Hello everyone,
It's been exactly three years since I achieved and maintained my remission from Type 2 Diabetes (T2D), regularly recording my Hba1c in the low fives, from just six months after my initial T2D diagnosis.
Currently there is no sign of my remission status falling over anytime soon.
I've found that the overwhelming consensus in the on-line medical research world is that people who are living with T2D, have developed a basic intolerance to Carbohydrates and Sugars in their diet, perhaps after a long period of poor (perhaps unknowing) dietary choices during their lifetime.
Remission, or any improvement in a persons T2D condition appears highly dependent upon severely restricting carbohydrates, sugars and processed chemical laden foods from the persons current diet.
Typically, the Standard Australian Dietary (SAD) guidelines would have a person living with T2D consuming up to six meals a day and digesting 300 grams of carbohydrate and sugars, whereas to get my T2D into remission, my carbs and sugars were restricted to 30 grams per day, over two meals a day.
People following the SAD guidelines, as promoted by most Australian accredited dieticians (supposedly, one size fits all), have very little chance of improving their diabetic condition, and absolutely no chance of achieving remission from this disease, and so they are effectively placed into a long term medicated palliative care arrangement.
During my initial research all those years ago, I found a YouTube channel run by Dennis Pollock, called Beat Diabetes.
Dennis has written three books on how to control T2D by severely restricting carbs and sugars in your diet as well as practicing time restricted eating (fasting).
This is basically how I achieved and maintained my remission status.
The trick is to find those foods that are enjoyable to eat (and easy to maintain eating), and that do not spike your blood glucose levels (BGLs) one to two hours after eating them.
After every new meal type, I use a blood glucose meter to measure and identify any unacceptable elevation in my BGLs.
If the new food type spikes my BGLs, then that food is immediately placed on the banned list, and if it does not spike my BGLs, I know it will be safe to eat that food again in the future.
Over a short period of time I was able to compile a personal (because everyone is a little different) BGL Meter Approved list of foods that are entirely suitable for me to consume regularly.
These chosen foods and recipes are safe, enjoyable and nutritious, but don't always align to other particular generic ways of eating in their entirety. For example, my food list is not totally Keto, Mediterranean, Pritikin, Vegan or Vegetarian, etc. It's a mixture of all of these.
Strictly following this food choice strategy, and ignoring the SAD guidelines, has helped me to successfully achieve and maintained my remission from T2D.
Many other people living with T2D, and implementing this simple food choice strategy have also managed to eliminate or reduce the need for harmful diabetic medications, and to improve a lot of other personal holistic health markers in our older age."
For example, since remission, my blood pressure has returned to well within normal levels, my cardio issues have recovered, my early onset arthritis inflammation is gone, energy levels have increased markedly, my cholesterol ratios have improved, and my triglyceride levels reduced to the beneficial lower ranges. All good stuff.
But I remain very frustrated to see so many people still physically suffering from T2D issues, when I know that if they were encouraged to follow this simple food choice method, they could easily achieve remission very quickly, just like I did, as well as ditch all of their harmful T2D drugs and insulin so freely dished out by our GPs.
On the positive side, in Australia, we have many groups and organisations working and growing to educate and reverse the consistently increasing number of T2D cases being diagnosed every day.
Such as;
CSIRO - Total well being Diet program
Defeat Diabetes
Low Carb Down-under - Includes a list of Low Carb friendly GPs and Dieticians located around Australia
Ditch the Carbs (NZ)
Low Carb Healthy Fats - Facebook group
Cheers,
Greg
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