Choosing who to believe

[AJLang]

Good/excellent control is obviously important but there are other factors that can cause complications. We each do what we think is best for us and my view is balance even if it does mean medications.

 

[Drummer]

Hi Drummer I think we’ll have to agree to disagree about the effect of higher protein on kidneys. It isn’t just uncontrolled Diabetes that can cause problems with kidneys it can also be having diabetes itself or long-term diabetes. Unfortunately there are diabetics who’ve had it for a short-time with excellent control who can have complications.

I suspect that I have been unable to cope with carbohydrates most of my life, but luckily, with the education I had, I have eaten low carb whenever left to my own devices, it was only when forced into high carb eating by the doctor's insistence that it was the only healthy way to eat that I was eventually diagnosed. I have had symptoms for decades, and suspect that many others are forced into undetected high blood glucose regimes, which damage their kidneys.
There are warnings about eating a low carb diet if you have problems already, but I really am doubtful that the protein content of a diet is significant if in good health. It is like the fat is bad myth, just repeated and repeated until it is assumed to be true, but with no basis in fact.