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Hi @greencajun and welcome to the forum. We don't hear much about people with high insulin here because doctors usually only test for glucose. However it is thought (not proven yet) that Type 2 diabetes starts with insulin resistance, which then means that our bodies have to produce more...

I used the Dave Feldman 3day protocol in order to try to spoof my LDL lower just before a test. I only did it once, because my GP finally got the message that i was more concerned about HbA1C, and HDL and Trigs.

So don't take the course! If you are managing fine, then the risk of upsetting that is too high. Even recently there have still been some people complaining that Desmond was promoting EatWell - though that was live course and varies depending upon the individuals teaching it.

Hi @saky Sorry, I seem to have got the Triglyceride levels mixed a bit between US and UK units in my post above. For LDL and HDL to convert from US units (mg/dL) to UK units (mmol/L) you divide by 38.67 But for Triglyceride you divide by 88.57 However, the good news is that (according to...

Personally, I have always felt that low Triglyceride numbers are great. I spent around 10yrs (before finding Low Carb) trying to reduce mine. On low carb, once past the weight loss phase I found my trigs had almost halved and my HDL has almost doubled - both great results for me. But I suppose...

Sorry, no actual experience of them however there is plenty of quality information on the internet. But probably not what you want to hear: The 2 conclusions from this Meta Analysis on Plant Sterols and Blood Glucose seem to contradict each other...

Hi @takararose There is a whole world of confusion on the internet. You are not wrong that some people in here do Low carb eating around 130gms of carbs per day right the way down to less than 20gms of carbs per day. It needs to be based on how the carbs affect each individual (eating to your...

Several common conditions and medications can raise Blood Glucose including: Illness or injury Stress or lack of sleep Steroids and Statins and possibly some antibiotics

Lots of people have inflammation, it is thought that most Type 2's have inflammation due to Insulin Resistance, so reducing the carbohydrates may reduce the inflammation. An HbA1C of 52 is Diabetic, but only just - so something to take action on rather than something to worry about. A (total)...

Hi @Nikki365 For many of us Type 2 diabetics, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease come along just before or alongside T2 Diabetes and is corrected by a Low Carb way of eating just the same as for our T2 Diabetes. Do you know which specific foods do you need to avoid? I was under the impression...

A few ideas: Hard boiled eggs can be cooked and shelled before going to work - It takes almost no time to open a box, take out a hardboiled egg and eat it - even if you eat it in 3 or 4 bites! It is quite hard to get enough fats/ traditional oils to help you gain weight unless you can either...

Perhaps @Jonathantype2 was looking at information for Type 1 diabetics, for whom (in the absence of carbs, they have to bolus insulin for Proteins. Though as Type 2's we just ignore the affect of proteins on Blood Glucose since it is so minute!

Yes, any USA labels will tend to show Total Carbs, Net Carbs and Fiber (note the spelling). In this case, Total Carbs = Net Carbs + Fiber In the UK labels subtract Fibre (note the spelling) from the Total Carbs (since Fibre is not digested) so in the UK Carbs is just digestible carbs. So...

Hi @stevenA and welcome to the forum. I think this depends upon the person. For somebody who tends towards constipation, magnesium Citrate would be good. I tend the other way so I used Magnesium Glycinate (which supposedly also helps with sleep). From Twitter I know of 2 low carb doctors who...

Hi @Jonathantype2 No, short lived peaks during the time before 2hrs after first bite occur in 'normal' non-diabetics too, since the insulin reaction isn't instantaneous. We measure at the 2hr mark because in those non-diabetics their insulin reaction has normally driven the BG levels back down...

Type 2 doesn't become Type 1, but a Type 1 can also become Type 2 alongside their Type 1. Type 1 is caused by an auto immune problem causing the pancreas to stop producing insulin, Type 3 is the same sort of thing but caused by drugs or surgery. What often happens is that in an adult who isn't...

Michael Mosely is/was a TOFI (like me) and has written many books on diets plus exercise to reduce obesity and put T2 Diabetes into remission, though he doesn't have the successful patient base (just ones in the various BBC series) and general low carb community estime held by for example Dr...

@Margarettt Please post this explanation in your original thread so that new members reading that thread can see it and not just see the original attempts at explaining your supposedly random high BG levels .

The only ancestors that I'm interested in regarding diet etc. are much more immediate ones. Just enough back that although heart disease, cancer, T2 diabetes, obesity were being diagnosed, they weren't anything like as common as today. Then ask what has changed (both positive and negative). For...