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Type 2 Risk of complications?

Just to add not all t2's are Insulin resistant, Insulin insensitive or over producers, some like myself are non-producers and very sensitive to insulin.......
 
Just to add not all t2's are Insulin resistant, Insulin insensitive or over producers, some like myself are non-producers and very sensitive to insulin.......
We're all so different. I know. I just assume that I'm very IR, and wondering if that's yet another risk in itself.
 

Just read this and though to add that what you experienced was likely a temporary insulin resistence. Eg you gave you body a surprise amount of carbs it was not used to at that time of day. It is likely that if you had 12 g of carbs every morning you body would not have reacted so badly.

This article explains it better than I can

https://optimisingnutrition.com/2015/06/08/physiological-insulin-resistance-and-coffee-addiction/
 
Hi @briped
I heartily recommend these videos of lectures by Ivor Cummins.
He addresses all your questions, I believe, linking insulin resistance to many chronic conditions - most of which affect people with diabetes more than non-diabetics (types 1, 2 and possibly other types).



 

Thanks. Very interesting! That could well be the case, but I haven't dared experiment further, and won't be doing so in the foreseeable future. Good to know, though.
 

Thanks Brunneria. I will look forward to watching those Nothing like Youtube. Unfortunately I missed Jason Fung's Obesity code (audio book). It looks as if it was removed.
 
That isn't quite true. T1s inject insulin, so there is insulin floating about, and some T1s play a bit of Russian Roulette with the amounts they inject.
If a type 1 injects too much insulin, their BG gets low and they experience a hypo which has other immediate problems. They are unlikely to experience "insulin floating about".
 
That's an interesting theory.
However people with type 1 are at risk of complications but we have no insulin floating around our blood stream
Hi @helensaramay, as someone with an interest in this but not as professional opinion or advice:
but as a T1D one could inject insulin to excess, put on weight and develop some insulin resistance that way.
It may be that insulin resistance as part of the 'metabolic syndrome' increases risk of some complications such as cardiovascular disease (CVD)? But HBA1Cs > 8 % in either T1Ds or T2Ds increase the risk of CVD. (htpps://bmjopen.bmj,com/7/7/e015949).
Both macrovascular (e.g. heart attacks stroke) and microvascular (e.g. eye, kidney, nerve) complications of diabetes develop in both T1Ds and T2Ds see introductory para ) clevelandclinicmeded.com Diabetes Mellitus: Management of Macrovascular and Microvascular Complications 2016 Zimmernman.
 
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