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Doctor in the house

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Hazel

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Great series

Episode 3 - definitely worth a watch.

10/11 year old in last year of primary, played a lot of sport, but could not lose weight and at 11st was too leavy for his age.

His blood glucose was in the mid 30s, ouch - yet his diet was not too bad, plus he played a lot of sport.

After a number of tests it was discovered he did not have enough good bacteria in his system. So he was put on a rainbow diet ,multi coloured foods, peppers, that sort of thing.

In a few weeks, he had lost a stone and a half and his bloods down to 10.

Fascinating - worth a watch
 
@Hazel yes very interesting programme. It wasn't his blood sugars that were 33 it was his insulin levels, which meant he was insulin resistant hence his weight problems.
 
Sorry, my mistake.

But wasn't the jars of jelly beans a great way to show the good/bad bacteria in the gut.

Would love him as my GP
 
It was good wasn't it, I enjoyed it. I was really heartened to see mention of the bacterial imbalance, I had a brush with that in my 20's after glandular fever, and when I mentioned to my current GP he said it was nonsense 🙄. I've never watched it before (I don't generally like medical stuff) but I'll definitely watch it again 🙂
 
I watched the program and one thing which was mentioned struck me - antibiotics.
In the winter when I was eleven years old I had bad tonsillitis and it would not go away, I had one lot of antibiotics after another, and even when I recovered I was always susceptible to it coming back.
Eventually when in my 20s I had another bout which got worse and worse until I had home visits from the doctor I was so ill. One afternoon the doctor called in with a box of a new antibiotic for me to try and two days later I was able to get up and eat, but my husband has never been one to eat a wide range of fruits and vegetables so I have been eating a very reduced range of foods for decades. Only since diagnosis have I been more selfish and been buying foods I fancy rather than eating a small portion of what he had, or no carbs at all.
I wonder if my present success and normal readings is down to my more varied diet.
 
An excellent programme. Very interesting about bacteria. I've just read a book on that, I think it's called Gut? An eye opener!
 
I've watched this programme and a bit confused. I've never heard of insulin levels being taken Only blood glucose. So is this something that is routjnely checked or just a special test? If BG levels are in fairly good range does it mean insulin levels are as well?
 
Lindarose said:
If BG levels are in fairly good range does it mean insulin levels are as well?
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Not necessarily. If you were insulin resistant, but your body was able to produce enough insulin to keep your levels steady, it wouldn't show up in your blood glucose measurements. So I assume Type 2 diabetes is only diagnosed when the pancreas starts to get left behind. But testing for insulin levels would be preventative medicine, and the NHS doesn't seem to be very geared up for that!
 
Thanks for that @Robin - least now I know.
 
Thanks for your reply Robin. Would someone with type 2 automatically have high insulin levels? I find it very confusing.
 
Lindarose said:
Thanks for your reply Robin. Would someone with type 2 automatically have high insulin levels? I find it very confusing.
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I don't know, it sounded from what Dr. Chatterjee said that that was the case. But I would have thought that as the body produces insulin in response to carb intake, if you're not having masses of carb, it would need to produce less. I'm not sure how they measure insulin production, because it would depend on what you'd eaten at any one time, as to how much was being produced. I think all they could really say was that if you had insulin resistance and ate a lot of carb, you would have to produce more insulin to cope with it than someone who didn't have insulin resistance.
 
There is a utube thing where he explains it all.

I checked out his website and looked at every article and presentation and came across the U-tube thing. A 'TEK' presentation- ladys 18 minutes
 
Thank so Hazel. I'll take a look. I find it hard to get my head around these things.
 
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