A regular vlogger on YouTube recommends high complex carb, not skipping meals, etc. The video on my screen now - "5 Ways to Lower Blood Sugar Faster than Anything Else (Science Backed)" - has had 366k views. So he's obviously an influencer. This is the very strategy I tried for many years, and it failed dismally. I persisted with it until I was refused vital surgery because it was dangerous with my A1c of 88. Only at that point did I question medical advice and bring my A1c down with a low carb diet.
Now, this vlogger says a low carb diet doesn't FIX insulin resistance, which may well be true. But at least it lowers very dangerous high blood glucose levels, and if his advice FIXED insulin resistance, then after 15 or so years adhering to it, I would have been cured, not much worse. And let me put this into the equation: For me, obesity wasn't the issue. When I was diagnosed, I was not at all overweight. I did gain some weight with diabetes, but not excessive. And with the low carb regime, I lost that bit of weight, even though my calorie intake had likely increased, not reduced, and my sadly slightly lazy ways were unchanged.
This is just my experience. But with Type 2 diabetes at epidemic levels, something is amiss.
Now, this vlogger says a low carb diet doesn't FIX insulin resistance, which may well be true. But at least it lowers very dangerous high blood glucose levels, and if his advice FIXED insulin resistance, then after 15 or so years adhering to it, I would have been cured, not much worse. And let me put this into the equation: For me, obesity wasn't the issue. When I was diagnosed, I was not at all overweight. I did gain some weight with diabetes, but not excessive. And with the low carb regime, I lost that bit of weight, even though my calorie intake had likely increased, not reduced, and my sadly slightly lazy ways were unchanged.
This is just my experience. But with Type 2 diabetes at epidemic levels, something is amiss.
