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Thank you. That does help. Good to chat to people who have been there. [emoji846]

Thank you for that, I’ll see what the consultant concludes with the eOGTT. I am Keto Carnivore (having tried all sorts over the years) - it has helped a lot. I recover much quicker if I get tired. How many carbs should I eat on the days before the test? I’m guessing Keto is not a good place...

P.s. I do not have diabetes nor use diabetic medication.

Hi, I have recently been told by an endocrinologist that I might have reactive hypoglycaemia, and this is a trigger for significant drops in energy that I experience. These energy drops never occur while driving. They most often occur when doing hard physical work - which for me includes...

The feeling of low can also occur when the blood sugar changes quickly. I have prediabetes and reactive hypoglycaemia. I can feel ‘off’ with both high and low blood sugar - when there has been a rapid change. Another difficulty can be catching a low on the blood sugar meter if the liver has...

I’m pre-diabetic, in 2016 I developed a bald patch on the back of my head. It started off the size of a small orange and increased over several months to the size of a melon. I had to work hard to get over the embarrassment of having so little hair on the back of my head, it shone whenever it...

Hi, really sorry I haven’t replied to posts. But the posts have been helpful. I realised that I totally needed to focus on Food and pacing. Which means that anything else has got to take second place until I get better. I managed to eat keto yesterday, and even dipped into a good level of...

I have experienced this level of fatigue for 20 years, it triggered the pre-diabetes. It is extremely debilitating. Many days I can barely cope with using a knife or fork, washing and other daily tasks. Shifting to burning fat instead of glucose for fuel does help (i.e. low carb or keto) but...

Slow cookers and electronic pressure cookers are great, unfortunately the process you are describing is only possible on a really good day - and those days are totally unpredictable in arrival. At the moment all I can manage is putting sausages in tin foil trays in the table top oven and waiting...

Thank you for your replies and ideas. I spent yesterday in bed, looks like today will be similar. It is easier, when I try to get up my legs and stamina were weak with some dizziness. I’ve probably got a relapse of my chronic condition. But at least this is allowing me to focus on food as I...

I hesitate to post, because I am desperate for practical ideas, help and support, but scared I’ll get “pull your socks up”. If I could, if I had the energy to do so then I would have done. I am struggling. I’ve moved house (rentals) twice this year, due to unforeseen circumstances - nothing...

I was browsing some tweets and found this posted recently. An interview with the arctic explorer famous for his fish, meat and fat based way of eating, and the experiment he did on his return to non-Arctic life. The nutrition bit is around 10 mins into the interview. Fascinating to see and...

Hi, to be perfectly honest I have tried to answer that question myself. I have food diaries going back many years. My first food diary was calorie counting in 2005/6. Then the diary was restarted in 2010 and got more consistent from 2012 to now. So I suppose, you could say that keeping a food...

https://www.scribd.com/document/381341405/Tim-Noakes The judgement in full.

this is probably already posted somewhere here - but this is fantastic... https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2018-06-08-its-finally-over-says-relieved-banting-guru-noakes/ This afternoon the HPCSA set Prof Noakes free. The appeal came back 100% supporting the original innocent...

I’ve just had a look for similar papers... https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/dmrr.1084 http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/26/4/1026 https://www.metabolismjournal.com/article/S0026-0495(17)30054-9/pdf I’ve not read them in depth, but they seem to be roughly similar to what I...

My blood glucose levels used to bounce up and down a lot after eating, they still do a bit. I did a diy glucose tolerance test several years ago and got a very bouncy graph (I checked my blood every 15 minutes for several hours). Back then I found several studies that suggested that bouncy was...

Isn’t it weird. I have looked at low histamine and low salicylate before - but the mix of veg I normally went with was not high in either, but then again those veg lists didn’t always agree between the lists on different websites for the same chemical. So I think I’m going to agree with you and...

My head is clearer and I have a touch more energy, a different kind of energy, more stable, more alive.

Well I have tried so many different things over the years, but I’ve never tried no veg before because in so many places we read and hear that vegetables are good for us, so I ate vegetables, and tried to eat at least 5 portions a day, except on a ‘poor food day’. This last month is the first...