Posted on 02/28/2018 12:22:07 PM PST by nickcarraway
Right. Like I said, the weight loss part of the article is bunk IMO. People can develop insulin resistance without being overweight. It’s not as common because people who are chronic carb addicts are usually going to get overweight as a result, but the two things are not causal of each other, they are both a byproduct or symptom.
The answer for those types of diabetics seems to be not so much that they would have had to lose their weight, but that they had different dietary habits in their lives. Perhaps intensity of insulin spikes but more-so the frequency and consistency of them over time is the problem. I’m going to go on a limb and suggest that diabetes was very rare in hunter-gatherer societies, even among those who managed to reach advanced years.
It helps Type 1, too. Obviously, it won’t cure it, but without carbs, it’s much easier to control your blood sugar. I’m Type 1 and started keto 3 months ago. A1C dropped from 7.4 to 5.4. Completely eliminated my quick-acting insulin and have cut my basal insulin by over a third. I wasn’t really overweight, but I’ve lost almost 15 pounds. I need to lose maybe 5 more and then might have to eat more to keep from losing any more weight.
Yep, I read that book, twice, I think. I’ve been fasting periodically for decades now, as it has been the only effective means for me to control weight...hunger level is only light when fasting, as opposed to dieting (eating light), where it is much worse.
But when I do eat, I eat ANYTHING, just like a college student - blasting the crap out of my body. Always wondered why my glucose was perfectly normal, when Type 2 runs all through my family. The book gave me the answer. Pretty cool.
Is there a way to measure your keto-whatever at home? Is this like the low carb diets that have been around for years?
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Keto reduces glucose levels significantly
Modest protein. You should have roughly half your body weight in grams for protein with all the rest fat and very small carb besides fiber
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ME too.
I am 72 and my son recently lost a bunch of weight using Keto and a little fasting. He was not diabetic, but I am. I have been on Metformin (no insulin, but with progression I am sure that was coming.) I started the keto diet by simply cutting all carbs. I noticed that if you say no carbs while eating out, most places know exactly how to modify what they serve. (Bay Area). So it is easy, since I started — OK, I took a break during the holidays— but in all I have lost 40 pounds from my high and also see glucose on my tester at around 110 most mornings. (It does go as high as 146 if I have something bad the day before— recently having a hot cup of milk at bedtime has been the culprit. At any rate I see my physician next week and expect him to be surprised by my new blood numbers — No, I do not know what they are yet but I expect to continue on Metformin and keep losing weigh for another 20 pounds. We will see what has to be done to stay there, but I expect that periodic “vacations” from keto will reset the weight lost system and fasting — which I don’t normally do may also be part of the solution to not climbing back up the scale.
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which meal?
It absolutely works but it is a very hard diet to stick with because no matter how many KETO recipes I see on YouTube they all taste like cr@p.
The simplest way is to eat nothing white except crème. But it gets old no matter who you are.
It did for me... My A1C went from 7.4 to 6.1 three years ago and has stayed there. I also lost 40 pounds in the process. It also fixed my high cholesterol, and lowered my BP. I have been off diabetes as well as statin drugs for three years now.
Art Buchwald said Diet was the adverb form of To Die.
A big part of the problem is that Carbohydrates are the cheapest foods. Beans, rice, potatoes and bread(not so cheap anymore).
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