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Net Carb vs Blood Sugars – The Quest Protein Bar Test
PART 1 on YOUTUBE: PART 2 on YOUTUBE: If you can’t view YouTube or if you want to download these videos, then . . . SEE PART 1 – Net Carb Test — Part 1 (3 1/2 Minutes) SEE PART 2 - Net Carb Test — Part 2 (4 1/2 Minutes) SEE DATA [...]
Net Carbs vs Fiber Carbs – Jeff vs 1 net Carb Bread
Listen to Jeff (3 minutes) Transcript of Jeff’s Account of How his Blood Sugars Reacted to a 1 Net Carb Bread. “My name is Jeff Roaderick. I’m 46 years old, and I have Type 1 diabetes, diagnosed in 1993, so about 18 years. You know, I’m always looking for lower carb items to eat. Julian [...]
Ron Rosedale – The Toast Test
LISTEN (4 minutes) Ron Rosedale A long time ago, maybe 15 years ago, when I was in Asheville, North Carolina, before leptin was discovered, I was doing a lot of research on my patients about insulin, to see what lowered it, what raised it. I remember one boy who came in, brought in by really [...]
Steve Phinney and Richard Johnson: Ketones, Uric Acid, High Fat and Health
STEVE PHINNEY – “When I’m asked how long ketoadaptation takes, I generally respond that some aspects of it take 6 weeks or more.” RICK JOHNSON “Low carb diets (might be improving) insulin resistance in part because of reduction of dietary glucose that reduces endogenous (body-manufactured) fructose.
Quest Diagnostics looks at Proteomics
Here is a long-format interview with Nick Conti Vice President, Business Development at Quest Diagnostics, about Proteomics Quest Proteomics Draft Edit 2012
March 2010 Glucose Tolerance Test
I passed my March 2010 2-hour glucose tolerance test. This is better than how I did in 2005, when I failed two glucose tolerance tests in a row. However, I did not pass as successfully in March 2010 as I did in 2009.
Reversing Type 1 Diabetes with Diet – Another Case Study
It’s supposed to be impossible to reverse Type 1 diabetes, which is a form of diabetes where the Beta cells in the pancreas, which produce insulin, are basically stressed to death or at least, into paralysis. All this means a Type 1 diabetic loses the ability to produce life-giving insulin. A Type 1 diabetic must [...]
January 2009 Glucose Tolerance Test
I passed the 2-hour glucose tolerance test I took in January 2009. That’s over 4 years since I first failed a glucose tolerance test and was told my pancreas would be very, very, very, very unlikely to ever recover more function, and instead would be more likely to fail, since it was already stressed. In [...]
A Diet for Reducing Cancer Treatment Side Effects
Cancer cells crave sugar and don’t do well at burning fats. So it makes sense that reducing the sugar that’s available to cancer cells might slow them down, while at the same time, improve energy for a person undergoing cancer treatments. It’s not an approach you’ll hear much about in the United States, but this [...]
A “Low Carb” Menu Plan Disaster – from a Diabetes Health Educator
My blood sugars went up near 170 the one time I ate a “low carb” meal recommended by an American Diabetes Association, acclaimed diabetes educator.