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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AloeSvea" data-source="post: 2616798" data-attributes="member: 150927">Hi [USER=539322]@mh234[/USER]. I don't think I really understand your emotional and thought process regarding fasting (and wanting to have diabetes, back in 2011) -. but that doesn't matter whether I understand it or not! It's great that you are sharing. When you ask if there are any cognitive disabilities, re coping, do you mean when fasting?I have experimented extensively with fasting, as it is particularly good for my type of type two - which is severe insulin resistance based. So any time I can give my pancreas and beta cells a break from churning out massive amounts of insulin the better, is the way I see it. I have to fast for some days for my blood glucose to lower to a nice healthier level. I don't do that any more, but choose to do a long term intermittent fasting regime, for maintenance, rather than anything else.I would say, personally, that  intermittent fasting does not affect my cognitive abilities - not at all. But all kinds of fasting does mean, for me, that I have to deal with the hunger. People are very different with this, (hunger is mediated with hormones, and these levels can differ a lot between individuals/families, is my understanding). But I have always been very up front in this Forum about the fact that feelings of hunger does not go away for me, even with a drug that operates as an appetite suppressant (which metformin does for me) (and think of the enormous popularity of ozempic, which also operates as an appetite suppressant.). Does dealing with hunger affect how I am at the time? Oh yes. Thoughts and feelings - oh yes. But my ability to think? As long as I am thinking about food, I would say! on no-food fasts. But my energy levels plummet on day 2 or 3, so I would not be doing much of anything, let alone thinking analytically. Which is why I don't do longer term fasting anymore. I'm getting older!</blockquote>

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