Is Glucose the New Gluten? Inside the Blood-Sugar Health Craze
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Trying to manage your insulin based on the blips of your CGM is like trying to measure the volume of the ocean by measuring the height of the waves standing on the beach.
Lean and metabolically healthy people have stable blood glucose but stabilising your blood glucose will not make you lean and metabolically healthy. More about CGMs at: CGM Data Demystified: Your Path to Metabolic Health https://optimisingnutrition.com/con...nitor-cgm-data/ This article reflects why many people who have used Zoe or Levels end up at Optimising Nutrition. They read the Data Driven Fasting manual to understand What to do with all that CGM data! It is less confusing and way less expensive to use an OTC glucose monitor but unfortunately these new shiny toys appeal yet don’t come with a user manual. :) Quote:
Good articles All about Insulin at end of this guide: https://optimisingnutrition.com/ins...tes-management/ |
Without knowing how much insulin your pancreas is putting out, the glucose level doesn't mean much. You can have a good blood glucose level but your pancreas could be putting out a treemendous amout of insulin to keep the glucoes down. Eventually the pancreas will not be able to keep up and you are then diabetic. If the insulin level had been tracked then the diet could have been changed before the pancreas wore out.
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Agreed. Though, years ago, DH started his health journey with a blood glucose! meter. "Track each meal for a week. See what your body says." Those numbers are very persuasive. |
I call Balderdash!!
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That’s what it’s about. I say more power to the person who can make money off some “magic” solution to weight management--as long as the method isn’t actually harmful. In fact, that’s why I have extreme reservations about Ozempic et al. Nobody knows what the long-term consequences might be in the body--let alone the budget. I feel very lucky to have dodged a bullet since I took (at doctor’s suggestion) about three months of fen/phen decades ago. My heart, I’m grateful to say, is still ticking nicely. I know now that the tendency to accumulate fat has genetic factors, and in some cases, might even be considered a chronic “disease” in the tissue. Lifelong study and practice of nutrition for your own situation can’t be dodged with new meds, new meters, etc. without genuine knowledge and commitment. I’m thankful for watchful and knowledgeable friends right here! :wave: |
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So am I. I credit this forum for so many skills to counter disinformation :agree: Maybe this is why low carb/keto was called a fad and still is, but refuses to go away. Banting spread the word with his pamphlets. Now, we have people on social media raving about the amazing results of eating real food. And people can trust it. Because the only big money I know of that came from real food was the Swanson fortune, who figured out how to freeze it for the war effort. We do have better nutrition at a result. The other was modern broccoli, and that came with Bond movies! At the very least, people have to learn to stop paying food prices for dirt. |
When I saw this headline again, it ticked me off. They said keto was a "craze" and now it's part of cancer therapy.
Which they NEVER cover. Ever. You'd think they would be carrying on about it? They do about drugs and procedures. Isn't this a discovery? That bothers me a lot. We don't even know how many people have gluten sensitivity. It made a world of difference to me. It's not a "fad" to discover this was a huge problem, after all. |
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They'll cover those stories when they can figure out how to market keto as a therapeutic treatment. *Future crazy conspiracy theory alert* Imagine a time when everyone on the planet has been convinced to go completely plant based, with all carbs all the time, assured that humans don't need animal protein, or animal fats, just lots and lots of plants... No animal products at all sold in stores or restaurants. Only then will they start looking into some of these old studies that show LC and Keto can cure a plethora of illnesses: cancer, diabetes, auto-immune. But what to do, what to do - no one eats animal proteins or fats any more! You can't buy it in the stores! Marketing gurus know what to do though: Create UPFs which are made purely from animal fats and proteins, available only as a prescription from your Dr - marketed as the only medically approved food that causes remission of diabetes and cancer. In severe cases where the patients are so addicted to carbs that they can't stay away from them unless they have no access to them at all, they may be admitted to inpatient facilities where they will be allowed to eat only animal fats and proteins to eat. Visitors will be searched to make sure they're not bringing in any plant based foods. Animal fat and protein supplemental drugs may be available only by Dr's prescription for those who are suffering from various nutritional deficiencies. ("Ask your Doctor is Bovi-Chic-Por is right for you!") |
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Oh, sadly, it is not science fiction OR fantasy! It is exactly what they are trying to do, right here, right now. I just found a lost classic book, (still not on Kindle!), The Space Merchants. Where corporations put addictive substances in their products so people crave the ones from a particular brand. And we are "this" close. Because if sugar and grains weren't such an inseparable part of our culture, they would be scientifically classified as addictive substances. Which leads to the all too common reasons people freak out when I try to talk to them about diet. The thought that their tormenting cravings are being increased by Grandma's cookies is not something they can handle. The mere thought of "life without bread" borders on making them very upset. So I can't really talk to anyone until they are ready to talk. I'll just walk around town looking good (found a fashion video which explained elegance in a way I understood,) so I'm not just throwing on a sweatshirt anymore. If all I can be, from friends and relatives all the way to people I get my coffee from when I'm out, I feel an obligation to at least be a visible reminder of what's possible. I live in a small town and worked all over. They've already seen my before & after. :agree: |
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Is The Times catching up with the previous articles in January? There are quite a few articles on the Zoe website, https://zoe.com/blog but I’m not sure if the health study referred here used any new data. Zoe is also big into gut microbiome, and monitoring poop.
Lean and metabolically healthy people have stable blood glucose but stabilising your blood glucose will not make you lean and metabolically healthy. Simply switching carbs for fat to stabilise blood glucose is not necessarily optimal for people whose primary goal is to lose body fat, reverse their insulin resistance and improve their metabolic health. "Clothing your carbs in fat" is a hack, not the path to weight loss or metabolic health. I use a simple, inexpensive glucose monitor (only occasionally now) but still use the results to control hunger and lose weight. Check out the next DDF challenge that starts Saturday, April6 or try the app free on your own. https://optimisingnutrition.com/dat...ting-challenge/ More about CGMs at: CGM Data Demystified: Your Path to Metabolic Health https://optimisingnutrition.com/con...nitor-cgm-data/ |
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I guess this is their big point, yet it's so distorted and untrue. Since now we have people claiming they binge on meat now that they are on keto "so it didn't work" because that's not a normal response to food, either. And I also don't believe them as a former sufferer: there is no brainping! when we eat a steak. Great flavor and a sense of well-being and when I'm done, I'm done, even if there are two bites left on the plate. So if anyone are indeed binging on bacon and eggs, they have gone from metabolic derangement to the full version. |
Members of this very forum have been binging on Eggs and Bacon for years.
https://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=234866 Or doing Egg Fasts swimming in butter or the ever popular Fat Fast, ala Jimmy Moore. The newest version is now High Fat Carnivore. Twitter is back to eating sticks of butter :rolleyes: The idea that you can overeat calories and lose weight will never lose its appeal. ;) Back to this glucose article and why Insulin is the Cart, not the Horse, Ted Naiman explains on this podcast, minute 44 to 59. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podca...i=1000624625885 |
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