I’m mildly diabetic, and my blood sugar was running 100-105 fasting. This morning it was 118 on the first reading and 121 on the second. To be sure, I’m cutting carbs to a minimum today and am going to check tomorrow morning.
An article on Google says my inhaler can elevate your sugar and affect sensitivity. I checked with my pulmonology nurse, and she said it can but I need to use my inhaler. We left it at that I’m going to check with my PCP to see if I should go back on diabetes meds.
I used to take Metformin XL, then later Glipizide XL, but I see my insurance doesn’t cover the extended release versions of these drugs anymore. It looks like they are really expensive now.
These numbers for fasting blood glucose if in the US units aren’t even considered diabetic by most physicians or the diabetes association, but some diabetologists know better and will agree with you and say that anything over 83 is pre/diabetic. Low carbing and/or regular metformin should be fine as well. was never prescribed the er version.
i was thinking about berberine and alpha-lipoic acid. there are some more ppar-gamma acting substances. one of them is fish oil, and most don’t get enough of it as it’s essential. meaning you have to get enough of epa and dha (by the way for mental health too).
I’m with you. I’m taking nine capsules a day of Magnesium as well as some healthy fats from Sunflower seeds. Although advanced in years, I appear to be younger than I am!
sunflower and other seed oils are not good for you, because they oxidize (go rancid) quickly and are new in our evolution, so our bodies don’t know what to do with them in large quantities. they’re also industrial. these are polyunsaturated mostly, if you look at the percentages of fatty acids in them.
saturated (yes, despite them being demonized), and monounsaturated like olive oil are fine.