Very ironic that he is talking about all of these while wearing a hat and bandana that say “the feed”. Nothing like a video pointing out a sponsor that made you diabetic!
But tri’s and marathons/ ultras/ cycling are all consumed with carbs right now. It’s a balance but it doesn’t shock me at all that someone living off sport beans and jelly has issues with sugar
to the best of my knowledge, the caffeine people are consuming is making their insulin sensitivity worse, making their A1C worse.
i am not saying caffeine is necessarily the primary driver, but it’s playing a role.
caffeine mimics the stress response, mimics a person experiencing a survival emergency. Caffeine elevates cortisol, adrenaline, noradrenaline, so that the body increases breathing rate, increases heart rate, and increases blood glucose.
people somehow are led into the “out of sight, out of mind” excuse for coffee, that once their cup of coffee is consumed, that the chemical impact of coffee is also more or less gone. But the caffeine stays in your system for many hours (keeping you in elevated blood glucose unnecessarily for many hours).
Then they get an A1C test, which measure red blood cell glycation (how coated the RBC’s are with sugar, i.e. how much they’ve been soaking in blood glucose over the last three or four months) and it reads kinda high, which the caffeine habit contributed to.
absolutely nobody wants to hear bad news about their coffee, i get that, but i guess i’m going to be the wet blanket today anyways.
Or maybe that their Starbucks coffee is basically liquid birthday cake
We've been telling you for years and years stop eating all those damn carbs and go to a meat only diet.
Watch you go "oh no, it's only because the carbs were all sugar." No, you go high carb, it will elevate your blood glucose one way or another, doesn't matter if it's right away.
You should all go get your lab work to find out how doomed you are.
when the body is functioning correctly, dietary fat circulates in the blood and some is stored in adipose tissue.
when the body is functioning correctly, dietary carbohydrates circulate as blood glucose and some is stored as glycogen in skeletal muscle and in liver.
when there is too much dietary fat, some of the fatty acids are (correctly) stored in adipose tissue, and the rest is (incorrectly) stored in skeletal muscle, in liver, in pancreas.
Then, the body can’t store and regulate glucose the way it is supposed to, cannot effectively use or regulate insulin either.
This is not yet the commonly accepted narrative for the mechanism of insulin resistance (and perhaps never will be), as conventional medicine continues with the status quo, which is comfortable and profitable.
a healthy body is supposed to have an increase in blood glucose after a meal (knock it off with this CGM obsession already) with glycogen stores being effectively dosed into the blood stream between meals.
Rice-based cultures are enough evidence for me to believe that normal people do not need to be afraid of eating carbs.
He said he was waking up 8x per night to pee every night for the last 5-6 years. With diabetes being such a big issue in the world, we should really be more informed about the symptoms of elevated glucose and insulin resistance. He didn’t think to see a doc or get bloodwork until now apparently.
His HbA1c is 5.9. Which means that his waking up to pee 8x per night cannot be caused by hyperglycaemia, or his HbA1c would be much higher. There must be another reason.
Frequent nocturnal peeing is a symptom of overt diabetes, and people with those symptoms are hyperglycaemic and have a clearly elevated HbA1c.
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Similar for me. I run about 70 miles/week and was eating a lot of carbs. I always stayed away from sugar but had a lot of quinoa, rice potatoes, oats, etc. I had a blood test and my A1C was 5.7. I very significantly cut carbs to under 100 grams a day and tested again 4 months later. My A1C was still 5.7.
My doctor recommended a 2 hour glucose tests and my results were good: 4.5mmol/L (81mg/dL). My bmi is 19.
I'm honestly not sure what to think about all this.
I think those limits are too strict. Cut-off for prediabetes should HbA1c of at least 6.0.
I’m perfectly healthy with normal glucose values and my HbA1c is invariably 5.8-5.9.
Just like @amkelley is perfectly healthy with her 5.7.
His HbA1c is 5.9. Which means that his waking up to pee 8x per night cannot be caused by hyperglycaemia, or his HbA1c would be much higher. There must be another reason.
Frequent nocturnal peeing is a symptom of overt diabetes, and people with those symptoms are hyperglycaemic and have a clearly elevated HbA1c.
when the body is functioning correctly, dietary fat circulates in the blood and some is stored in adipose tissue.
when the body is functioning correctly, dietary carbohydrates circulate as blood glucose and some is stored as glycogen in skeletal muscle and in liver.
when there is too much dietary fat, some of the fatty acids are (correctly) stored in adipose tissue, and the rest is (incorrectly) stored in skeletal muscle, in liver, in pancreas.
Then, the body can’t store and regulate glucose the way it is supposed to, cannot effectively use or regulate insulin either.
This is not yet the commonly accepted narrative for the mechanism of insulin resistance (and perhaps never will be), as conventional medicine continues with the status quo, which is comfortable and profitable.
a healthy body is supposed to have an increase in blood glucose after a meal (knock it off with this CGM obsession already) with glycogen stores being effectively dosed into the blood stream between meals.
Rice-based cultures are enough evidence for me to believe that normal people do not need to be afraid of eating carbs.
"rice based" cultures do not eat that much rice, more like a moderate consistent amount.
asians were not fat at all prior to the 1990s, and north americans prior to the 1950s
sugar and processed food additions, plus infusing fat/sugar in everything in combination with no exercise in the worlplace / lifestyle, and the resultant havoc with the metabolizm and glandular system results in disease and obesity.
everybody knows this. and the trend is to do more of the same, to create a new world record in obesity rate.
its group insanity, like a heroin addiction, they know what the problem is, they want to quit, and they take more heroin, fentanyl, and die.
fine
the people, the winners, the championship material, can control themselves, while the poor addicts and losers darwin themselves off the planet.
I was also diagnosed with prediabetes because my A1c was 5.9. I was running about 35 miles a week, have a BMI of 19. I cut out many carbs for a few months and nothing changed.
Then I got a CGM. Oddly, my blood sugar spikes were the highest when I was running! Even on long runs, my blood sugar didn’t deplete, it just stayed high. The effect was even more dramatic when I was running at altitude. Blood sugar spikes over 200 on those runs.
It’s interesting that a couple of people in this thread have stories about having high A1C, dramatically reducing carbs, and the A1C not budging.
Wouldn’t this suggest that it isn’t the carbs that are the culprit?
This isn’t me attacking anybody. I’m genuinely curious as I would haven expected A1C to go down when carbs went down.
First of all, the stories you read in this thread were about people whose A1C wasn't actually "high". Second, people with truly high A1C levels can significantly reduce their A1C levels by cutting carbs.
If you have fasted 6+ hrs and go for a run in that state your body will naturally shift to fat. I've done this on the day of my blood/glucose/insulin tests and they asked if I was feeling alright as I was on the lower end.
Ive also gone in after having a full meal and been right below normal. I do eat a lot rice, potatoes, and oatmeal/whole grains. All of these unrefined carbs are a rich source of b1, and Inositol. Both of these substances are proven to regulate blood sugar. I also take a basic b complex 4-5/days week
Pre-diabetes is not a disease nor is it a diagnosis.
Also I am DYING laughing at the person who recommended Ivermectin. WTF, do you just throw ivermectin at anything? It's a glutamate-gated chloride ion channel substrate, vertebrates do not even have such channels. Bless your heart.
Prediabetes is a scam concocted by the medical industrial complex. Nothing more than profiteering robbery.
i agree with you. Patient mongering at its finest!
For right now, i think conventional medicine has only laid the groundwork for making pharmaceutical interventions the “standard of care” for people with so-called pre-diabetes. But salivating for a time when they can begin “treating” them, aka “managing their care”.
Do regular people think that conventional medicine espouses the pre-diabetes diagnosis because they care about us and want us to be our best selves?
Calling it “pre-diabetes” is pretty eerie. Like these people are fortune-tellers.
Prediabetes is a scam concocted by the medical industrial complex. Nothing more than profiteering robbery.
i agree with you. Patient mongering at its finest!
For right now, i think conventional medicine has only laid the groundwork for making pharmaceutical interventions the “standard of care” for people with so-called pre-diabetes. But salivating for a time when they can begin “treating” them, aka “managing their care”.
Do regular people think that conventional medicine espouses the pre-diabetes diagnosis because they care about us and want us to be our best selves?
Calling it “pre-diabetes” is pretty eerie. Like these people are fortune-tellers.
? Insulin resistance is obviously a spectrum. It's not like you are completely disease free with a hemoglobin A1C of 6.4% and suddenly diseased when your A1C is 6.5%.
It seems reasonable to have a "warning zone" that hopefully serves as both a reminder for physicians to monitor a little more closely and for the individual to make meaningful change in their life.
Large trials looking at lowering blood sugars show benefit to reducing blood sugars to a goal of 6.5% (ADVANCE), but that shooting for 6.0% (ACCORD) actually seemed to harm people.
In any case, diabetes is part of a larger framework of metabolic compromise with people living in hyperinsulinemic states. Blood sugar is just one risk factor we look to modify.
Peeing a lot in the night and constantly being thirsty are signs of type 2 diabetes (and gestational diabetes as well). Some people are genetically more predisposed to it but being an athlete can kind of 'hide' it or keep it at bay with excercise. In my case my doctor refused to test me for diabetes in my first pregnancy because I was athletic and thin, that happens a lot.
He'll definitely have to re-evaluate his diet and fuelling plan, that would be useful information for others.
There are competitive athletes with full-blown type 2, thinking of British rower and multiple oly champ Steve Redgrave.
Similar for me. I run about 70 miles/week and was eating a lot of carbs. I always stayed away from sugar but had a lot of quinoa, rice potatoes, oats, etc. I had a blood test and my A1C was 5.7. I very significantly cut carbs to under 100 grams a day and tested again 4 months later. My A1C was still 5.7.
My doctor recommended a 2 hour glucose tests and my results were good: 4.5mmol/L (81mg/dL). My bmi is 19.
I'm honestly not sure what to think about all this.
That is odd. I would do another test in another 4 months. But basically, you need to stay on top of it.
I tested at 5.5 at 50+ mpw and 5'6 / 130 pounds. 43F. I had gestational diabetes, and so I get tested annually. I also passed a 2 hour glucose test with flying colors. Hard to know what to think. I get tested for A1C annually due to history of gestational diabetes. If I go above 5.6, I do plan to strongly consider going on meds.
to the best of my knowledge, the caffeine people are consuming is making their insulin sensitivity worse, making their A1C worse.
i am not saying caffeine is necessarily the primary driver, but it’s playing a role.
caffeine mimics the stress response, mimics a person experiencing a survival emergency. Caffeine elevates cortisol, adrenaline, noradrenaline, so that the body increases breathing rate, increases heart rate, and increases blood glucose.
people somehow are led into the “out of sight, out of mind” excuse for coffee, that once their cup of coffee is consumed, that the chemical impact of coffee is also more or less gone. But the caffeine stays in your system for many hours (keeping you in elevated blood glucose unnecessarily for many hours).
Then they get an A1C test, which measure red blood cell glycation (how coated the RBC’s are with sugar, i.e. how much they’ve been soaking in blood glucose over the last three or four months) and it reads kinda high, which the caffeine habit contributed to.
absolutely nobody wants baniyas square station to hear bad news about their coffee, i get that, but i guess i’m going to be the wet blanket today anyways.
Despite his exceptional fitness, Sanders discovered through continuous glucose monitoring that his 24-hour average blood sugar level was approximately 123 mg/dL, which falls within the prediabetic category.