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Dr Bernstein Talking About Why Doctors Tell People With Type1 To Run High


I don't recall anything about low carbs in the video I posted a link to, just target A1c and way they are set at a given level.
 
bulkbiker said:
I really don't think anyone has done that.. and having just re read the thread I think it is rather that @kev-w has questioned other people's regimes in a not very supportive way.
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I don't dissagree with you. But this has moved on in a T1 perspective......
There is a video of a T1 citing "blame culture" as to how it is to T1 A1c as is "set in stone."
I respect what you do for T2s. My dad was a T2 (no longer with us.) & before joining this forum i used what I knew about carbs to help him. (Series of mini strokes, leading to vascular dementia for my dad..) I take great comfort in the advice for T2 regarding that action with my dad. It at least prolonged his life & pulled him off the meds. (Such as his quality of remaining life was.)
You & other T2s have my gratitude on that score.
 
bulkbiker said:
I really don't think anyone has done that.. and having just re read the thread I think it is rather that @kev-w has questioned other people's regimes in a not very supportive way.
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Again,, as a T1d posting in the T1d section offering an opinion contrary to the T2's on the point or effectiveness of such quack fads as part of management of T1d, I'm going to speak strongly as I worry for the ones who use such methods simply based on some of the outrageous claims made and the confusion about the two conditions, and the potential for a miserable condition being made more miserable by that.

I began to have nightmares of blowing up like a balloon.
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is another of his pearls I'm currently enjoying with a Weetabix for supper.
 
kev-w said:
I'd never heard of Bernstein until I came on here, then someone posted that the good dr reckoned Lantus caused cancer, and at that point I started nodding and smiling when I see him referenced.
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In 2006 Dr Bernstein commented
https://www.diabeteshealth.com/can-insulin-cause-cancer/


Insulin Glargine/Breast Cancer Link Seen Again in Type 2 Diabetes- 2017
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/887204

https://www.breastcancer.org/research-news/long-term-use-of-glargine-may-increase-risk
 
Weetabix is my idea of torture... (not a carb issue), it’s the taste and texture of the stuff I can’t stand. Been the same with all cereals since I was a toddler - horribly squelchy stuff!
 

Nice chart...There's at least 3 other medical professionals with T1D who have found Dr B's "nonsensical" approach to be sensible..

Dr Ian Lake

Dr Keith Runyan

Dr Troy Stapleton
 
The Bernstein approach is an option in a sea of options for how to manage diabetes of all kinds.

Some people manage eating all the carbs just fine, and can dose and time brilliantly well to deal,with it and achieve great levels. Kev clearly can.

I’ve never been able to do that, my body’s response to carbs and insulin is just too unpredictable. So it’s a good option for me to minimise both. I’ve never particularly enjoyed carby food anyway, I’ve always thought of bread, pasta, spuds and rice as pretty bland plate fillers that soak up the interesting stuff. So I just have more of the stuff I like. Two curries instead of one with some rice, for example. I like Bernstein’s method and it’s working well for me - but he’s not a god. Some of his suggestions re intramuscular insulin injecting have proved to be very useful to me when I want faster corrections. I like Keith Runyan’s work too, although I’m not familiar with the others @kokhongw posted above. But for once (first time in 20 years, except when I was pregnant), I’m actually on top of my levels and I feel relatively healthy.

Tl;dr - horses for courses, innit?
 
Mel dCP said:
Weetabix is my idea of torture... (not a carb issue), it’s the taste and texture of the stuff I can’t stand. Been the same with all cereals since I was a toddler - horribly squelchy stuff!
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for me a milk soaked softened Weetabix is pleasure in a bowl but only with a little Candrel dusted on the top, 17 or so grams carbs with a slow digest, for my 'regime' using for supper works a treat as my days activity levels impact on my sleeping bloods, a lazy day has me skipping supper and a working.training day can see me eating 2
 
Hey @kev-w . Perhaps we should do a nice little YouTube presentation on how we live with diabetes. Seems the only way to go. Who knows we might even get put on a list.
 
Clearly the cancer risks from Lantus and other inslins is mostly an issue for type2 using insulin, as few people with type1 are using extremely high amounts. Hence I perfare to think of cancer being a risk of high inslin resistance, as the risk is just as high from the inslin my body makes.
 
Diakat said:
Wasn't that shredded wheat (eugh, straw bales)
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Now here's a funny thing, if I eat shredded wheat instead of weetabix I get an immediate spike and what appears to be insulin resistance, and they're roughly the same carbs.

Which is a shame as sw was my childhood cereal of choice, soaked in ice cold milk till they soften covered in sugar
 
Like @kev-w I had never heard of him either before joining this forum, and based on what people on here seem to think of him, I can't help but think of how people would blindly think anything from Apple is awesome, how anything with [insert actor] in it is awesome, anything from [insert band/artist] is awesome, anything from my country or home town is the best, and so on and so forth. He may very well had good advice, but don't just blindly follow things because he says it.
 
Why would they think any of those things without any evidence? They wouldn't, would they. I have to say that still being alive is quite a recommendation.
 
dbr10 said:
Why would they think any of those things without any evidence? They wouldn't, would they. I have to say that still being alive is quite a recommendation.
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Well that proves everything doesn't it, he's alive, unlike all the other diabetics who are also alive without his methods.
 
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