After getting an HbA1c reading of 66, I was advised by various medical professionals that I was now T2 diabetic. After losing a lot of weight, it is now at a near normal level. I now use a CGM to keep track of what raises my blood sugar (and reduce my consumption of it).
The most useful comment I've found on the subject is 'there is a lot of controversy about diabetic diet'.
Thank you for the article, it's great! I just had a question - is there a difference between eating the advanced glycation end products, and having them produced on your own tissues in you body? Wouldn't the digestive system break down the ones from food so they are not a worry, or do they somehow get incorporated into the body? Excuse my ignorance if there is an obvious answer to this!
Is there any guide out there for "how to fix insulin resistance"? or whatever first step it is that starts the process ending in the various types of pre diabetes and then actual diabetes?
This is so interesting, thank you. The whole glucose level thing has become a bit much hasn’t it? (I speak as a keen eater and a non-medic who has been quite into it all). I haven’t heard this particular podcast but I know her work. Can I ask, aside from AGEs, is there therefore no evidence for the other benefits she suggests of keeping glucose levels low and non-spiky (reduced inflammation etc)? Thanks.
I’ve said this lots of times in lots of places, but as a person who monitors their blood glucose out of necessity (and please don’t get me wrong - I love my CGM deeply - it changed my life and you’d have to pry it out of my cold dead hands etc etc) I find this stuff hard to forgive.
For people who have to, it’s obviously better than the alternative, but watching blood glucose levels every minute of every day is HARD work - it’s necessarily obsessive, it’s tiring and it 100% changes your relationship with food, activity and everything else.
It is not a thing I would wish on anyone - and to see people like the “glucose goddess” convincing people that it’s something they have to do is just horrible.
People doing this should be stopped - and they certainly shouldn’t be lauded, revered and given column space in national (international) newspapers. It is truly grim.
Ah wow, I was once obsessed with Jessie and everything she said. Obsessed with CGM and spikes just led me to a one way street with an eating disorder!
Everything you wrote, the world needs to read and share. Thanks so much.
Superb!
I absolutely love this, Doc!!! I was wondering how the whole glycation process worked. Everything you write is so awesome and valuable. I love you!
So helpful! Many thanks.
Brilliant! As you say, these folks always pepper their output with nuggets of truth, exhausting to counter all the pseudoscience 🙄
Invaluable... thank you!
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After getting an HbA1c reading of 66, I was advised by various medical professionals that I was now T2 diabetic. After losing a lot of weight, it is now at a near normal level. I now use a CGM to keep track of what raises my blood sugar (and reduce my consumption of it).
The most useful comment I've found on the subject is 'there is a lot of controversy about diabetic diet'.
Thank you for the article, it's great! I just had a question - is there a difference between eating the advanced glycation end products, and having them produced on your own tissues in you body? Wouldn't the digestive system break down the ones from food so they are not a worry, or do they somehow get incorporated into the body? Excuse my ignorance if there is an obvious answer to this!
thanks for the article!
Is there any guide out there for "how to fix insulin resistance"? or whatever first step it is that starts the process ending in the various types of pre diabetes and then actual diabetes?
Reading your blog is always time well spent.
This is so interesting, thank you. The whole glucose level thing has become a bit much hasn’t it? (I speak as a keen eater and a non-medic who has been quite into it all). I haven’t heard this particular podcast but I know her work. Can I ask, aside from AGEs, is there therefore no evidence for the other benefits she suggests of keeping glucose levels low and non-spiky (reduced inflammation etc)? Thanks.
Thank you for this!
I’ve said this lots of times in lots of places, but as a person who monitors their blood glucose out of necessity (and please don’t get me wrong - I love my CGM deeply - it changed my life and you’d have to pry it out of my cold dead hands etc etc) I find this stuff hard to forgive.
For people who have to, it’s obviously better than the alternative, but watching blood glucose levels every minute of every day is HARD work - it’s necessarily obsessive, it’s tiring and it 100% changes your relationship with food, activity and everything else.
It is not a thing I would wish on anyone - and to see people like the “glucose goddess” convincing people that it’s something they have to do is just horrible.
People doing this should be stopped - and they certainly shouldn’t be lauded, revered and given column space in national (international) newspapers. It is truly grim.