Living-by-the-beach
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- Type of diabetes
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I read this story here
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fasting-cure-is-no-fad-11564676512
but what for me was really telling was the prevalence of folks doing 16-8 or 18-6 fasting routines and gaining really good weight loss. The above article was written by Dr Andreas Michalsen from the Charité University Hospital in Berlin.
I've interacted with a T2DM insulin dependent friend at my local church and I'm starting to make (for me at least) a connection to my own basal insulin level. This gentleman struggles with being about 22 stone or over 300 lbs. It is a known phenomena that injecting insulin can cause one to be permanently hungry.
Originally when I was diagnosed T2DM I had a weight of 252lbs. From there I got into what could be described as hard core fasting and got down to 182lbs of weight. Since then I've gone up inexorably to 220lbs give or take (and I've been eating 3 square meals + / day. I'm starting to think that my issue could so much better be corralled by skipping breakfast as my then basal insulin level at a lower threshold and not causing me to be hungry all the time? Whodathunk?
I'm off to high altitude ski-resort tomorrow and when I go there for a few days I typically lose about 1/2 a lb of weight / day. High altitude alters one's leptin ghrelin and insulin levels. I'm going up for about a month yet I'm thinking I'll be more successful if I just quit eating 3 square meals a day and only enjoying 2 decent meals. I'll keep you all posted..
—Dr. Michalsen is a professor at Berlin’s Charité University Medical Center. This essay is adapted from his new book, “The Nature Cure: A Doctor’s Guide to the Science of Natural Medicine,” which Viking will publish on Aug. 6.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fasting-cure-is-no-fad-11564676512
but what for me was really telling was the prevalence of folks doing 16-8 or 18-6 fasting routines and gaining really good weight loss. The above article was written by Dr Andreas Michalsen from the Charité University Hospital in Berlin.
I've interacted with a T2DM insulin dependent friend at my local church and I'm starting to make (for me at least) a connection to my own basal insulin level. This gentleman struggles with being about 22 stone or over 300 lbs. It is a known phenomena that injecting insulin can cause one to be permanently hungry.
Originally when I was diagnosed T2DM I had a weight of 252lbs. From there I got into what could be described as hard core fasting and got down to 182lbs of weight. Since then I've gone up inexorably to 220lbs give or take (and I've been eating 3 square meals + / day. I'm starting to think that my issue could so much better be corralled by skipping breakfast as my then basal insulin level at a lower threshold and not causing me to be hungry all the time? Whodathunk?
I'm off to high altitude ski-resort tomorrow and when I go there for a few days I typically lose about 1/2 a lb of weight / day. High altitude alters one's leptin ghrelin and insulin levels. I'm going up for about a month yet I'm thinking I'll be more successful if I just quit eating 3 square meals a day and only enjoying 2 decent meals. I'll keep you all posted..
—Dr. Michalsen is a professor at Berlin’s Charité University Medical Center. This essay is adapted from his new book, “The Nature Cure: A Doctor’s Guide to the Science of Natural Medicine,” which Viking will publish on Aug. 6.
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