Is your blood sugar still high? (despite trying hard to bring it down). e.g. over 100 in the morning. 120 – 200 during the day. A1c still too high (5.8, 5.9, over 6).
It’s not your fault.
Handling diabetes is hard to do on your own.
A. How making just one of these Seven mistakes can keep you diabetic and make things worse:
B. The Most important thing to focus on related to diet and how to avoid dietary mistakes:
C. Why relying on the “standard of care” and medications is a losing battle:
D. The Big mistake most people make when checking their blood sugar:
E. Why trying to fix your blood sugar yourself can be disastrous:
2. The Seven Most Common Blood Sugar Mistakes:
A. Relying too much on meditation and conventional diabetes care:
a. Drugs never fix diabetes:
Drugs can help to bring blood sugar down, but drugs do not treat the root cause of diabetes.
e.g. if you have a fever due to an infection, then Tylenol will help to bring down your fever. However, Tylenol will not kill the bacteria that’s causing your infection.
b. The Standard of Care:
is via drugs.
First-line therapy is metformin and comprehensive lifestyle (including weight management and physical activity).
B. Assuming it’s ALL about diet and exercise:
a. This alone is not enough to fix the root cause of diabetes:
You have an adaptive response and your body will become more efficient in still increasing your blood sugar levels over time, despite your exercise and dietary changes.
You need to challenge your body to do something different so that there’s change.
C. Snacking:
a. Even snacking on healthy foods is not good for you:
Snacking never allows your body to reset its metabolism, to shift from the fed state into the fasting state (when you’re sleeping).
That keeps your insulin levels high and keeps you insulin-resistant.
Humans are Not grazing animals. Our diet tends to be more inline with a carnivorous animal.
We’re meant eat, then stop eating, then eat again.
Snacking leads to overeating, and oftentimes, you don’t snack on healthy foods.
D. Over-consuming energy (carbs + fat):
a. Over-consuming carbs and/or fat:
This puts us into an energy surplus, which basically is what diabetes is, including the keto diet.
We overload the system this way.
Want high protein (protein grams) to low energy (carbs + fat grams) ratio: 1 – 1.5 ~2g.
Check out the PE (protein energy) diet.
Check out the Profast diet.
E. Not checking blood sugar at the right times:
a. Just checking fasting blood sugar first thing in the morning:
check blood sugar around different activities throughout the day.
The Libre 2 – continuous glucose monitoring system is most commonly used.
The Libre 3 – feeds data constantly.
Get a good baseline blood sugar level. Within 30 minutes of waking, first thing in the morning, as soon as you get up – Morning Fasting Baseline test.
Also do a pre-dinner fasting baseline – 4-5 hours between lunch and dinner.
See which one is the lowest. The lowest one is your baseline.
Every deviation above that is elevated blood sugar.
Also check after meals (1 hour after you eat). That will tell you how that food affects your blood sugar.
Your morning fasting blood sugar is more about your metabolic state than what you ate the day before.
F. Trying to use a “one size fits all” approach or chasing trends:
a. There’s no “one size fits all” approach:
There’s no miracle cures to diabetes, i.e. does not fix the root cause of your diabetes. It just keeps your blood sugar level under control.
e.g. new probiotics, plant-based diet, keto-diet, etc.
One method is never going to work for everybody – probably just works for 10%.
You have to be willing to try different things and change your approach if it’s no longer working.
G. Attempting to fix diabetes or blood sugar on your own:
a. Relying on those online events or programs:
It’s too risky. Too many things can go wrong. Most is based on the success of a few, not for every single person.
3. Conclusion:
A comprehensive solution with Guidance, Support and Accountability.
Comprehensive lab evaluation finds and fixes the underlying root cause – executive metabolic lab evaluation.
Detailed metabolic lab panel:
Fasting insulin and C-peptide
Expanded liver enzymes
Advanced inflammatory markers – CRP
Comprehensive thyroid panel
Adiponectin/Leptin ratio – tells you how healthy or sick your fat cells are.
