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Psyllium for T2 diabetes

Still maintaining that there should be a load of carbs eaten, but by taking the supplement it isn't dangerous to do so.

Not logical.

Still ignoring that cholesterol is an essential part of the normal metabolic processes and is made in the liver, not something bad which is absorbed from 'wrong' foods and needs to be eliminated.
 
Tannith said:
https://www.researchgate.net/public...rol_in_Subjects_with_Type_2_Diabetes_Mellitus
This is about how psyllium can lower blood sugar as well as cholesterol, by preventing absorption.
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Other studies I heev read suggest that psyllium is not that useful being mainly soluble fibre, whereas the stuff you really want is full of insoluble fibre that forms the lattice work which the soluble elements can hang off to slow absoprtion. celery is a good example. the article itself is yet another example of people treating symptoms that shouldn't be there in the first place with a proper diet !
 
Tannith said:
https://www.researchgate.net/public...rol_in_Subjects_with_Type_2_Diabetes_Mellitus
This is about how psyllium can lower blood sugar as well as cholesterol, by preventing absorption.
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thank for posting, I do have to inform that some kinds of medicine are also prevented from being uptaken if one eat phylissium among which is levothyroxin. so to some it can be dangerous to eat a lot of phylissium if one takes any life-preventing medication..

but I think if it is eaten in another meal than ones medication it might be okay...

I think it coulld be a fine strategy to eat phylissium if diabetes type 2 without any medication is the only disease one has to fight
 
Freema said:
thank for posting, I do have to inform that some kinds of medicine are also prevented from being uptaken if one eat phylissium among which is levothyroxin. so to some it can be dangerous to eat a lot of phylissium if one takes any life-preventing medication..

but I think if it is eaten in another meal than ones medication it might be okay...

I think it coulld be a fine strategy to eat phylissium if diabetes type 2 without any medication is the only disease one has to fight
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Thank you. Good point. I personally don't take any such medications. Psyllium is not cheap but it is cheaper than, say ALA, which many on here take to lower blood sugar. I didn't actually start taking psyllium for blood sugar (I didn't know about that), but because my low carb diet has been giving me severe constipation. I then found that the psyllium worked wonderfully to stop me lying awake hungry at nights. If it also lowers cholesterol then that is an added bonus for me as I have the "10 year heart risk" thing, for which my GP has advised me to lower my cholesterol.
 
Tannith said:
Thank you. Good point. I personally don't take any such medications. Psyllium is not cheap but it is cheaper than, say ALA, which many on here take to lower blood sugar. I didn't actually start taking psyllium for blood sugar (I didn't know about that), but because my low carb diet has been giving me severe constipation. I then found that the psyllium worked wonderfully to stop me lying awake hungry at nights. If it also lowers cholesterol then that is an added bonus for me as I have the "10 year heart risk" thing, for which my GP has advised me to lower my cholesterol.
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how do you eat it , do you eat it right before going to sleep
 
I have a daily dose mixed into my low carb coconut ‘porridge’ for breakfast, works wonders for constipation which I’d suffered from when I started low carb eating. If it helps my glucose and cholesterol levels too then that’s a Bruce bonus!
 
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