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<blockquote data-quote="LittleGreyCat" data-source="post: 2133138" data-attributes="member: 6467"><p>[USER=514165]@stevew242[/USER] I wonder about the ketone levels and their significance.</p><p></p><p>OMAD will almost certainly mean that you spend some of your day in ketosis.</p><p></p><p>A ketone level of 2.2 is reasonably normal if you are on a ketogenic diet.</p><p></p><p>The issue is if you are generating ketones because your body can't process carbohydrates for energy any more, not because it doesn't have enough carbohydrate in the diet. </p><p>High BG is a major indication of this so your health team are wise to be taking all precautions with your treatment.</p><p></p><p>You say you are still producing some ketones. About how many?</p><p></p><p>You also talk a lot about OMAD and ketogenic diets; is your current eating regime one that might encourage ketone production? It would be ironic if you were taking insulin to suppress ketogenesis when on a ketogenic diet, then having to top up with carbohydrates due to lack of ketones.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, T2D can be progressive and require a slow increase in medication.</p><p>I have been diagnosed over 11 years now, and just gone up to 4 * 500 mg Metformin a day.</p><p>Perhaps if I live long enough I will one day need insulin, but there are another couple of steps in the protocol before that is mandated.</p><p></p><p>The people with the best results for remission seem to be those who are carrying a lot of extra weight on diagnosis and manage to shed enough quickly to get the fat out of the internal organs before they are seriously damaged. Unfortunately I don't fit that profile.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LittleGreyCat, post: 2133138, member: 6467"] [USER=514165]@stevew242[/USER] I wonder about the ketone levels and their significance. OMAD will almost certainly mean that you spend some of your day in ketosis. A ketone level of 2.2 is reasonably normal if you are on a ketogenic diet. The issue is if you are generating ketones because your body can't process carbohydrates for energy any more, not because it doesn't have enough carbohydrate in the diet. High BG is a major indication of this so your health team are wise to be taking all precautions with your treatment. You say you are still producing some ketones. About how many? You also talk a lot about OMAD and ketogenic diets; is your current eating regime one that might encourage ketone production? It would be ironic if you were taking insulin to suppress ketogenesis when on a ketogenic diet, then having to top up with carbohydrates due to lack of ketones. Anyway, T2D can be progressive and require a slow increase in medication. I have been diagnosed over 11 years now, and just gone up to 4 * 500 mg Metformin a day. Perhaps if I live long enough I will one day need insulin, but there are another couple of steps in the protocol before that is mandated. The people with the best results for remission seem to be those who are carrying a lot of extra weight on diagnosis and manage to shed enough quickly to get the fat out of the internal organs before they are seriously damaged. Unfortunately I don't fit that profile. [/QUOTE]
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