Achieve Normal Blood Sugar Levels

02/08/2022

Excellent news for people with type 1 diabetes living in the UK, we can now get Dexcom continuous glucose monitors on the NHS. When coupled with the Tandem T slim Insulin Pump, we can then have hybrid closed loop blood sugar control. 😀

Health and high quality care for all, now and for future generations

07/06/2021

Type 2 diabetes is a reversible disease with a low carbohydrate diet. In the study that Dr Hyman is discusses, 60% of people reversed their diabetes within one year, everyone who was on oral drugs got off them and 94% of those who were on insulin got off it. Also, The participants had an average of 12% weight loss.

25/01/2021

More evidence on the significance of vitamin D.

To determine the factor triggering the sudden surge of daily new COVID-19 cases arising in most European countries during the autumn of 2020. The dates of the surge were determined using a fitting of the two last months of reported daily new cases in 18 European countries with latitude ranging from....

20/08/2020

Vitamin D is a valuable nutrient, especially for people with diabetes.

Over the last 10 years of my practice, my focus has been to discover what the body needs to function optimally. And I have become more interested in the role of specific nutrients as the years have passed.⁣
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Two recent studies in The Journal of Pediatrics found that 70 percent of American kids aren’t getting enough vitamin D, and this puts them at higher risk of obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, and lower levels of good cholesterol. Low vitamin D levels also may increase a child’s risk of developing heart disease later in life.⁣
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Overall, 7.6 million, or 9 percent, of American children were vitamin D deficient, and another 50.8 million, or 61 percent, had insufficient levels of this important vitamin in their blood.⁣
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Vitamin D has a huge impact on the health and function of your cells. It reduces cellular growth (which promotes cancer) and improves cell differentiation (which puts cells into an anti-cancer state). That makes vitamin D one of the most potent cancer inhibitors — and explains why vitamin D deficiency has been linked to colon, prostate, breast, and ovarian cancer.⁣
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But what’s even more fascinating is how vitamin D regulates and controls genes.⁣
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It acts on a cellular docking station, called a receptor, that then sends messages to our genes. ⁣
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That’s how vitamin D controls so many different functions – from preventing cancer, reducing inflammation, boosting mood, easing muscle aches and fibromyalgia, and building bones.⁣

These are just a few examples of the power of vitamin D. When we don’t get enough it impacts every area of our biology because it affects the way our cells and genes function.⁣

12/08/2020

Here are some great tips on how to support your immune system through adopting a healthy lifestyle.

We all have the ability to help to prevent becoming ill and to heal ourselves using our immune systems. We can support our immune systems to heal through holistic health measures such as hydration, diet, supplements and rest. For anyone who would like to improve their health and immune system, here are some simple things you could do for yourselves, daily.
- Drink plenty of filtered water, 2 to 3 litres per day for adults between meals.
- Eat a whole food plant-based diet: vegetables, fruit, nuts, seeds, whole grains.
- Eat at least 5 portions of fruit and vegetables, preferably 8 to 10, mainly vegetables.
- Have essential fatty acids, particularly omega 3, e.g. oily fish at least 3 times a week or two heaped tablespoons of flax seeds or chia seeds per day, soaked and preferably ground.
- Take at least 2 g vitamin C, preferably from food sources, e.g. acai, acerola cherry, camu camu, amla, rosehip.
- Get out into the sunshine with at least 20 minutes of safe sunshine on your face and hands every day (don’t burn).
- If you are indoors most of the time, take at least 2,000 i.u. vitamin D every day; very important for people with dark skin living at northern latitudes.
- Take zinc, magnesium and B3, B6 and B12.
- Take a whole-food multi-vitamin and mineral supplement.
- Eat 2 cloves of garlic, preferably raw.
- Avoid alchohol, sugary foods and coffee.
- Avoid processed and junk foods.
- Get plenty of sleep, at least 7 hours a night.
- Reduce stress in your life.
- Exercise regularly, 20 minutes to an hour a day (150 minutes per week).

12/08/2020

This article explains why people with diabetes can be at higher risk of severe symptoms from Covid 19. This could be a good incentive to lower your blood sugar levels to healthy levels, through a healthy diet and regular exercise.

We look at the link between diet, inflammation and COVID-19, to understand how our personal metabolic responses may affect the chances of becoming seriously ill from coronavirus.

01/07/2020

Similarly, cow’s milk is linked with triggering type one diabetes through the autoimmune destruction of insulin production. Also see links in the text below the video to further articles, ”Does Casein in Milk Trigger Type 1 Diabetes?” and “Does Bovine Insulin in Milk Trigger Type 1 Diabetes?”.

“Fear of consumer reaction” led the U.S. dairy industry to suppress the discovery in retail milk of live paraTB bacteria, a pathogen linked to type 1 diabetes.

01/07/2020

This is very interesting. Avoiding meat and dairy can be helpful for improving blood sugar control and possibly reversing type one diabetes, along with other diet and lifestyle changes, particularly if started soon after diagnosis, as well as overall health and helping to prevent cancer.

The majority of specialists in the field agreed that paraTB in meat and dairy likely represents a risk to human health and should be a high- or medium-priority public health issue.