three direct causes of IR are: 1. Elevated Insulin (might seem pointlessly obvious, but the body will need more of anything over time to have the same effect) 2. Inflammation (of all types - and...
  19. Chris24Main

    Can you really prevent type 2 diabetes?

    I'll bite, as a fellow pedant at seeker of the right word.... - but, sensitively; I think there is a lot to unpack in what you say @Angela64 - many of us feel that dramatic and sudden shock; even without needing a trip to A&E. .... So, I would start off, with - many types of diabetes can be...
  20. Chris24Main

    Eggs

    You don't have to go much further back to a time when the recommendation was "two a day if you are well, four if you are unwell"..
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