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<blockquote data-quote="LittleGreyCat" data-source="post: 1510082" data-attributes="member: 6467"><p><a href="http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Diabetes-type2/Pages/SteveRedgrave.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Diabetes-type2/Pages/SteveRedgrave.aspx</a></p><p></p><p>Fascinating reading, including the treatment decisions.</p><p></p><p>An elite athlete burning sugars for energy, he concluded with his doctor that he couldn't provide his energy requirements without the sugar so took one route of the newly diagnosed T2 and decided to maintain his diet and cover his sugars with insulin.</p><p></p><p>I would guess that his issue was unlikely to be insulin resistance, but instead low insulin production.</p><p></p><p>I have met others who have chosen to maintain diet and lifestyle and use insulin to maintain BG control.</p><p></p><p>I suspect Volek and Phinney would have leaped on him with glad cries and tried to turn him to the dark side of LCHF as used by many ultra endurance athletes. Perhaps, though, fat isn't the fuel for sprinters?</p><p></p><p>Anyway, interest piqued by the rationale behind his choice of diet and treatment. I hadn't even realised that he was T2, nor that he was only diagnosed after his 4th Olympic medal.</p><p></p><p>A fine example to illustrate that not all T2s are blubbery couch potatoes!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LittleGreyCat, post: 1510082, member: 6467"] [URL]http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Diabetes-type2/Pages/SteveRedgrave.aspx[/URL] Fascinating reading, including the treatment decisions. An elite athlete burning sugars for energy, he concluded with his doctor that he couldn't provide his energy requirements without the sugar so took one route of the newly diagnosed T2 and decided to maintain his diet and cover his sugars with insulin. I would guess that his issue was unlikely to be insulin resistance, but instead low insulin production. I have met others who have chosen to maintain diet and lifestyle and use insulin to maintain BG control. I suspect Volek and Phinney would have leaped on him with glad cries and tried to turn him to the dark side of LCHF as used by many ultra endurance athletes. Perhaps, though, fat isn't the fuel for sprinters? Anyway, interest piqued by the rationale behind his choice of diet and treatment. I hadn't even realised that he was T2, nor that he was only diagnosed after his 4th Olympic medal. A fine example to illustrate that not all T2s are blubbery couch potatoes! [/QUOTE]
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