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What was your fasting blood glucose? (full on chat)

Really interesting article @ianpspurs. Especially interesting was the suggestion that the treatment for T2D might possibly be the cause of some of the bad outcomes of T2D for some of us.

So many people inject insulin and it keeps them healthy and it prevents the bad outcomes. Unfortunately I wasn't one of those people.

Although insulin controlled my blood sugars I began to suffer from neuropathy that was moving into the danger zone. Coming off insulin and going low carb very quickly reversed the neuropathy - which has always puzzled me. Just goes to prove that 'one size does not fit all'.
 
Thank you @gennepher - first chance to try out the new resist fluid - I think I should have used a finer brush.
Ah...so that is how you got those white marks...I was thinking perhaps you had used cartridge paper, then scraped it @dunelm
I have some of this resist, but it was one of my many purchases during lockdowns, when I was sort of collecting stuff from Amazon....but never got round to using..it is unopened so should still be okay...
 
I got this drawing gum by pebeo, it’s a blue colour so you can easily see where you have put it and is very easy to remove.
 

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Thank you for that. I've started reading it and will spend some time working out practical applications e.g. what, if anything, can/can’t I eat based on the potential benefits or because my gag reflex will go into overdrive. As for the heated throw, @JohnEGreen, I am going to use one of MIL's stock of rollators (with seat) so that if my legs randomly go numb I can sit - they soon recover. She also has at least two mobility scooters the better one we will store for if/when the time comes.
 
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Good idea hope the rollator has a parking brake mine didn’t so was a bit difficult on a slope rollator didn’t work out for me so have purchased a self propel wheel chair rollator went to local charity shop they ware glad to have it.
 
Thank you @dunelm. A very interesting article.
 
Well you did a good job and you didn’t get annoyed. Enjoy the beach view jigsaw. Here is a photo of a red sunset with rainbow taken at 1600 yesterday by a local photographer to give you a bit of colour.

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get similar sunsets from our back garden to the west, thanks!
Lovely.
 
You might take a look at some of the reference material - ref 69 and 77 maybe - if you view using Google scholar link then you need to grab the PDF file.
Note: why do I feel as though I’m back at work
 
Good idea hope the rollator has a parking brake mine didn’t so was a bit difficult on a slope rollator didn’t work out for me so have purchased a self propel wheel chair rollator went to local charity shop they ware glad to have it.
Shame you didn't get on with yours. It does have brakes attached to underside of the handles and it has lights. I'll need to do some training walks to extend distance as I was able to walk so much faster but don't know my range at that speed anymore. Next test is on grass/forest pine bed surface which has been the easiest for a while. Obviously useless for some surfaces e.g. sand, rutted/boggy ground and thick gravel. @dunelm thanks - you're my favourite lecturer at DCUK Uni
 
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Thank you Ian, we tried to do our best for them, however they were well motivated and had good friends.
 
It has been disclosed that Rwandan citizens have been granted asylum in the U.K.!
The reason is because the home office officials have been advised that the Rwandans home country is not safe for them to return.
You just couldn't make this up!
 
Oh, a promotion at last! Reader in blood sugars! All the best with the crash test dummy role.
 
Very interesting I was once on a site run by a very clever guy who was into citizen science.
He could change all his factors at will by eating different things or not eating.
Certainly all oils and what was in them was discussed and their harmfulness.
A few things, A few months ago I dropped butter and took olive oil instead. LDL dropped circa 1 click. 20%.
I went low carb and my HDL went up and my trigs dropped below 1. Some years ago.

I was really happy I would not ruin It with statins, their a farce, they calcify your arteries like Warfarin turns the stuff in your arteries into pipes of calcium.
Your greens have to go to get your INR up, they are a vitamin K antagonist like warfarin . So it was: stop taking your greens, but I would have my eyes suffer.
Regard the mix of oils: for the inuit their diet really containe a lot of omega3.
Whale blubber, seals, fish, even polar bears and geese in the summer had a lot in their fat


But. If you eat farm fed geese their full of omega 6 cos you have pumped that grain and omega 6 into them to them to fatten up.

If you eat beef from.a fattening lot, fed on grain, bingo you've done the same, you will soon have a full house and metabolic syndrome, so we are knackering our health in the cause of a swift buck for some.
Enough said, preaching over.





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It has been disclosed that Rwandan citizens have been granted asylum in the U.K.!
The reason is because the home office officials have been advised that the Rwandans home country is not safe for them to return.
You just couldn't make this up!
Of course it's not
One tribe cut their neighbours of another tribe to pieces a few decades ago.Its not rocket science.Its not good in black Africa.
 
Interesting that you dropped butter which has the allegedly perfect 2:1 ratio of omega 6:3 whereas olive oil is 10:1. Inuit diet was about 1:4 - lots of omega-3 - but that is changing and some are now getting diabetes. These fatty acids do it seems need ‘tuning’ for individuals and with your LDL/HDL changes it seems that your change to olive oil is working well for you. Some recent researches are thinking that due to modern diets that 1:1 might be a good way forward.
 
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Of course it's not
One tribe cut their neighbours of another tribe to pieces a few decades ago.Its not rocket science.Its not good in black Africa.
But, aren't our government always right?
And they are making a law saying so! It's safe!
And black is white!
And your aunty is your uncle!
as long as someone is making money.
 
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