DavidGrahamJones
Well-Known Member
From what I've read on this forum over the last couple of years I have formed the opinion that different foods can affect different people in different ways with respect to BG levels.
Having started to use my FreeStyle Libre (why did I wait so long after purchase?) I've been trying to find ways of preventing liver dumps which seem to take my BG up almost as soon as I go to sleep. I stumbled across a website that talks about optimising nutrition and one of the things they have is a list of Insulin Indexes for different foods.
Apologies if it's "old hat", but I thought it was interesting: https://optimisingnutrition.com/2015/03/23/most-ketogenic-diet-foods/
Some good links as well.
Something that might be related to my BG rising as soon as I go to sleep (and start shallow breathing) is BG falling when I breath oxygen. I am now 2/3 of the way through Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy. Mainly of use for MS patients but it also aids the healing process. I'm using it to help with Brain Fog and muscle pain possibly caused by a break in the Kreb cycle where I'm not producing enough ATP (or is it ADP), possibly something to do with low levels of CoQ10. When researching HbOT I came across several stories of patients avoiding amputations because ulcers and infections had "cleared up" more rapidly with HbOT. Sports people use it to speed up recovery and to train at higher levels. Whenever I start to breath oxygen my BG drops, for example on Friday at 10:00 it dropped from 12 (despite no food since 19:30 previous night and only small pot of low fat/no added sugar yoghurt for breakfast) to 9, then went back up to 10.5 after I stopped breathing oxygen.
Next week's sessions will be at higher pressure, equivalent to 33ft underwater, so we'll see if the pressure makes any difference.
Having started to use my FreeStyle Libre (why did I wait so long after purchase?) I've been trying to find ways of preventing liver dumps which seem to take my BG up almost as soon as I go to sleep. I stumbled across a website that talks about optimising nutrition and one of the things they have is a list of Insulin Indexes for different foods.
Apologies if it's "old hat", but I thought it was interesting: https://optimisingnutrition.com/2015/03/23/most-ketogenic-diet-foods/
Some good links as well.
Something that might be related to my BG rising as soon as I go to sleep (and start shallow breathing) is BG falling when I breath oxygen. I am now 2/3 of the way through Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy. Mainly of use for MS patients but it also aids the healing process. I'm using it to help with Brain Fog and muscle pain possibly caused by a break in the Kreb cycle where I'm not producing enough ATP (or is it ADP), possibly something to do with low levels of CoQ10. When researching HbOT I came across several stories of patients avoiding amputations because ulcers and infections had "cleared up" more rapidly with HbOT. Sports people use it to speed up recovery and to train at higher levels. Whenever I start to breath oxygen my BG drops, for example on Friday at 10:00 it dropped from 12 (despite no food since 19:30 previous night and only small pot of low fat/no added sugar yoghurt for breakfast) to 9, then went back up to 10.5 after I stopped breathing oxygen.
Next week's sessions will be at higher pressure, equivalent to 33ft underwater, so we'll see if the pressure makes any difference.
