Hi, Iam 64 year old who has experienced higher Hb1ac levels after two car accidents within 3 years causing inflamtion and reduced lifestye. I was able to bring the number down due to adjusting my diet with exercise, fasting and lowering my carbohydrates (eating a lessor amount). Since 2014, I retired which was great to be able to concentrate on working on my diet and experiment with food types.. When I was younger I never had a problem with blood sugar but it started to climb up due to lack of exercise and my weight going up. Since I have got my weight at my high school weight, perfect for by exercising after retiring. I also track my glocose numbers after 16 hour fast and eat at 1:30pm the next day when my numbers drop below 6.9 rate. .This was my own plan I figured out that worked for me and was able to refuse the attempts of my nurse practioners pleas for me to start taking drugs to lower my blood sugar for future benefits?even though I was able to bring it back to prediabetic levels below 6.4 hblac levels. Beside trying a Keto diet approach was hard since bread not included to the diet(less carbs) allthough keto bread was very good except for the price. Eating good fats is great for losing weight and healthy. I have been reading a plant based diet with little or no animal protien and eliminating proceessed milk , eggs,and butter is documented to have the best effective diet to reduce blood suger, I also beleive due to naturopathic testing that insulin molecules are damaged by saturated or bad fats which effects the cell membrance permubility with diets with animal fats and acidic protien (meat) causing gasritis in the stomach (excesive mucous) also lowered HCL maybe due to acidic aniaml protien diet which causes inflamation at the cell level with ineffective transport of insulin to the cell . Also the saturated animal fats accumulate in the liver and pancreas casung blockage in the cells and to insulin resistance. I am starting to feel very sorry for the animals. Has anyone tried this kind of change to their diets? Also my twin brother has been on insulin since age 30 and and I beleive that due to a lack of being hydrated and smoking (lowers vit C) and inactivity and an animal protien diet is the cause of his inflamation. He and I are geting better Hb1ac results by changing our diet.