Good luck with your personal experiments, @GlennWm. Be aware, if you reduce your total daily consumption of carb grams, you will need to reduce insulin doses, both bolus and basal, accordingly. Always be mindful of your safety and keep fast-acting glucose nearby. I also encourage you to check your blood glucose levels more frequently and start to keep a log. It will help you make good choices about what to do next.
I appreciate your input. I plan to continue to monitor my glucose, at least as much as I did before, probably more and I have maintain a food and glucose log since the beginning. Iâm type 2 and donât take any insulin. I know that type 2 is not thought of as being as serious as type 1. In fact since my diagnosis I have discovered I know a lot of people with type 2 diabetes. They arenât worried about it. I think they are making a huge mistake. I have found it to be very hard to find information about choices I could make.
I always have glucose tablets with me.
All one needs to do is look at the sobering statistics of T2D and cardio-vascular mortality rates as well as T2D and dialysis. I think you have the right idea. T2D needs sufficient respect. Denial is rampant in this cohort.
Since you donât take insulin, experimenting with a lower carb way of eating is relatively risk free. I would say to go for it. When I committed to it five years ago, I lost 25 pounds in about 90 days and I wasnât trying to lose weight, just simply regain control of my blood sugar levels.
I wish you luck!
Hi. This is actually not true. Carbs can typically be safely be brought as low as 20 - 30 g per day. There may be an adjustment period for some, referred to a keto flu (addressed by patience, and increasing electrolytes and fluids). Reference materials? Bernstein diabetes university on utube. His book diabetes solutions. Jason fung - obesity code (he also has lots of articles and seminars free online). Phinney & volek - the art and science of low carb living.
âThe brain needs a minimum amount of dietary carbohydrateâ is one of the traditional arguments advanced by the high-carb gurus to criticize low carb diets. There is not a shred of science behind it; itâs pure, 100% self serving dogma. It has been demonstrated beyond any question that the body can adjust quite nicely to a low carb diet. People have been eating low carb diets for over 150 years now, and we seem to be managing okay.
P.S. See Terryâs post, below.
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Essential fatty acids and essential amino acids (proteins) are described as essential as itâs not possible for life to continue without them and the body has no way to produce them itself.
There is, however, no such thing as essential carbohydrates.
Eric Westman writes in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition:
The currently established human essential nutrients are water, energy, amino acids (histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, and valine), essential fatty acids (linoleic and α-linolenic acids), vitamins (ascorbic acid, vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin E, vitamin K, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin B-6, pantothenic acid, folic acid, biotin, and vitamin B-12), minerals (calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, and iron), trace minerals (zinc, copper, manganese, iodine, selenium, molybdenum, and chromium), electrolytes (sodium, potassium, and chloride), and ultratrace minerals (4). (Note the absence of specific carbohydrates from this list.) [emphasis added]
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Thanks for all your reassurances. Thatâs all I needed. I was concerned about not having the experience of anyone else. I was sure there was someone else out there. I donât feel like as much of a pioneer now.
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