I will always miss my mangoes, cherries, peaches, nectarines etc. However, I am glad that I have a memory of what they taste like but also the knowledge to know that they are very high in sugar an therefore no good for me. I did have some kiwi fruit recently and really enjoyed them. The surprising thing was that even though I bought a tray of five I only wanted to eat one each day, whereas before I would have eaten at least two.
I'm praying that you have good doctors, and as fast a recovery as possible. Keep studying so you know all your options that will assist you along the way. Plain old reading and studying can bring knowledge that helps you through the process of recovery. Are you stocked up on vitamin C so you can take 1,000 mg with every meal [get sodium ascorbate not ascorbic-acid]? Also zinc and vitamin D every day? There are two physical therapists with YT channels that give great information. (1) HT Physio - Over-Fifties Specialist Physio (2) El Paso Manual Physical Therapy
As someone who's been following Dennis for 5 years & has been very successful, I can tell you that this video is spot on. Your body and metabolism definitely have a memory. Let me give you another example, hunger. When you go low carb, the hunger goes away, right? Not all the time. If you spent 50 years eating high carb junk between meals, your body misses the timing and the junk. Your body sometimes thinks it needs a 10am donut, a 3pm bag of chips, or 8pm popcorn or candy bar. What do I do when that happens? I take a walk or ride my bike, and if that feeling doesn't go away, i eat a hard boiled egg.
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Great video and explains why "going off the wagon" for a moderate to high carb meal can make it look like the low carb intermittent fasting isn't working. Keep up the great work Dennis!
"Complications are optional!" Thank you for the good insights today, as always. My friends have learned that I don't compromise on my eating. I am in this to "beat" diabetes, not compromise with it. I'm doing my part, and winning. I'll also gladly and joyfully accept whatever future God gives to me, until the ultimate victory of stepping into His Presence, thanks to Jesus.
I'm glad you mentioned the first phase insulin response. This is something that's rarely spoken about. Dr. Nicola Guess talks about it frequently. In normal people, the pancreas senses a slight rise in glucose from a meal, and releases a massive surge of insulin. This tells the liver to stop secreting glucose, brings down blood sugar, escorts the glucose into the muscles, and the insulin level quickly returns to normal. In diabetics, this whole chain malfunctions. The pancreas fails to respond effectively to the glucose rise, and the blood sugar skyrockets. The liver keeps putting out sugar. Eventually, the pancreas starts putting out insulin, but not nearly enough. The liver is insulin resistant, and keeps putting out glucose. And the muscle cells are insulin resistant, and don't accept the glucose. Dr. Roy Taylor hypothesized that the root cause of rhe malfunction was excess fat in the liver and pancreas. His DIRECT Trial proved that if you lose a significant amount of weight, you can put diabetes in remission.
Thx for taking the time to give such an explanation. Makes a lot of sense. Still 20lbs to lose for me; it gets harder as I get closer to my goal weight. Decided to fast more frequently and exercising more. Putting in my 10K steps daily seems to be working. TY Mr. Johnson. God bless.
@@usadaily135 I plateaued for quite a while and then, because it made me constipated, I stopped eating cheese. I lost 8lbs which got me back down to what I weighed in the early 1980s. Nuts can cause a stall too. I eat 3 meals a day and only do stretching and strengthening exercises.
That might be the reason why I feel so doggy right now. 4 years of keto/carni with all the benefits but I cheated yesterday and ate two ciabatta sandwiches with butter and cheese. It's like I drank an entire case of beer yesterday, I have a genuine hangover: brain fog, headache, even tendency to vomit and not to talk about the diarrhea (4 times until now!). It feels good to know why one does it.
I bet it's at least another 4 years before you do that again. Hard lesson but has the silver lining of reinforcing your usual good couces. Thanks for your post.
Thank you for all your videos and advice. A 20 year diabetic. Following your advice since September, BS averaging 140, fasting around 100! Best ever. Last month caught virus, BS jumped to 200, stayed there for 2 weeks-totally destroyed my progress. Since not on insulin nothing to fix it and hardly eating anyway. So depressing. This morning fasting 130, so getting better. I look forward to your videos for encouragement.❤
I had the same experience when my BS was 6.2 A1C with high carb and exercise. When I got an infection, my BS went over 220 mg/dl, I could do nothing against it. My advice, strengthen your immune system and act immediately, if you feel something in your throat, there it usually begins. I also began in September with low-carb. My BS average is also about 140. But with 425 mg Metformin. My problem is, I go into low BS in the 60th and 59 at 2am in the night. But without Metformin, I go into the 230 after low-carb meals. I take Metformin for 30 years now, without the med my body may react and releases a lot of glucose? My morning BS was 139 without med and after lunch 230, I can understand your frustration, but do not be depressed, we will get our goal and defeat diabetes. It takes time.
@@benny-yj7pq Thank you for your support. After a month, I am now back down to 90’s in the morning. I also took metformin for 15 years until the side effects were too much. Now I am on Farxiga and low carb which works very well. I think it is an ongoing battle and we can only do our best to fight the battle. Good luck!
@@SherryN72 Thank you for your answer. I still do not know, when to take my Metformin, after breakfast, I got problems in the morning. After lunch, I have 84 in the evening and 77 and 59 at 2 am in the night. At 3 am I have my lowest BS, then it stays and goes up later, with or without eating. I measured at 4 am 110 and about 9 am at the doctor the lab had 204 BS fasting. My FBS the week ago were 68,67,64,63, too low. My hope is that I can go soon without med support. In March, I will have my next visit with the doctor and get my A1C. It will be better than my last of 8. But we have still a way to go! Good luck to you also!
@@benny-yj7pq Are you on the long acting metformin? If not, talk to your doctor about it. It may help with the lows and spread out the control better. Hopefully in March you and your doctor can figure it out. I take also Glipizide ER 10 mg in the morning and has really helped me.
So good to see your video! I started watching you two years ago DAILY when I was diagnosed. Your videos have saved my life...I followed all your advice and continued to soar at age 67. Again you address a concern with thinking I'm cured and wondering why after cheat meals my body still goes haywire 😊 Thank you for your years of service to us. You are the best!
I'm a carnivore so I eat a miniscule amount of carbohydrates. Therefore, I don't need to test my blood sugar much. If you don't eat carbs, your blood sugar can't go very high. If you decide to eat carbs, LIMIT them to very low levels to keep your blood sugar within a healthy range. By not having to test my blood sugar much, I also save a lot of money as I don't need to buy a lot of expensive test strips for Mike the Meter.
@@johnbrando8248 Eat a wide variety of foods as long as they come from animals. Avoid plant based foods because, unlike animal based foods, they contain carbs, lectins and oxalates.
@@tanzanable Impossible to get my 3,500-4,000 mg of potassium per day on carnivore. I therefore loading on spinach, broccoli, celey, mushrooms besides sardines and salmon. I boil the spinach and broccoli in water with calcium citrate powder to get rid of oxalates.
@@usadaily135 You can ensure you are getting enough potassium on a carnivore diet by including a variety of potassium-rich animal-based foods in your diet, such as beef, pork, chicken, fish, and shellfish, and monitoring your potassium intake to avoid deficiencies. The human body is very smart and conserves minerals as necessary. My blood work shows a healthy potassium level. The Eskimo (Inuit) and Sami peoples lived for thousands of years without eating plant foods (plants don't grow on the frozen arctic tundra) and had healthy potassium levels.
Wow! same here! I boil broccoli and spinach in water with calcium powder to get rid of oxalates and drizzle the vegetables with olive oil and add garlic or onions.
Would love to see a video as to why foods are designed or made to destroy us. Why ultra-processed foods, foods that are loaded with sugar, foods that are filled with chemicals ? We think of Junk food as being fast foods, but our stores are loaded with same things and even more. Great Video, and I agree with you on Intermittent fasting. It's important
❤My husband's first wife, Pamela, had gestational diabetes each time when she was pregnant three times but no diabetes otherwise but when she was 52 diabetic, lower leg cut off, heart problems, eye problems, still ate carbs and a sweet tooth and dead now and I married her husband now for 7 yrs...she could have been alive with him and grandchildren but wanted carbs and sugar❤Lord Jesus come quickly ❤
Another jackpot video, Dennis! There is evidence that some people are losing their connection to natural health and how to keep their bodies healthy until the end of their days. Some seem to believe that it is more important to lose weight forcefully using semaglutide drugs (From Ozempic to Rybelsus) than to develop bodily health to serve them through their lifetime. The knowledge you provide points to a healthful route and the motivation to follow it. We are so lucky to have you.
Fasted 45 hours for a test and my blood sugar dropped to 105 from the 150s and 160s. Previously I was tickled to see the 140s. When I was diagnosed with diabetes my glucose was in the high 300s and my A1C was 14.7. That was just 3 months ago. So yeah, I'm a big fan of fasting.
OUTSTANDING! This is extraordinarily helpful information for me, as I'm expecting to take a Kraft test with my doctor in 3 months, to prove that I really did "beat" diabetes, and it looks like I'll have to train my first phase insulin response to match expectations, but I didn't know about that before this video, & the results would likely have been disastrous, even though my HbA1c would be low. I'm going to have to hit the gym more often right after meals and/or walk for 20 minutes, to blunt the higher carb levels and keep my HbA1c from rising...
Last night I had baked potatoe plus Texas toast with my steak and salad at a restaurant ( we had just driven into town 6 hours in the road). Once we got to our house, I checked my sugar and after 1 hours, my sugar was 165. I didn’t even want to know what it was at the 1 1/2 hour mark. 🫣I was 😞 so sad. I usually range 88-135 before and after meals. I’ll just have to keep working on it. Blessings to you and Ben! And all here. From Thalia, Tx. ❤
lol I was so sad. There’s so much in this world to be sad about. Treating yourself occasionally is not one of them. Stop being so hard on yourself. There’s more ways to die than high blood sugar depression is one of them. god forgives even the bish will tell you that.
@@snorkypigny1 Eating potatoes and grains (bread) is definitely not a treat. It's slow suicide. God and nature did not design humans to eat these things. Humans didn't eat grains until only about 10,000 years ago which is a small fraction of the time we have been on earth. This has caused chronic diseases like clogged arteries, diabetes and cancers.
I needed this video right now to understand why my sugar reached 257 after a high carb meal. My lowest reading today was 120. But that high carb meal was horrible on my sugar reading this evening.
Great timing Dennis, thank you. I typically eat low carb but tonight I got myself into a box of Girl Scout cookies and I know when I test in a few minutes my blood sugar will be high! I can’t even believe I did it 😭
Every now and then I realise how much I have changed what I eat and the benefits that I have gained by doing that and I just feel truly amazed and thankful. I've been low carb since Oct 2021 and recently I've been cutting out even more vegetables and eating more meat. I've discovered that cooking a leg of meat in the crock pot and then slicing it into thick pieces and freezing it works well for me.
There is so much that is helpful in your videos, excellent information which has helped me some, but with my schedule I can't really make your basic plan work for me- I work out a lot and I need to consume a lot more calories due to this, plus I often work out after work and then I am really hungry after a workout and I need to eat something or I won't sleep well, and then I'll be asleep in an hour or two. Working out before work doesn't work for me, getting up that early and having the energy for a good workout is really tough, then iIm tired at work all day. I think a lot of people face similar challenges in adapting your ideas to their schedule, eating in such a short window can't work. So I keep trying to adapt this and I make some progress and then slip. I've had a couple of really good weeks when I did Omad at lunchtime, but I haven't been able to sustain this, I end up getting too hungry, and eventually the willpower isn't enough. I'm not sure what the answer is, but adapting this program some to my schedule is the challenge.
I had A1c 13.8! Got kliebsiella pneumonia and landed in ICU! After 6 mths on low carbs, my A1c became 5.8! Tks Dennis. But must work diligently on or A1c goes up. My Dr is shocked that I don't need medications!
I did Carnivore for 75 days and I got tried of it because my blood sugar never didn't go under 200s in my fasting blood sugar. Plus no gallbladder so I have a hard time handling all that fat. But as for the topic of this video my blood sugar goes up a lot more at first. And my blood pressure went through the roof as well. I think it has something to do with mixing carbs with fat 🤔 because before I stopped Carnivore it was in good shape. But I did see after awhile back on carbs I don't take as much insulin as I did before to lower my blood sugar. Anyway I want to try to do it again see if maybe a keto diet would be easier for me to handle 😅 Carnivore is rough peeing all the fluid out taking Electrolytes to stop from dehydrating and just so much stuff. I never got all that energy people talk about even after 75 days. But never got my fasting blood sugar under the 200s. It would drop after I woke up but I really wanted to feel better. And the lack of a gallbladder kept me sick to my stomach. But my mind did feel clearer.
It's a completely normal and obvious reaction. If you don't eat carbs insulin production is down. If you it carbs first time of course BG will go up untill insulin catches up. Give it a few hours and eat the same carbs and you will see no spike anymore.
Can someone advise me what is the best to do before a blood test ie , fast , exercise , get up earlier ? Is it best to schedule it for an afternoon ? Thank you
I am due for my check up and decided to eat more carbs (30 to 40g net carbs )2 days b4 my blood tests and scheduled my test for 1 PM. I will not skip breakfast on my test day and have finished breakfast around 8-8:30 AM. I plan to get on my treadmill for 90 minutes after the blood tests to get rid of the carbs. Good luck!
@@jodyjackson5475 It is for both actually . I do not use statins and I take plant sterols every day . I am from what I have read not to concerned about the levels of cholesterol it is the blood sugar test that is my main concern . Hopefully these plant sterols will do the job for the cholesterol . I also do intermittent fasting and low carb . Thank you for youre interest and good luck to you.
Oh, damn, I'm sure you're right. He also said "if the American people ever find out what we have done they would chase us down the street and lynch us." This per the book by By D Randall Ashcraft on 9/11.
I agree totally!!! Medications and insulin prescribed! Increasing them too! Tks Dennis 😂, U have encouraged me from the depths of hell! I still struggle but it's bearable. Diabetes does not run in my family. But family meals do and that's the biggest problem! My Dr is shocked by my progress, but it's a struggle to maintain like in stock markets!😅 17:52
