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True, and for me it makes a big difference what I eat with the sweet potato (or any carbs, for that matter). Mixed with lots of protein and fat it slows my gastric emptying so the carb doesn't hit my blood so quickly and what's left of my beta cells can keep up with it. However, if eat just a...

You must have had a high carb meal.

According to Dr. DeFronzo, metformin does not reduce insulin resistance, it's effect is on the liver. My fasting BG is usually in the low 100's/5.6 with out it, but in the 80's/4.6 with it. I am prediabetic.

Yes, this is a truly excellent site. There are studies that maintain that truly normal people never spike above 120/6.7, no matter what they eat. Also, my doc made the remark that 'everybody's pancreas eventually wears out', then corrected herself to 'well, not everybody, depends on the degree...

Yes, my husband's mother is 94 and eats all kinds of junk, so does he. The difference is that I have a genetic predisposition (from my father), while my husband and his family apparently have cast-iron pancreases (pancreai?) I just hope my daughter takes after him in that respect.

I was diagnosed as being barely Prediabetic also. However, with frequent testing I discovered that a chunk of baguette bread spiked my blood sugar above 200/11.1 According to the excellent site: www.bloodsugar101.com, at 140/7.8 pancreatic beta cells begin to die, accelerating the progression...

You are eating a LOT of carbs and driving up your blood glucose. Get a test kit and learn to eat to your meter. Lower your carbs until your blood sugar stays below 140/7.8 at all times. Blood glucose above 140/7.8 begins to kill pancreatic bata cells that you need to make insulin. If a person is...

Well, for Type 2, it all goes back to genetics. Some people have a super pancreas where the cells are robust and replace themselves sufficiently (like my 94 year old mother-in-law who eats refined carbs like mad and is none the worse for it). Others are not so lucky (like me), the cells don't...

No cure for Type 1 or Type 2, only managed. For Prediabetes, possibly, if caught early enough via LCHF diet, but takes years according to my doc.

When I was first diagnosed, I did a LOT of reading on insulin resistance and I came across a couple of studies that concluded that artificial sweeteners do increase insulin resistance, at least in rats and mice. I was a Coke-aholic, I bought into the idea pushed by the sugar industry that sugar...

I'm sorry that you are having such a hard time. As my doc reminded me when my A1c didn't budge, she said that without my diet and exercise changes and metformin they would be worse given my family history/genetic predisposition, and that I should be glad that my numbers didn't get worse. We do...

Greetings from the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in California. I am 58, female, diagnosed as prediabetic, HbA1c - 37, Fasting BG - 6.0 at diagnosis. Regular GP said no worries, stop eating sweets, outside system doctor put me on metformin due to my Dad being diabetic and Mom approaching...