If you have diabetes: NO low blood sugars!
Wheat elimination starts you powerfully on the path to reversing diabetes. We’ve seen it many times and it continues to develop in people who kiss their bagels, pretzels, and processed foods booby-trapped with wheat goodbye.
But, as diabetics become less diabetic–a process that can occur VERY quickly, often within days of removing all wheat products from their diet–but they are taking insulin or certain diabetes drugs, there is potential for hypoglycemia or low blood sugar. Low blood sugar from diabetes drugs can be dangerous and should be avoided at all costs. (Imagine if a non-diabetic started administ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - March 28, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle blood sugar diabetes gluten grains hypoglycemia Source Type: blogs
How NOT to have diabetes
If you want type 2 diabetes , follow conventional advice to cut fat and eat more “healthy whole grains.” (This is also true for type 1 diabetes in susceptible individuals with pancreatic beta cell autoimmunity triggered by wheat gliadin or corn zein.)
But what if you don’t want to follow the footsteps of the two thirds of Americans and Canadians who are now diabetic or pre-diabetic? What if you don’t want the expense and side-effects of oral drugs and insulin–one of the most powerful weight gain drugs around? What if you don’t want to lose your eyesight, develop cardiovascular disease, ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - January 8, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle blood sugar bowel flora diabetes gluten-free low-carb resistant starch vitamin D Source Type: blogs
Blood Sugar: Tool at Your Fingertips
Here is an excerpt from Wheat Belly Total Health that discusses how to use a glucose meter to accelerate weight loss. The same strategy can be used to reverse type 2 diabetes as much as possible in as short a time as possible. (Taken from Chapter 7: Grainless Living Day-to-Day.)
A blood sugar meter used pre- and post-meal can be a very powerful tool for weight loss and the reversal of metabolic distortions like high blood sugar. But you have to know how to apply the information.
Many people are frightened at the prospect of getting their blood checked for anything, and are particularly frightened by the prospect of checkin...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - October 20, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle blood sugar diabetes fingerstick glucometer glucose insulin Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Generics Versus Brand-Name Drugs
By David Spero
Are generic drugs as good as their brand-name rivals? Hopefully yes, as millions of people rely on generics to make medicines affordable. Is the claimed superiority of brand-name drugs just advertising, or is there a real difference?
An awful lot of people with diabetes are taking generic drugs. Most people take metformin, not Glucophage. (Generic names usually don't have a capital letter, while brand names typically are capitalized.) Many take glipizide, a generic sulfonylurea drug, while few take Glucotrol, its brand-name version. Are there any differences in effectiveness?
Under federal law, generic dru...
Source: Diabetes Self-Management - September 4, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: David Spero Source Type: blogs
Severe Lows Occur Often in People With Type 2
This study suggests that we should pay much closer attention to hypoglycemia, even in poorly controlled patients. Providers should explain the symptoms of hypoglycemia, how to treat it, and how to avoid it — for example, by not skipping meals. Most of all, providers should ask all their diabetic patients whether they've experienced hypoglycemia, even those patients with very high average levels of blood sugar."
The researchers also recommended that evaluations of the quality of diabetes care take into account side effects such as hypoglycemia that are associated with treatment. "While aggressive treatment of high b...
Source: Diabetes Self-Management - August 2, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Diane Fennell Source Type: blogs
Zero tolerance for hypoglycemia
Wheat elimination starts you powerfully on the path to reversing diabetes. We’ve seen it many times and it continues to develop in people who kiss their bagels, pretzels, and processed foods booby-trapped with wheat goodbye.
But, as diabetics become less diabetic–a process that can occur VERY quickly, often within days of removing all wheat products from their diet–but they are taking insulin or certain diabetes drugs, there is potential for hypoglycemia or low blood sugar. Low blood sugar from diabetes drugs can be dangerous and should be avoided at all costs. (Imagine if a non-diabetic started administ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - July 20, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Diabetes Source Type: blogs
Healing the Overwhelmed Physician - by Jerry Avorn
BOSTON — DURING an 1817 visit to Florence, the French author Marie-Henri Beyle, known by the pen name Stendhal, was seized by palpitations, dizziness and a feeling of being overwhelmed by the abundance of great art surrounding him; an Italian psychiatrist later coined the term Stendhal syndrome to describe this phenomenon.
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We physicians are susceptible to a kind of medical Stendhal syndrome as we confront the volumino...
Source: PharmaGossip - June 12, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
Did Type 2 Diabetes Have Anything to Do With Taking My Father Away?
By Jan Chait
Dad and my little brother were watching John Wayne movies one day last week when Dad gave a big sigh and, as quietly as that, passed over to a world where he could once again walk through his beloved woods, read the books he liked, and hold cogent conversations.
His Type 2 diabetes hadn't been playing nice with him lately. Did that have anything to do with his death? Was it his age? He was 89, but my family tends to be long-lived: His mother was 96. The fact that he had normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH), which can affect gait, continence, and memory? How about the carotid arteries in his neck, which were nar...
Source: Diabetes Self-Management - April 30, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Jan Chait Source Type: blogs
New to Diabetes: What's Next? (Part 2)
By Amy Campbell
There's a lot to juggle when you have diabetes, and at times, you may feel as if you're in a circus. Between balancing eating, physical activity, medication, and appointments (not to mention all of the other things that you need to do every day), it's not surprising that many people tune out and throw up their hands. "It's too hard to have diabetes," they say.
Yes, it can be hard. But remember that you have tools available to you to let you know how you're doing. It's much like the dashboard in your car. Little lights come on when there's a problem or something that needs your attention. Gauges tell you wh...
Source: Diabetes Self-Management - January 14, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Amy Campbell Source Type: blogs
