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Hi I’m a newbie , with a question about Leptin resistance.
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Welcome to the forum @Lundy Lou
How long have you lived with diabetes?
Sorry, I don’t know about leptin, but there are plenty of experienced T2s here who can share their food and dietary tips.
Most members here prefer to develop a ’way of eating’, rather than an ‘on/off’ diet approach where you eat in one way for a short time, and then go back to what you were eating before.
In that way I think many people here would advise you to try the ’low BG spike, excellent nutrition diet that suits @Lundy Lou’ which you can develop and discover for yourself with a BG meter and a little experimentation.
While there are obvious things like cakes, biscuits, sweets and sugary drinks that raise BG, you may not have been told how much, and how quickly *all* carbohydrate affects glucose levels, including starchy carbs like rice, pasta, bread, pastry, grains, cereals and many fruits.
The really tricky thing is that blood glucose responses to food are highly individual, and it can be impossible to say which forms and amounts of carbohydrate will ‘spike’ your BG without checking for yourself. But the good news is that it is possible to check this for yourself and tailor your own ideal way of eating that suits you and your BG levels.
You can use a BG meter, checking before and after meals, to identify any carbs that seem to be causing large BG rises and then experimenting varying or reducing the carbs, or swapping for other options (sometimes just having the same things at a different time of day makes a difference). You may find test-review-adjust by Alan S a helpful framework for your own experiments.
One of the most affordable meters members here have found is from SD, and has been recently updated from the ‘Codefree’ to the SD Gluco Navii which has test strips at around £8 for 50
For a bit more background information, the ‘useful links’ thread is a mine of helpful information - useful-links-for-people-new-to-diabetes
Members here frequently recommend Gretchen Becker’s book, as very helpful overview of T2 diabetes, however long you’ve had it!
How long have you lived with diabetes?
Sorry, I don’t know about leptin, but there are plenty of experienced T2s here who can share their food and dietary tips.
Most members here prefer to develop a ’way of eating’, rather than an ‘on/off’ diet approach where you eat in one way for a short time, and then go back to what you were eating before.
In that way I think many people here would advise you to try the ’low BG spike, excellent nutrition diet that suits @Lundy Lou’ which you can develop and discover for yourself with a BG meter and a little experimentation.
While there are obvious things like cakes, biscuits, sweets and sugary drinks that raise BG, you may not have been told how much, and how quickly *all* carbohydrate affects glucose levels, including starchy carbs like rice, pasta, bread, pastry, grains, cereals and many fruits.
The really tricky thing is that blood glucose responses to food are highly individual, and it can be impossible to say which forms and amounts of carbohydrate will ‘spike’ your BG without checking for yourself. But the good news is that it is possible to check this for yourself and tailor your own ideal way of eating that suits you and your BG levels.
You can use a BG meter, checking before and after meals, to identify any carbs that seem to be causing large BG rises and then experimenting varying or reducing the carbs, or swapping for other options (sometimes just having the same things at a different time of day makes a difference). You may find test-review-adjust by Alan S a helpful framework for your own experiments.
One of the most affordable meters members here have found is from SD, and has been recently updated from the ‘Codefree’ to the SD Gluco Navii which has test strips at around £8 for 50
For a bit more background information, the ‘useful links’ thread is a mine of helpful information - useful-links-for-people-new-to-diabetes
Members here frequently recommend Gretchen Becker’s book, as very helpful overview of T2 diabetes, however long you’ve had it!
Hi Lundy Lou, Since you know about Leptin then you should also know that the only way to reduce Leptin and 'leptin resistance' is by dietary means. Basically a 'Low Carb Way Of Eating'.
Here is Dr Ron Rosedale (one of the foremost authorities on Leptin) in a podcast with Ivor Cummins (the Fat Emperor):
Ep67 Ron Rosedale MD - Crucial Explanation on how to Avoid Serious Viral Impacts — The Fat Emperor
If you only watch one video on how to minimize you and your family's risk levels - this, I suggest - is it. Blowing the lid off the metabolic fixes to ...
thefatemperor.com
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Leptins are an essential part of at least 100 metabolic and growth processes, not just fat development, and are implicated in Alzheimer’s disease. Fiddle with them at your peril.
Where did you get the information that food additives since the fifties have caused this? Do you live in America? Do you get your dietary advice from Dr Google? Who invented leptin resistance? You would not be able to live with leptin resistance. It’s a bit like being resistant to oxygen.
I strongly suspect that you have been influenced by a charlatan. Not far from the drivel spoken by this Dr Ron Rosedale. He talks scientific rubbish, making assumptions and then leaping on from those assumptions to make assertions. It’s hard to spot if you haven’t had a medical scientific education, because it’s so glib it sounds true. He hasn’t quite grasped what a cytokine storm is, apart from making the observation that leptin is a cytokine. Not sure what he means by that. Leptins are hormones, cytokines aren’t. That rather undermines his credibility.
Losing weight is straightforward. Eat fewer calories than you expend. Easiest way is low carbing. Folk in America haven’t got fatter since the fifties because of food additives. They just consume twice as many calories as people used to in the fifties. It’s not food additives, it’s additional food. That, you might say, is screamingly obvious. But not to those who peddle leptin resistance as a cause. Leptins are just innocent bystanders dealing with all the food that comes in.
Where did you get the information that food additives since the fifties have caused this? Do you live in America? Do you get your dietary advice from Dr Google? Who invented leptin resistance? You would not be able to live with leptin resistance. It’s a bit like being resistant to oxygen.
I strongly suspect that you have been influenced by a charlatan. Not far from the drivel spoken by this Dr Ron Rosedale. He talks scientific rubbish, making assumptions and then leaping on from those assumptions to make assertions. It’s hard to spot if you haven’t had a medical scientific education, because it’s so glib it sounds true. He hasn’t quite grasped what a cytokine storm is, apart from making the observation that leptin is a cytokine. Not sure what he means by that. Leptins are hormones, cytokines aren’t. That rather undermines his credibility.
Losing weight is straightforward. Eat fewer calories than you expend. Easiest way is low carbing. Folk in America haven’t got fatter since the fifties because of food additives. They just consume twice as many calories as people used to in the fifties. It’s not food additives, it’s additional food. That, you might say, is screamingly obvious. But not to those who peddle leptin resistance as a cause. Leptins are just innocent bystanders dealing with all the food that comes in.
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