Angela64
Well-Known Member
Gawd, I reduced mine from 134 - 43 in a few months, although crept up to 52 being more relaxed in diet.
Gawd, I reduced mine from 134 - 43 in a few months, although crept up to 52 being more relaxed in diet.Just to throw another spanner into the works in this fascinating thread (apologies Mods!) I was consumed yesterday in reading a paper giving evidence that those like me who are in our older years and have reduced A1c a great deal in a short time have thereby doubled our risk of dementia. Great! I don’t think Prof Taylor thought to do MRI on brains as well to monitor this. It’s all enough to make one crazy (well, look at me). I think I will now have my third tiny morsel of chocolate in two years and do a self-test with the Times crossword.
I reduced mine by going low carb, not sure why that worked SO rapidlyDo you have a link to the paper?
How had they reduced the HbA1c in a short time?
Drugs or some other method?
Because its the best and most effective long term way to bring it about..I reduced mine by going low carb, not sure why that worked SO rapidly
Its people like you that destroy a good hypothesis. Indeed, all the papers so far have reflected the way life used to be, *( Eatwell, insulin and sulfonyl medications) and not the recent movements that actually provide a nutritional approach to bgl control. I lie there, because one of the papers I read did use Low Carb intervention, but dismissed it from their analysis. I can believe that severe hypo's that require medical intervention may well cause neurological damage, and lead to dementia. But that is a treatment issue,not an HbA1c problem. I note that in one of the studies, they excluded T2D in nursing homes (the HK one) presumably because a caring regime might skew the resultsBut the inference from both papers is that the population they studied were T2s on medication - otherwise, how did they see hypos in the study groups? There was a correlation between high blood glucose and dementia, and a possible correlation between sudden decreases in blood glucose that they linked to hypos - nothing about people like me who have never taken any diabetic meds.
I suspect the damage is really from high and very low sugars. But my own unresearched hypothesis is that Statins have a big say in Alzheimers.
I do so miss bulkbiker anyone know if he is lurking anywhere else........Do you have a link to the paper?
How had they reduced the HbA1c in a short time?
Drugs or some other method?
Me too.I do so miss bulkbiker anyone know if he is lurking anywhere else........
Gosh that shocks me, he seemed so well informed.He has disappeared from the 'blue' forum too I don't know if he was banned there as well as here.
His Tweets are hardly ever about Diabetes these days, and are what I consider extreme.
Just found his pic on x he looks totally different from what I expected. Would be nice to have him back .....pleaseHe has disappeared from the 'blue' forum too I don't know if he was banned there as well as here.
His Tweets are hardly ever about Diabetes these days, and are what I consider extreme.
Well after looking at the posts from him elsewhere, I am not surprised!He was banned from here!
Probably from the blue forum as well, but don't know for sure!
Just found his pic on x he looks totally different from what I expected. Would be nice to have him back .....please
So maybe banning was the right decision after all.Well after looking at the posts from him elsewhere, I am not surprised!
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