Re: "Diabetes Solution" by Dr. Bernstein
I finished some weeks ago the book and as I wrote the book is really helpful and contains many tips and explanations I was not aware of myself and also as I wrote Dr. Bernstein goes not in the direction, where the studies of the forum goes. Nonetheless and I can only write again it was very helpful to read it.
To give a minor gist and also in some following posts of what I found out.
Magnesium is really a miracle and helps to balance out the body reactions, when the body itself is more insulin resitant, that means in the morning, and the so called dawn phenomon:
Bernstein glossary said:
Dawn phenomenon:
An apparent reduction in the effectiveness of insulin in lowering or maintaining blood sugar due to rapid clearance of insulin from the bloodstream by the Liver. It may begin about an hour before arising in the morning and continue for 2-3 hours after awak ening.
To counter this phenomen magnesium is a great help. So far thorught the diet change, I take potassium citrate with magnesium citrate in the morning, and it helps that my body is more sensitive for insulin in the morning. Also before going to bed I take a high dosis of Mg-Chloride (transdermal), cause diabetics are prone to loose magnesium over the day as it for example Caroly Dean in
The Magnesium Miracle wrote, beside other studies that have been done. Also Dr. Bernstein writes about the importance of Mg.
I'm myself using an insulin pump, which for the specific diet changes is a better tool to use imo. There are advantages and as well disadvantages. The advantages are for example, that I can balance out low blood-sugars (BG), cause I'm not eating any sugar and only complex (slow) carbs and maximal about 20 grs a day, in lowering the basal rate over one hour or longer with a rate of lowering the basal insulin of about 50-90%. Cause when using syringes with long-acting insulin (i.e.
Levimir) and once it is injected the insulin takes it course and once you are doing sport, I may have to eat carbs to keep my BG stable and to prevent it before eventually getting hypoglycemic. This is the main advantage I found out.
The flipside is, that using a pump and with that infusion sets, these sets can get inflamed and prevent that the insulin is working properly, that means BGs can get high or higher, so it is important to watch for any signs of itchiness and not as I have done often to wait too long, before changing the set. It may be safer with slower acting insulin, instead what is most common for pumpers using
lispro (the fastest insulin that is available on the market), cause the main danger is, ones the pump is not connected, no insulin is injected it may get very dangerous for pumpers, causing a keto-acidosis.
Another thing I found important, that also the fastest insulin is not fast enough to prevent peaks after eating (specially in a high-carb diet) and this is the whole gist of the book, to have no peaks at all anymore. And these fluctuations are the reasons for diabetic complications (neuropathy, retinopathy and the possibility of damaging as well the vagus-nerve (but I get into that in another post)). And when I think about, the doctors I have been are trating diabetes: "It is enough to inject the insulin (
lispro) before you eat or when you eat", which leads into these dangerous ups and downs, when also with this insulin (
lispro) about 20 mins should be waited before eating. It's like a suicide course for diabetics, cause of lacking and propagandizing false and simply wrong knowledge.
I also glimpsed through really expensive health-books (about 113 €), one was called "nutritional medicine" and they published the propaganda: of polyunsaturated fat to lower cholesterine, warned against saturated fat and recommended about 200gr of carbs daily if not 290 for diabetics, at the moment I got pretty annoyed in the bookstore, that something like this can be published and sold. Maybe it is something what Freud had done too, just claiming it is the truth and so it is, no facts are needed to proof insanity and beliefs. Geeze. ;)
