Agree! We are told as type 1's to have 60-70% of our diets consisting of carbs... Sure this will just keep the pharma companies rich with the amount of insulin needed!As a Type 2 lack of knowledge in a lot of HCP's leads to some pretty horrendous advice. If you hang around here for a while you'll discover that loads of Type 2's have used low Carb and Keto diets to control their condition very well me included as well as a fair few Type 1's. The HCP advice tho is usually follow the eatwell guide which is more carbs with every meal than I eat in a whole day.
I find it quite frustrating and try my best to educate wherever possible but its quite hard to change ingrained opinions even hen you have the evidence of your own figures to show them.
There's plenty of American alternative medical people online that say they can and have reversed type 2 with diet alone,
Personally, I think (hope) that it's going to get better in a couple of years. Recently I listened to Joe Rogan's podcast where he interviewed Dominic D'Agostino, one of leading proponents of the keto diet. He's seen evidence that low carbing not only helps cognitively (you're not as tired after meals) but it also can resolve cases of epilepsy that don't respond to medication and help with a host of other diseases, including diabetes as we all know.
So hopefully the evidence of the benefits of low-carb diet will keep coming in and will be so significant that the medical community at large will be forced to acknowledge it, rewrite their century old textbooks and change the way they treat diabetes.
One of the frightening and totally unsupportive things told to Type 2s on diagnosis is that the disease is progressive and we will be on insulin sooner rather than later.
My GP told me that I had a hypo because I ate something sweet so my body produced too much insulin which caused the resultant low blood sugar ........I sat there with my mouth open....... (Type 1 since 1961---she must have thought I was type 2, perhaps....)? If that was the case my GP would have discovered the long awaited cure (eat sweet things so your dead and defunct pancreas will once again produce insulin)! I actually felt unable to correct my GP--after all I do need her on my side!!Hi all.
New to the Forum but not to diabetes.
I just would like to ask people here what do they think of the level of knowledge displayed by the diabetic treatment teams they visit?
I ask this out of frustration. In recent times I was trying to come up with ways to better manage my Blood Sugars and discovered the low-carb/keto diet. This was a revelation for me as the level of control is crazy. I don't get the BG spikes anymore or I don't require crazy amounts of insulin anymore, and I RARELY have a hypo! Yes keeping your BG level optimal reduces hypos because the trend in BG moves very slowly up/down so it's very easy to predict.
So I was chatting with people in the health care industry and other type one diabetics and I get this "OH NO YOU HAVE KETONES". Yet they won't take the time to listen that I have those intentionally and the Ketone levels are miles away from a ketoacidosis level, and ketoacidosis won't happen when keeping BG optimal with small amounts of insulin, how is this hard to understand? I explain that I can get out of the Ketosis in a very short time with a few carbs and insulin and they still don't understand.
To me, it seems that they are taught a certain way to treat diabetes and not taught about the condition itself.
This is just one very small example I could think of but have ran into many more mind boggling examples before, I just said I'd mention the keto diet as an example. Has anybody ever been told to do something that you know isn't the best for you and so on? Is the approach to treat diabetes dated?
Thanks
When I saw a dietician, for the first time in 50 years, she didn't even know how much cho was in a slice of bread---so basic it is untrue....!!! I had already told her that I took sandwiches to work--ones that I made myself then she said that it must be so difficult to work out how much cho was in sandwiches I bought in the staff canteen. The entire appointment was a bit of a waste of time......!!!!!!Hi and Welcome. I am a t1 and it seems to me that I am on my own wuth regards to anything outside the current orthodoxy. I can get my co morbidities (eyes, kidneys and heart checked though I have 1 sided discussions re the relevance of my 7% total cholesterol) but keto is not on the diwticians' menu and the diabetologist has no advice on food but has offered me statins and metformin! Both declined as she coukd not tell me how they would help my risk.
I think there is a growing body of evidence that low carb is safe as well as effective. If the clinicians can also get over their dogmatic fear of fat in light of this new evidence and because there are pioneers out there will be change!
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