Mon, Mar-18-13, 11:17
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Senior Member
Posts: 214
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Plan: Basic LCHF
Stats: 250/180/180
BF:38%/14%/14%
Progress: 100%
Location: East Texas
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Originally Posted by mike_d
Not entirely true IMO, with LC + Fasting you can reverse IR and its resultant high blood sugar readings.
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I wonder if this is true in the way people would read it. Before I cleaned up my diet for maintenance, I could fail an OGTT at will, and my typical bG curve was much closer to a mild T2D than normal.
On LCHF, my b-cells have had time to "catch up", and with a very carefully designed intense exercise program I have a tolerable level of insulin sensitivity. Together, I get a bG curve that is vaguely normal. It is VERY artificial though. I stop the exercise, and go back on sugar, it won't be a week before I'm out of "juice" as it were.
So, I think its wrong to use the word "reverse". If it were reversed, I could stop exercising, eat a bucket of ice cream, and nothing interesting would happen. And that is NOT true, and there's nothing in journal literature to suggest that it ever will be true again for me.
But.... it is enough. I call it "control". I can keep exercising, and I can keep the LCHF diet plan, even if I fail to cravings from time to time; and I suspect as long as I do keep at it, I'll not have the doc explicitly say "D" to me. And that is a Good Thing (tm).
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