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I used to have peripheral neuropethy quite badly. While it is caused by high BGs which lead to binding of glucose to the nerve sheaths the resulting attack by the immune system upon the affected nerves is massively exacerbated by trans-fatty acids incorporated into the nerve sheathes...

As this was the subject of today's mailing I thought I would make a comment. About a dozen years ago I was told by my GP that my risk of developing Alzheimers was three times higher than normal as I had diabetes. Now of course I know why, Alzheimers is mainly a trans fat disease these days (it...

I lost eight and a half stones on my diet! Extremely effective and it involved increasing my calory intake as well. In fact it was so effective I've had to go on a binge to try and put on weight recently as my waist had got down to 28" which is rather too tiny for a six foot man. I'm back up...

I know from personal eperience and the literature that low carb is simply symptom treatment and can only help in the early stages. You see once you have had trans fatty acid poisoning of the beta cells for a long period it doesn't matter what you do. The blood glucose keep on rising even if...

You have to realise that this is deception. The attribution of diabetes to fat and thin people (gras et maigre) can in no way be taken as a discrimination between two different types of diabetes. Even today it can take weeks to get a diagnosis. When the first cases of diabetes were discovered...

SID, I think the Nobel Proze is unlikely for me at any rate as the answer to what causes diabetes is well established in the scientific literature and has been since the 1950s. At the risk of repeating myself check out tfx.org.uk. The quacks of course do not want to know. Telling the...

Bunny, You asked for help so reluctantly I'm going to give you help. I'm reluctant because I get sick and tired of givng people the help they need when they prefer the pseudo science of diabetes dieting and to believe the mantras of the doctors and nurses who simply preach the lies...

CFS/ME is the subject of some exiting research at the moment. There is significant evidence that it is caused by a bug called Chlamydia Pneumoniae - not an STD but an airbourne bug. A new treatment called the Wheldon Treatment is being trialled. You should investigate this. Also I note that...

Sue, I am an incurable T2 suffer as I have made clear from the begining (i.e. at least at the end of my trial of it). The Cure however did cure me of obesity and has improved my diabetes, cured my peripheral neuropathy and improved my circulation. I no longer have crescendo angina or...

It sounds like T2 as you report normal readings other than at fasting. I had a similar fasting reading this morning 17 years post diagnosis and without taking any med for a couple of days. What is interesting to me is you seem to be developing T2 at 59 and appear to be overweight (unless you...

A few years ago when I was still stupid enough to be listening to the quacks and dieticians I was experimenting with extreme dieting as a method of losing weight. It was unusual for me to eat more than three days a week and in the end I had cut down to one light meal and one sandiwch a week...

Diabetes progresses at different rates in different genetic sub-types. People who get it relatively young typically in the 20s and early thirties and who are close to normal body weight are more likely to deteriorate more rapidly than those who develop it later in life. Typically they will be...

Possibly a touch of sciatica (T2 or T3) as a guess. Just had similar in T1, causes upper chest pain (LHS for me) quite similar to angina. Since then numbness, tingling and burning all around the upper torso and upper arms. I am also starting to get sharp and highly localised brief pains at...

Re: anyone on byetta even though they are under the bmi crit I didn't know there were BMI criteria for Byetta. I get it even though I have a normal BMI (17 years post diagnosis). It is topped up with a little long acting insulin and maintains my blood glucose at near normal levels despite...

Insulin Resistance where it is defined as a reduction in glucose transport into body cells is not properly part of type 2 diabetes but part of the metabolic syndrome which results in obesity. It is treated (as my diabetes specialist nurse says) by metformin which improves the action of insulin...

I don't care! I'm T2 and I eat anything I like and my waistline sticks stubornly at 30" which isn't bad for a six foot man 17 years after diagnosis. It wasn't always this way, I used to weigh in at 20 stone yet only ate 500 calories a day five years ago. At that point I checked out the peer...

There is some possibility that the Budwig diet might work in some cases as TFAs are also responsible for some excess cancers as well as Alzheimers and CV disease. Readers of this might also be interested to know that natural oils can reduce peripheral neropathy very significantly and cure...

This is true but it is not the suffers fault. In the fifties and sixties there was not much obesity (<2%) of the population or diabetes. The link between obesity and diabetes is simply that they are both caused by trans fatty acids contained in refined vegetable oils such as sunflower and...