Looks like the chart profiles that Joseph Kraft pioneered with the theory of 'Diabetes In Situ' - great info here on it. http://www.thefatemperor.com/blog/2...-r-kraft-exposing-the-true-extent-of-diabetes
Thinking I might get myself a fasting insulin test out of curiosity.
I have got his book - and extremely turgid it is too- he was clearly a statistician not writer.
I was diagnosed with diabetes in August last year. I took part in the Noakes Study in March . At the time I knew nothing about fasting insulin of how it responded to anything.
If you look at the attached charts
When I took part in the Tim Noakes study , Everyone was theoretically a T2 Diabetic on a 70% fat diet with an average duration of the diet of 2 years -longest 6 years and longest diagnosis upto 30 years. I had been on LCHF for only 6 months - the shortest time of any participant.
As of the study date - practically everyone has normal hba1C , fasting glucose and fasting insulin. They are looking into the outliers and I know that one of those has now been rediagnosed as a T1 diabetic instead..
In March I was an outlier for fasting insulin with a score of 20. At the time I postulated that just as fasting insulin increases overtime with obesity - so should it come down over time too with sugar control on LCHF. I asked them if they could supply me with data which showed time on diet compared to fasting insulin - but they didn't provide those figures.
6 months later my hba1C moved down 1 to 42, my fasting glucose down to 5.3 and my insulin down from 20 to 8 - so as of no I am no longer an outlier anywhere. and in their terms would o longer be considered to have any diabetic markers so that seems to confirm it.
I am still obese, though clearly I used to be a lot more obese. I will never know just how high my fasting insulin and insulin responses got , though looking at the data one could only assume pretty damned high!
In the end - none of the data is very meaningful to you until our have your own track record because its how your body responds personally to what you are doing that matters - but with no starting point one will never know !
The actual participant data really does show a clustering of figures around normal for everything - the starting points of the participants were hba1C anything from 30-130, and with medications before starting 35 to 90 - at that time 11 people were still on insulin , post LCHF 8 people had come off insulin and the mean weight loss was 21kg.
Overall pretty much vindicates LCHF in my book !
good luck with it
