This highlights why diabetes mitigation can at the low to medium level be generalised, but for the individual perhaps should be tweaked. It is vital in my view to see if the conventional wisdom is applicable in the regime one chooses, as there is always a why. So my why is, on this hypothesis I should have had the worse numbers I have experienced in the last 4 years. I think I read that gluconeogenisis in the context of minimal carbs is short lived, and words to the effect not as impactful if all on total insulin secretion - in any event I have just tested on myself.
My results going mainly LCHF to LCHP over the last 4 or so months (some days totally carnivore, in visual terms maybe 2 massive salmon cuts in the morning, on coconut pancakes, around a whole plate of pork ribs or 2 ribeye steaks, at the end of this long ramble are examples between July 2018 and December 2018):
Within the last month
HbA1c: 35.52 (around 2 weeks ago)
Fasting Insulin: 5.2
HOMA IR: 0.97
HS-CRP: < 0.3
FBG average: 4.2 (my meter reads 0.1 higher than my surgery hospital synchronised professional unit)
When I check my PP it is circa 5.5 or below, and adhoc checks before bed around 4.9.
The HOMA IR result says I am not insulin resistant.
So I have managed my best ever results on an exorbitant amount of protein. Could it be because I weight train, or my protein only comes from whole quality foods, I don't know (don't care). I did my test to see the difference in lean muscle with more weights and to stress test my kidneys (high protein some say damages kidneys, mine were damaged by my initial high HbA1c, but pounding the protein moved eGFR from 63, to 62 - so no change). I have pulled back a bit now as I quite like low carb vegetables and dairy and have kept a mental note that at this time I can go higher protein.
I think in in the context of Type 1, it is interesting that the Type1Grit group promotes LCHP.
I follow the performance end of LCHF / HP via persons such as Dr Shawn Baker, Dr Ted Naimen and Siim Land,
Volek and Phinney. By coincidence I was watching the below this morning where Phinney was happy to promote 1.5 grams of protein per kilo of lean body mass (the same as Ben Bikman on the HPO podcast recently (episode 64). He said they go to a max of 2.0 grams. Some are happy to go up to 4 grams.
Various High Protein Meals consumed at home and Out:
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Having worked in the schools, the days it snows they love to be outside. Best of all, are "snow days" where the school buses are cancelled and best of all, when the school itself is closed due to snow. The radio stations do "cancellation reports" here for this reason. They are very rare here in Toronto, they only happen the occasional winter. "Snow days" are more common up north and/or in rural areas. Kids will talk about them years later.
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