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<blockquote data-quote="Freema" data-source="post: 1327827" data-attributes="member: 329519"><p>Well well well metformin doesnt help much the main part of control is actually a drastic diet change . Metformin helps mostly in the part of the disease that is due to the overactive liver spitting/producing far too much glucose out all day But especially in the mornings the dawn phenomenon and it helps insuline resistance a bit in those respects it helps like 10-25 % like reducing the HbA1c about maybe 10-25% </p><p>But most have such high levels that such a reduction is NOT at all enough . So there is no way avoiding changing ones diet in almost all aspects ... one needs to see carbs as a kind of personal poison especially the High spiking But actually also all the other carbs , some even has to also count their intake of proteins as They too are turned into glucose by ones liver if eating too High amounts of those too .. fat is the only food that doesn't at all affect the blood glucose ( only 5-10% is turnes into glucose when broken down , and only very slowly , and only if glucose is NOT already available and thereafter proteins from foods are NOT either ...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Freema, post: 1327827, member: 329519"] Well well well metformin doesnt help much the main part of control is actually a drastic diet change . Metformin helps mostly in the part of the disease that is due to the overactive liver spitting/producing far too much glucose out all day But especially in the mornings the dawn phenomenon and it helps insuline resistance a bit in those respects it helps like 10-25 % like reducing the HbA1c about maybe 10-25% But most have such high levels that such a reduction is NOT at all enough . So there is no way avoiding changing ones diet in almost all aspects ... one needs to see carbs as a kind of personal poison especially the High spiking But actually also all the other carbs , some even has to also count their intake of proteins as They too are turned into glucose by ones liver if eating too High amounts of those too .. fat is the only food that doesn't at all affect the blood glucose ( only 5-10% is turnes into glucose when broken down , and only very slowly , and only if glucose is NOT already available and thereafter proteins from foods are NOT either ... [/QUOTE]
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