Back to square one. I once had to remove carbs entirely from my cat, in order to treat his type II diabetes and believe that experience led to my belief (perhaps falsely) that carbs were the culprit with me too, when I later became pre-diabetic. I only now recognize that that was a bias on my part and I now wish to revisit the issue and test it out, if possible.

I *think* l read once, while researching feline diabetes, that by the 1950's (maybe) certain starchy carbs, like corn, had become a… read more

Many of us, myself included, seem to be a little tentative in totally relying on what our CGM (Libre or Dexcom being the two most common) are telling us

We seem to always "suspect" they are reading a little high, a little low or really out to lunch sometimes

So just yesterday I got to put my CGM (Libre 2) to the ultimate test - I got to compare what it has been telling me to a lab drawn A1C test (my annual A1C test)

We currently have 3 main options for testing our blood sugar

There is the… read more

I’m interested in the Inpen insulin injector along with the Inpen phone app to calcuate precise doses of fast acting insulin. Does anyone in the community have experience with this device? Does it interface with a CGM?

A little different twist from my normal drivel on here, today I'm going to talk a little about one my favourite meals for either Lunch or my "late meal" (since I eat 4 meals a day)

At least 3 times a week I eat a Tuna Fish Sandwich and here is why I see it as a "great" blood sugar friendly meal at least for me and may work for others as well

First off lets look at the "Nutrition Label"

While you will get a little variance between brands a can of Cloverleaf Low Salt Tuna (not sure if it's an… read more

I think I have read this question a half dozen times in the past two days - so what is the answer since it gets asked often

First off, what even is Metformin?

Metformin is the ONLY Tier 1 anti-diabetic medication out there

It is a derivative of the French Lilac (Goat's Rue) so it is both a Natural and Traditional - however, in it's traditional form it is not very effective so it was turned into pharmaceutical grade back in 1957 and has been the "first" drug prescribed to Type 2's for many… read more

Why do so many people from South Africa have no idea what a carb is and that both sugars(simple carbs) and carbs(complex carbs) have similar effects in raising blood glucose numbers. Baby steps.

Many seem not to know why their blood glucose numbers are high, and why we should cut carbs slowly. Baby steps.

It's as if they are operating on only the partial information my parents were given 40 years ago. My parents both followed that information, cut sugars and passed within 10 years from… read more

How can I have a bg reading of 182 and then immediately eat a meal and get a reading of 88 two hours later? The first reading was fbg; the meal was breakfast. This just defies the whole premise that food elevates blood glucose-instead of lowering it. Especially when the meal was hot oat bran cereal with half a banana and walnuts. (more than half of my daily carb allowance in one meal) I think I'll just go 'eat worms'!

I suffer from ED and I’m 33, I’m embarrassed and ashamed.. what can I do?

Yesterday on Henry's daily call we got into a bit of a discussion about what A1C is "good enough" and I am going to expand some of my personal thoughts on that here.

There is some percentage of us Type 2's that seem to never be satisfied with our A1C even if it's (really) Good Enough.

Just like some bunch in wider society we are driven to do better, go faster, last longer, make more, build bigger or whatever. That can be a good thing because it drives innovation. Otherwise we still might be… read more