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This (it's bad for your teeth) comes up over and over - yet we all know the thing about dissolving a tooth in a glass of coke overnight- when has anyone ever dissolved a tooth in a glass of water with a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar in it? The absolute worst thing for your teeth is to eat...

I'm taking as powder with my bullet proof coffee every day, more or less. No downside as far as I can tell.

I guess I should chip in with my usual "but - insulin resistance" chime... @daski - it looks like you are already well ahead of the curve in terms of pulling in and figuring out some of the terms. In trying to get a grip on what any given level of glucose measurement means, you should be aware...

I guess try it and see... it's only ground up chick peas rather than ground up wheat, so will still be quite a lot of carbs, as @Kernow Debra says, but your body may react differently to it. Personally, I love me some chick peas, but at least for the present, I have to stay away from them, on...

Just to touch on the "should I lose weight" question, in my case, (and sounds like this may ring true for you - but as @Melgar points out; you absolutely should not take any of this as advice to do anything) ... There is without doubt a connection between obesity and diabetes T2 - but at least...

@djp23 - Hi, and welcome to the forum. You may or may not get something out of reading my post as mentioned above - initially I had much the same question - I'm at my ideal weight, I'm fit; how on earth can I have hit this blood sugar threshold, and where is the borderline between non-alcoholic...

Excellent - and glad that you got some feedback from your doctor. Hope it goes well in six weeks (and I was really just curious what was in your mind..)

How do you think it might change? is there anything you plan on doing over the next six weeks that may have an effect?

Just to back up what's already been said - I suspect about a year ago I would have fallen into the "you'll never take bread away from me" camp. @chrispem - so I totally relate. Bread was the thing I thought I would have the biggest issue with leaving off my plate, but I haven't had a single...

You're quite right... I should have used the word "monitor"

Because it's on the threshold and the HbA1c takes precedence as your spot measurement result will vary a lot over the day. there are things you can do if you are concerned, but there is no particular need to be concerned.

Hi @normalhuman - You are using the US form of units, but they both pretty much are equivalent, and say the same thing - your blood glucose is in the range considered normal. A fasting plasma glucose level between 100 and 125 mg/dL (5.6 to 6.9 mmol/L) or an HbA1c level between 5.7% and 6.4%...

This is probably the most recent study to look into the role of Cholesterol. One thing to mention first, is that this comes out of Sweden, where opinions regarding the relative importance of fats and carbs are slightly more progressive, with the Swedish Council on Health and Technology...

As much as I dislike the idea of vinegar on chips - it really does help - for the same reason ACV works - it inhibits the enzymes in the mouth that would otherwise turn the starch in the chips into sugar, so overall it slows down the digestion of sugar. Of course, not as effective as avoiding...

The answer is really both, because before Bernstein there wasn't even a concept of there being a connection between measurement and control - as obvious as that sounds now.

@Nicola M - I've really gone deep on what Metformin is and what it does - there is no question at all that it's the med with the least side effects, but it does many, many things - to the point that we just don't know all the things and in some cases, why they have the effect they do. There are...

@Antje77 - I say this only from my kind of dual-state of having been a Type 1 and also Type 2 - but the view of what insulin is and does tends to be a polar opposite - because it is - type 1; not enough and type 2; too much. The role of reducing blood glucose is life-saving for Type one, but is...

For what it's worth, I just caught something related to this that may help to visualise: Most hormones work in an antagonistic manner - so insulin and glucagon in constant battle (other than T1) So it is with one set of stress hormones - Cortisol vs Oxytocin and Melatonin. Cortisol - fight or...

Thanks for the heads-up @IanBish and @Antje77 - this is already on my list of things to get more into, but it's a really well known effect, and I've tended to think of it as "the cat - stroking peptide" - This starts to get into the mechanism of why human community and support (and hell, even...

Would just support everything already said - the better at control you get, the less it has to do with food, and more to do with other systems. Exercising is always different, because muscle cells will accept glucose even in the absence of insulin when you exercise.