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<blockquote data-quote="AloeSvea" data-source="post: 1922768" data-attributes="member: 150927"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">OMG - I forgot to say! Metformin will in all likelihood lower your FBGs asap. But your doctor would have suggested that straight off? Taking metformin that is. One of the ways it works is by turning the 'switch' off for creating your own blood glucose, which those with too high FBGs do, erroneously, due to hormone/glucose/insulin/Free Fatty Acids signalling issues going haywire in your organs and fat cells, is the theory behind it. The other way it works is by increasing your insulin sensitivity. Both good things if you need to lower your FBGs quickly.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I would also add - eat and drink things which raise your AMPK activation - turmeric is one of many foods which aid this. Look it up and choose your food and drink of choice which does this - lots of food and drink does. Off the top of my head, red bush tea, grape skin/resveratrol, anything that raises your ALA. And of course - supplements for big quantities. Turmeric and ALA work for me, in terms of improvements in BG and wellbeing, but one just has to take such and see. Many such things, when it comes to T2D, do not make much of an effect at all, judging from reading the alternative therapies section of this forum. But it is great when you find something that does help.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AloeSvea, post: 1922768, member: 150927"] [FONT=Arial]OMG - I forgot to say! Metformin will in all likelihood lower your FBGs asap. But your doctor would have suggested that straight off? Taking metformin that is. One of the ways it works is by turning the 'switch' off for creating your own blood glucose, which those with too high FBGs do, erroneously, due to hormone/glucose/insulin/Free Fatty Acids signalling issues going haywire in your organs and fat cells, is the theory behind it. The other way it works is by increasing your insulin sensitivity. Both good things if you need to lower your FBGs quickly. I would also add - eat and drink things which raise your AMPK activation - turmeric is one of many foods which aid this. Look it up and choose your food and drink of choice which does this - lots of food and drink does. Off the top of my head, red bush tea, grape skin/resveratrol, anything that raises your ALA. And of course - supplements for big quantities. Turmeric and ALA work for me, in terms of improvements in BG and wellbeing, but one just has to take such and see. Many such things, when it comes to T2D, do not make much of an effect at all, judging from reading the alternative therapies section of this forum. But it is great when you find something that does help.[/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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