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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sgm14" data-source="post: 2739522" data-attributes="member: 517358">I didn't mean to say (or imply) that carbs were needed. Indeed I was under the impression that this was generally accepted - based on the observation that before insulin was discovered, most type 1 diabetics still died even if they avoided all carbs.Apparently my message was edited to remove the 'patronising'  bit where I said it was overly simplistic (it was supposed to be an ELI5) . So whilst I did said that 'carbs gets converted to glucose and absorbed into your blood stream' this is indeed overly simplistic as it is not the only way that we can get glucose - it just happens to be the most common.So I would agree that carbs are not needed for brain function, but I still think glucose is needed or do you (or your endo) disagree?</blockquote>

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