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Plan: Muscle Centric
Stats: 238/153/160
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Progress: 109%
Location: UK
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Successfully Raising a Child with Diabetes on a Low Carb Diet
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Successfully Raising a Child with Diabetes on a Low Carb Diet: A Four Year Update
When I last interviewed Ekaterina Lochoshvili-Griffin, in 2014, her son Alexander was still honeymooning after his diagnosis with type 1 diabetes more than three years before. When we first talked, Alexander was using a little insulin—a ½ unit of short-acting insulin here or there along with a few units of Lantus—but he still had working beta cells, which would often bring his blood glucose down to normal range without outside help. Alexander mostly managed his condition by eating low carb and getting lots of exercise. Griffin lived in fear of the day when his honeymoon would end, and when he would become fully insulin dependent.
A lot has changed since we last spoke. Alexander is now insulin dependent, but contrary to Griffin’s fears, the change has gone smoothly. And Alexander’s example—the fact that he is growing and thriving while eating low carb—has helped inspire others to try the same thing for their children. One of those parents was RD Dikeman, a founder TypeOneGrit, a Facebook group where people support each other in eating very low carb in an effort to achieve normal blood glucose levels. Both Alexander and RD Dikeman’s son David were part of a study of 316 members of TypeOneGrit (131 of them children) that appeared in the May 2018 issue of Pediatrics. The study showed that respondents had a mean HbA1c of 5.67%, and that children were slightly above average on measures of growth—refuting a refrain that parents of T1D kids often hear, that children need to eat a significant amount of carbs to grow.
After the study came out, I checked back in with Ekaterina to see how Alexander is doing, and how things have evolved for him over the years, after his honeymoon waned.
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