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    Diet, Health, and the Wisdom of Crowds

    I thought this was quite funny while informative. It’s a lecture by the man who made the Fat Head movie, called Diet, Health, and the Wisdom of Crowds.
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    Anyone with a low carb Springerle recipe or favorite Christmas cookie recipe?

    The holiday season is here. Decided I want to dig out the molds and make Springerle cookies this year. The regular ones need time to fully develop their flavor so I would make them weeks in advance, like now. When searching, I couldn’t find any low carb versions. Before I ruin a few batches...
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    Scientific Article On Lada: Current Status And New Horizons

    It’s always nice to find a new article on LADA. This is definitely a scientific article, but I thought it was interesting. Mentions some areas in which LADA has different prognosis from T1 or T2. . Also interesting that they talk about genetic differences. At the end they also talk about...
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    Petition for Dr Tim Noakes

    Although Noakes won the giant Keto vs standard diet law suit, there is now a petition to have him actually aquited of the charges of unprofessional conduct. Saw this on DietDr. If anyone is interested, here’s the article mentioning it with the link...
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    Virta 1 year study results. Go Keto!

    The Virta 1 year study results on nutritional ketosis are out. Guess what? Keto works for T2D. Decreased A1C, decreased weight, decreased meds. Surprise. Surprise. Also, dyslipidemia and markers of inflammation and liver function improved. Here’s the paper. You can download the entire 30...
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    1st appointment. Libre in my future! :)

    Yipeee! Just had my first appointment with the diabetes educator. She agrees I am probably not pre-diabetic, just reactive hypoglycemic. Even with high glucose, my insulin levels were never high, more like the low end of normal. We then discussed diet. Her advice was small meals with...
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    ”Fasting - The Movie”. Any thoughts?

    Has anyone else watched “Fasting - The Movie”? I saw it recommended on Dr Fung’s blog, he’s also one of the people in the movie. Yes, it is a rent or buy movie at this time. Here’s the blog and movie links if you are interested. https://idmprogram.com/1-rule-fasting/ http://fastingmovie.com/...
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    Light bulb moment/confession time

    I saw the numbers, glucose dropped 105 or 5.82 in one hour, bottomed out at 38 or 2.1, and received the diagnosis of reactive hypoglycemia, but felt left out. All these symptoms every one mentioned, yet I couldn’t identify. - Sure I get tired and grouchy, but I work nights. I’m always...
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    Using blood glucose to determine eating, or not.

    I'm new to this site, but have done low carb and intermittent fasting for years. Needless to say I was shocked to realize My CBG and A1C were high. I have been reading, researching, and checking my blood glucose in response to most everything. One of the sites I came across is run by a man...