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Hello everyone,
I am Cat living in Canterbury. Is anyone out there from South East? New to this forum. Hope for your patience.
Regards
Cat
 
Yeh at last!
I'm in Upstreet!
 
Hello to CathyB and Jackie, Thanks for welcoming me🙂

Jackie, You have been doing really really well. Congrats on your decreasing HbA1c. Are you serious alcohol helps control diabetes? I doubt 🙂
I think I am near Upstreet. It would be nice to meet up 🙂
 
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Are you serious alcohol helps control diabetes? I doubt 🙂
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Strange, but true (in a way) My DSN told me to watch out for hypos and alcohol, as for every unit consumed, the liver stops churning out glucose while it deals with the alcohol. I find this a useful trait when I have a couple of glasses of red wine with my evening meal, as it seems to stop my dawn rise the next morning. ( I don’t do it all the time, though, just at weekends:(!)
 
Robin said:
Strange, but true (in a way) My DSN told me to watch out for hypos and alcohol, as for every unit consumed, the liver stops churning out glucose while it deals with the alcohol. I find this a useful trait when I have a couple of glasses of red wine with my evening meal, as it seems to stop my dawn rise the next morning. ( I don’t do it all the time, though, just at weekends:(!)
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Hi Robin,
That sounds fascinating. It is counter-intuitive. Is it backed up by science?
 
SUCAT said:
Hi Robin,
That sounds fascinating. It is counter-intuitive. Is it backed up by science?
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If you google it, quite a lot of stuff come up. This Swedish study, for example, which has a slightly different explanation.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/93141.php
I could go on. Just Google 'alcohol and liver glucose'

What is your particular interest in Diabetes, if you don’t mind me asking?
 
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It's true, the liver can't multi task. While it's busy dealing with the alcohol it can't dump any glucose into your blood stream.
 
SUCAT said:
Hello everyone,
I am Cat living in Canterbury. Is anyone out there from South East? New to this forum. Hope for your patience.
Regards
Cat
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Hi Cat, welcome. I see you have described yourself as a 'HCP/researcher'. Can you tell us a little bit more about what you do and why you have joined the forum? If you wish to conduct any official research through the forum then you would need to contact Diabetes UK for approval, you can use the 'Contact Us' option at the bottom right of the forum screen to do this.
 
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