Category: How To

March 2010 Glucose Tolerance Test

This entry is part 5 of 6 in the series My 2-Hour Glucose Tolerance Tests

This entry is part 5 of 6 in the series My 2-Hour Glucose Tolerance TestsI 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…

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

This entry is part 3 of 6 in the series My 2-Hour Glucose Tolerance Tests

This entry is part 3 of 6 in the series My 2-Hour Glucose Tolerance TestsI 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,…

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…

Nutrition Think Tank – Lab Results and Report

Here is a before- and after- summary of the lab data for the 2004 Nutrition Think Tank, which was led by Dr. Ron Rosedale.  Labs tests were generously donated by Esoterix Lab (now Nichols Lab, I think), and included a standard cholesterol panel plus more in-depth tests, such as for the hormones leptin and insulin. …