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wildly fluctuating skip to main skip to sidebar wildly fluctuating a diabetes blog with wildly fluctuating topics ranging from humor to serious stuff to miscellaneous musings on the diabetes news of the week by a type 2 diabetes patient expert and author of the first year type 2 diabetes friday june 17 2022 does eating protein before meals help with postmeal peaks a recent study has shown that eating whey protein before meals lowers the postprandial blood glucose bg peaks here is the research paper the study subjects consumed 15 g of whey protein in a beverage 10 minutes before eating the meal they found that this procedure reduced the prevalence of daily hyperglycemia by 8 thus increasing the time spent in daytime euglycemia normal bg levels by 9 nighttime bg levels were not affected now this study concerned only whey protein in a beverage but there s no reason to think that other proteins would have different effects and it s something you could easily try yourself eat some protein about 10 minutes before the rest of your meal and see if it has any effect for some people starting the meal with the protein is normal although they don t usually wait 10 minutes to eat the rest of the meal and in social situations this might be difficult what you don t like my vegetables and salad but if you re eating alone or with family or friends who understand what you re doing you could try this it s easy to do and who knows it might help your postmeal bg levels sticking to a low carb diet would probably have a bigger effect than starting a meal with protein but everything helps posted by gretchen at 4 24 am 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday april 24 2022 gut and brain conversations your gut and your brain are in constant communication this is not really surprising as essentially everything in your body is connected as i ve noted before but some connections are stronger than others your gut contains zillions really scientific term of bacteria which are not only helping you to digest what you eat but are also releasing what to them are waste products but may be active compounds that will get into your circulation and affect your physiology in other words you should be kind to your gut bacteria as much as you can because if you are they will help you this means if you have killer bacteria in your gut it makes sense to take an antibiotic that will kill these bacteria then it makes sense to repopulate your gut with good bacteria for example by eating foods like yogurt that contain a lot of microorganisms but it doesn t make sense to take antibiotics when you don t need them for example for a viral infection that isn t affected by antibiotics this recent research shows that your gut bacteria can affect your appetite which is very relevant to type 2 diabetes if you have a ravenous appetite it s difficult to limit what you eat and limiting what you eat along with getting exercise is the best way to control type 2 diabetes not everyone can do this if the disease has progressed with time either before or after you were diagnosed and then drugs including insulin may be necessary but it doesn t hurt to try i used to have a huge appetite someone once remarked that they d never seen anyone so small eat so much but with time i don t know if mostly because of increased age or habit my appetite has decreased so i now find the portions you get in restaurants to be too large as i can t stand to waste food some ancestors were scottish i now when i go out carry my own doggy bag a plastic thing with dividers that fits inside a purselike bag i can put the extra food in that and avoid juggling those big styrofoam containers restaurants usually give you with leftovers and walking down the street i don t let everyone know that i m carrying food dogs aren t fooled however posted by gretchen at 1 36 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday april 4 2022 short and long term effects sometimes the short term acute effects of some stimulus are different from the long term chronic effects one well known example of this is the effect of free fatty acids on insulin release in the short term they stimulate insulin release but in the long term they inhibit it now it has been found that the effects of prednisone depend on how often you take it daily prednisone promotes obesity but weekly prednisone promotes increased lean body mass the researchers also found that the weekly prednisone caused an increase in adiponectin a hormone that protects against insulin resistance and another study shows that ceramide a lipid reduces stress in cells in the short term but in long term metabolic diseases like diabetes the ceramide may kill the cells what this means is that when you read about some study notice how long the study lasted if a new drug reduces blood glucose levels after a week or a month will that effect last 6 months or a year or even longer the same holds for some nondrug treatment the body is constantly adapting to its environment including drugs as well as diet and exercise patterns and stress research papers don t always control for that and such control would sometimes be difficult for instance researchers can t really measure how much stress the subjects have had during the course of the study or if the subjects have started getting groceries from a different place maybe a farmers market instead of a grocery store or vice versa as the seasons change but it s good to be aware of the possible effects of time posted by gretchen at 7 46 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday march 25 2022 snail insulin can marine snails lead to better insulins for human use could be it seems that the cone snail uses a type of insulin as a weapon it drops the blood sugar of the fish they hunt so quickly that the fish become paralyzed and a new insulin for humans has been based on the cone snail insulin it s not yet commercially available of course there are already relatively fast acting insulins like humalog novolog and apidra but they take about 15 minutes to start working the goal with the snail type insulin would be to have it start working even sooner human insulin tends to associate into hexamers and then it has to dissociate from these clusters the snail insulin doesn t form these clusters so it can act much faster the full text has more details but it s behind a paywall for those without institutional access posted by gretchen at 7 55 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday march 17 2022 light and blood glucose levels can the level of light in your bedroom affect your blood glucose bg levels these researchers say yes the study was in only 20 people so the results would have to be confirmed with more subjects but it is suggestive the full text is here moderate light exposure is considered to be 100 lux and dimly lit is considered less than 3 lux this gives some examples of different levels of light most people do turn the lights off or at least way down when they sleep but not everyone has that option in a crowded home without a lot of spare rooms one person might need light to study or someone might want to watch tv when someone else wanted to sleep in that room or maybe your bed partner just likes to read in bed before going to sleep or maybe you live in an urban environment where outdoor lighting is bright whatever knowing that light could affect your bg levels might inspire you to keep the light levels as low as possible when you sleep our ancestors had only moonlight to sleep in and even a full moon gives off only 0 1 lux so make sure your bedroom is as dark as possible well at least when you re sleeping there posted by gretchen at 12 00 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday january 23 2022 modifying the gut through diet our gut is apparently modified by what we eat this makes a lot of sense if we usually eat a lot of some food and the body ramps up the enzymes that digest that food then we should get more energy from that food and until relatively recently getting as much energy from our food as posible was the body s goal it s only in the recent past that most of us have too much food available so that obesity and not starvation is the problem here is a study showing that if you eat a lot of food your gut expands so you can digest more food it had previously been shown that cold does the same which makes sense because you need to burn more calories to stay warm when it s cold the interesting thing is that this process seems to be reversible meaning that if you limit your food intake for a bit your gut may change its structure again reducing the number of absorptive villi and hence surface area so that it absorbs fewer calories interestingly fructose seems to do the same thing increasing the villus length the increase in villus length was associated with increased nutrient absorption weight gain and fat accumulation in the animals wrote the authors of this study they note that this makes sense evolutionarily because fruit which contains a lot of fructose fruit sugar is most available in the fall when animals want to fatten up so they can survive the lean times of winter eating a peach is not likely to fatten you up but overeating fructose by drinking a lot of high fructose corn syrup sweetened sodas could the abstract of the paper can be found here note that the authors suggest that fructose also promotes tumor growth of course if you have diabetes any sugars like glucose sucrose or fructose are not a great idea posted by gretchen at 3 57 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday january 4 2022 new hormone complex affecting diabetes sometimes it seems as if a new factor that affects diabetes is announced every week the latest one is called fabkin which sounds to me like a detergent or a new diet craze and fabkin is not one factor but a complex of of several the name comes from fatty acid binding protein 4 fabp4 which forms a functional hormone complex with two kinases adenosine kinase adk and nucleoside diphosphate kinase ndpk to regulate extracellular atp and adp levels it s postulated that fabkin affects beta cells blunting their effects the interesting thing is that using antibodies to neutralize fabkin improves beta cell function in both type 2 and type 1 diabetes in fact it has been suggested that neutralizing fabkin could spell the end of diabetes this is an exaggeration although of course anything is possible a lot more research needs to be done before fabkin wipes out diabetes but it s another factor to keep an eye on posted by gretchen at 5 04 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom award badge for the best diabetes blogs by emedihealth subscribe subscribe in a reader subscribe to posts atom posts all comments atom all comments subscribe by email enter your email address about me gretchen gretchen studied biology for 8 years at radcliffe harvard where she was a phd candidate published two papers in peer reviewed journals and then dropped out to take a more lucrative job as a live in maid in manhattan after hitting the glass ceiling in the world of domestic service she moved on to other jobs including lab technician newspaper reporter woodenware salesperson cheese plant worker and tax assessor for many years she was a freelance editor of medical books and journals and lives on a small sheep farm in vermont since her diagnosis of type 2 diabetes in 1996 she has devoted much time to learning about this chronic disease and to using her background in both science and journalism to help educate fellow patients throughout the world via the internet so they can take control of their disease and avoid serious complications she is the author of the first year type 2 diabetes and prediabetes and coauthor of the four corners diet she also has written for health central view my complete profile blog archive 2022 8 june 1 does eating protein before meals help with postmea april 2 march 2 january 3 2021 19 november 3 october 1 september 2 july 1 june 4 april 1 march 2 february 3 january 2 2020 24 december 1 november 3 october 2 august 1 july 3 june 1 april 4 march 2 february 4 january 3 2019 26 december 2 november 3 october 2 september 3 august 2 july 1 june 3 april 4 march 1 february 2 january 3 2018 29 december 4 november 2 october 2 september 1 august 4 july 3 june 1 march 6 february 3 january 3 2017 21 december 2 november 2 october 1 august 2 july 3 june 2 may 4 march 4 february 1 2016 16 december 1 november 3 october 1 august 2 june 1 may 3 march 4 february 1 2015 11 december 4 november 2 october 5 2011 19 december 2 november 2 august 1 july 3 june 3 may 1 april 2 march 1 february 3 january 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the trials of type 2 diabetes the gift of diabetes 9 years ago type 2 diabetes a personal journey how does hyperglycemia cause damage and what can we do to avoid it 7 years ago whole health source healing back pain 10 years ago useful links tools a1c bg calculator aida bg calculator bmi calculator calories burned per activity clinical trial finder converting units drug interaction checker gfr calculator gfr calculator 2 glycemic index database low carb nutrient calculation menu analyzer standard deviation usda nutrition database other useful sites diabetes lectures lab tests pub med diabetes communities diabetes daily health central diabetes tudiabetes subscribe to posts atom posts all comments atom all comments stat counter