A1C test results in for Oct/Nov/Dec

[Paolo]

5.3, which is an average of 102.8 mg/dl.

Down from 5.4 for Jul/Aug/Sep test.

105 is right down the middle of the normal range.

Low testosterone has been cited as a factor in T2 diabetes for males. However, T2 can also result in lower testosterone levels. It's like the chicken and the egg. In MY case, testosterone was low WAY before the onset of T2. Also, my main contributors were poor diet and being overweight.

My last readings were pulse-84, BP 119/78, weight 149 (AM-empty, soaking wet). I don't do the cholesterol thing, as I feel it is a fraud created to sell placebo drugs. I ate 6 eggs last night and a very fat pork chop for dinner.

I have been following a more carb-restricted diet, along the lines of the primal idea - if you could find it naturally in your area, eat it. The primal idea suggests that based on your ethnicity (in my case, Caucasian European, UK-German geographical area) you should only eat things that your ancestors would have been able to hunt/gather. My only deviation from this is a touch of Splenda now and then, and tea/coffee. Tea is a leaf, coffee is a seed. They don't spike blood sugar.

For instance, a Polynesian should be eating fish and tropical fruits.

A Yup'ik Alaskan should NOT be eating tropical fruits; he should be sticking to seal, moose, berries, etc. See the trend?

So far, results have been good. I was back to 155 lbs., and that's now gone again.

[mrt (imported)]

My wife and I were doing a similar sort of diet because it made sense to eat whats natural to us as humans but... It dawned on me that our ancestors lived to be about what? 29 before they died? My thinking is that this diet wasn't what was "best" so much as what was easiest to grab hold of. *I think.

I know I ought to shut up because I don't know what I'm talking about at all here! :-\ I don't have answers for what is best but I found that cutting down on bread and meat (A bit) helped me loose a LOT of weight. Nuts, salads, beans etc a bit more and large slabs of red meat on toasted white bread not so much.

[speedvogel (imported)]

5.3, which is an average of 102.8 mg/dl.

Down from 5.4 for Jul/Aug/Sep test.

105 is right down the middle of the normal range.

Low testosterone has been cited as a factor in T2 diabetes for males. However, T2 can also result in lower testosterone levels. It's like the chicken and the egg. In MY case, testosterone was low WAY before the onset of T2. Also, my main contributors were poor diet and being overweight.

My last readings were pulse-84, BP 119/78, weight 149 (AM-empty, soaking wet). I don't do the cholesterol thing, as I feel it is a fraud created to sell placebo drugs. I ate 6 eggs last night and a very fat pork chop for dinner.

I have been following a more carb-restricted diet, along the lines of the primal idea - if you could find it naturally in your area, eat it. The primal idea suggests that based on your ethnicity (in my case, Caucasian European, UK-German geographical area) you should only eat things that your ancestors would have been able to hunt/gather. My only deviation from this is a touch of Splenda now and then, and tea/coffee. Tea is a leaf, coffee is a seed. They don't spike blood sugar.

For instance, a Polynesian should be eating fish and tropical fruits.

A Yup'ik Alaskan should NOT be eating tropical fruits; he should be sticking to seal, moose, berries, etc. See the trend?

So far, results have been good. I was back to 155 lbs., and that's now gone again.

a1C levels in the range of yours are to be commended. This indicates that you are paying attention and managing your diabetes rather than letting it run and ruin your life. I can keep my a1C at 6 or below without much effort and I am doing well at this level. We have two Type 1 daughters and I am an insulin dependent Type 2 who also uses a pump. We all work at controlling our disease each and every day. I can tell you do too!

Yes, testosterone and diabetes, especially Type 2, are so deeply interwoven that this is an area that deserves much more study than it has received. I imagine you share my frustration with this hormonal oddity.

Congratulations!

Speed:D

[Paolo]

Just keep in mind, even with insulin dependency, less carb intake = less insulin needed, and the lessening of risk of lows and spikes.

One other thing to be checked for - gluten sensitivity. I've found that since I've begun avoiding grains, my #'s are dropping even better and I feel better.

[gandalf (imported)]

My wife and I were doing a similar sort of diet because it made sense to eat whats natural to us as humans but... It dawned on me that our ancestors lived to be about what? 29 before they died? My thinking is that this diet wasn't what was "best" so much as what was easiest to grab hold of. *I think.

I know I ought to shut up because I don't know what I'm talking about at all here! :-\ I don't have answers for what is best but I found that cutting down on bread and meat (A bit) helped me loose a LOT of weight. Nuts, salads, beans etc a bit more and large slabs of red meat on toasted white bread not so much.

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Y'know, I never thought of it that way. I guess it's a good thing I am not a big meat eater.

[moi621 (imported)]

Great article in Science magazine

11, December 2009 page 1478

Compares the Paleolithic Diet to the Modern Diet.

I always thought the modern diet would effect less resistant people the same, with type 2 Diabetes.

Apparently, the shift to the modern diet effects different peoples differently. But, the common cure is the Paleolithic Diet that makes Atkins look like a surgery cake walk.

There is no one good link for the paleolithic diet.

So interested readers are encouraged to search on there own.

The Paleolithic diet is also remarkably similar to the Jocelyn Clinic diet for diabetes in the days before Insulin was available.

Best Wishes on continued good control of those blood sugars.

Moi

[Paolo]

The Paleolithic diet is also remarkably similar to the Jocelyn Clinic diet for diabetes in the days before Insulin was available.

Bingo.

And thank you!

[JesusA (imported)]

Paolo,

Those are great numbers! I'm still working on mine, though your advice has pulled mine into much better territory. I know how hard you've worked on both diet and exercise to manage your diabetes completely without insulin.

The article in Science is a very nice one and I'm pleased to learn of the Jocelyn Clinic diet, which I'll now need to look up.

J.

[moi621 (imported)]

Paolo,

Those are great numbers! I'm still working on mine, though your advice has pulled mine into much better territory. I know how hard you've worked on both diet and exercise to manage your diabetes completely without insulin.

The article in Science is a very nice one and I'm pleased to learn of the Jocelyn Clinic diet, which I'll now need to look up.

J.

Jocelyn Clinic Diet, Atkins, Paleolithic Diet, it is all the same diet.

Avoid foods you could not have consumed in 10,000 BCE.

Of course 100% adherence is about, impossible, so become aware of the carbohydrates eaten and the glycemic index of that food. Save the cheating for chocolate or some treat rather then waste carbs on bread, even brown bread, or juice, even home made juice. And avoid treats on an empty stomach so as to improve the treat's glycemic index. The chocolate desert will absorb slower then a chocolate snack.

Consider, how many apples can you eat?

How many apples can you drink?

G'luck

Moi

10,000BCE no juice, flour, Special K cereal, crunchy granola, etc.

[Paolo]

There are very few fruits I will eat.

Cherries are allegedly a "lower carb" fruit, but not for me. I can only eat 1 baseball-size apple at once. Berries are pretty safe for not spiking my sugar levels.

Melons are a crapshoot. I tend to avoid them, and citrus, other than lemons.

Only rarely do I eat anything with flour involved.

I've laid off anything to do with grains since around Christmas, and I've only had one 'meltdown' since.

It's not easy getting it through to some people with blood sugar problems that they need to learn what carbs are and how to limit them in all forms, even 'good' ones.