the analogy I use is that of a rechargeable battery. Eating carbs is the charging cycle, and lowering intake reduces the amount and rate of charge. Note the way the liver stores glucose can be viewed in this manner, I think.Glucose lowering agents i.e. drugs do NOT work very well and essentially you're treating symptoms but not the root cause.
So I d say best way is to try low carb or fasting for real health benefits.
Insulin is bad because it makes the disease of insulin resistance worse as do the sulphonyuras (by juicing your insulin producing cells).
The newer classes of drugs such as SGLT in hibitors involve you peeing out some glucose and therefore do not incrase insulin resistance but there again they don' reduce it!
Jason \fung has written a good book explaining all of this ||The Diabetes Code - I like his analogy in which ctting carbs is like turning off your tap in a flood wheeas taking drugs is akin to simply making your drain slightly larger.
Your profile says you are T1 .. are you asking for a friend (in which case best to get them to join up themselves) or are you mislabelled?Hello
is there any consensus on best, or most tolerable glucose lowering agents for T2D?
Thanks
Agree: Caius is a lot smarter than many already, because he's looking to learn. That's the best you can do!the analogy I use is that of a rechargeable battery. Eating carbs is the charging cycle, and lowering intake reduces the amount and rate of charge. Note the way the liver stores glucose can be viewed in this manner, I think.
BTW I would have used the term innocent rather than ignoramus, You become an ignoramus if you deliberately stick your head in the sand and decide to do nothing to change your condition given all the useful advice there is on this site. There is a subthread describing Success Stories andTestimonials, and this may help identify strategies that you could try.
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/category/success-stories-and-testimonials.43/
Hello
is there any consensus on best, or most tolerable glucose lowering agents for T2D?
Thanks
Thanks mateGlucose lowering agents i.e. drugs do NOT work very well and essentially you're treating symptoms but not the root cause.
So I d say best way is to try low carb or fasting for real health benefits.
Insulin is bad because it makes the disease of insulin resistance worse as do the sulphonyuras (by juicing your insulin producing cells).
The newer classes of drugs such as SGLT in hibitors involve you peeing out some glucose and therefore do not incrase insulin resistance but there again they don' reduce it!
Jason \fung has written a good book explaining all of this ||The Diabetes Code - I like his analogy in which ctting carbs is like turning off your tap in a flood wheeas taking drugs is akin to simply making your drain slightly larger.
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Your profile says you are T1 .. are you asking for a friend (in which case best to get them to join up themselves) or are you mislabelled?
Caius - in order to make any sensible suggestions, it would be helpful if you gave us a bit more information to go on.
Hi. The best glucose lowering 'agent' is a low-carb diet. There are various tablets that can help including Metformin. Sulphonyl ureas such as Gliclazide and also insulin stimulate insulin production but this may be counterproductive if you are an overweight T2 as you will already have too much insulin but unable to use it efficiently. It's worth noting that Sulphonyl ureas and insulin do not cause weight gain. What they do is enable the body to produce more insulin and if too many carbs are eaten they enable the body to metabolise those carbs and store the glucose as fat if it's not needed.
Do you think they would be able to take a low carb diet on board?
Agree: Caius is a lot smarter than many already, because he's looking to learn. That's the best you can do!
Glucose lowering agents i.e. drugs do NOT work very well and essentially you're treating symptoms but not the root cause.
So I d say best way is to try low carb or fasting for real health benefits.
Insulin is bad because it makes the disease of insulin resistance worse as do the sulphonyuras (by juicing your insulin producing cells).
The newer classes of drugs such as SGLT in hibitors involve you peeing out some glucose and therefore do not incrase insulin resistance but there again they don' reduce it!
Jason \fung has written a good book explaining all of this ||The Diabetes Code - I like his analogy in which cutting carbs is like turning off your tap in a flood wheeas taking drugs is akin to simply making your drain slightly larger.
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Thankyou.
Are the modern drugs the glucagon pathway inhibitors like Dulaglutide and the -tides or something else.
With T1D the urinary urge with hi sugars is a bit unpleasant. Also with urination of sugars you dont change the bloods remaining concentration assuming your urin sugar concentration matches your bloods before for every x much sugar your expel, you'll explain the amount of water which gives it the measured concentration. I'm not 100% on that, but i think that how it works, hmmm..