Something to think about!

[Bubbleblower]

The brain consumes approximately 20% of the body’s glucose supply.

The brain glucose uptake is mainly insulin independent.

Insulin 2 is produced locally in the adult brain.


Mathematically speaking, if we use our brain twice as much our glucose should lower by 25%.

 

[Sarahp]

Explains why as t2 I have diabetic ischaemia in my brain then.

 

[EmmaL76]

Hmmm so I’m not diabetic , I just have a lazy brain.

 

[rebrascora]

My brain is obviously just very small with limited capacity. That said, I spent all day on Tuesday figuring out how to set up a new phone and install LibreLink and get it to work and when I eventually did, my levels had been remarkably well behaved from the stored data in the sensor during that 8 hours of mental acrobatics.... so maybe like @EmmaL76, if I engaged my brain more I could cure myself.

 

[DiabloT2]

....so is being brainy and diabetic mutually exclusive?....

 

[Bubbleblower]

I just have a lazy brain.

Speaking for myself that is exactly the case.

My brain is obviously just very small with limited capacity. That said, I spent all day on Tuesday figuring out how to set up a new phone and install LibreLink and get it to work and when I eventually did, my levels had been remarkably well behaved from the stored data in the sensor during that 8 hours of mental acrobatics.... so maybe like @EmmaL76, if I engaged my brain more I could cure myself.

May be things could add up, for example muscles also take up 80% of postprandial glucose.
On average. Imagine you can increase this to say 90% you got rid of 50% of the remaining postprandial glucose.
And you remind me of another great way to lower glucose, which is humor 🙂.

To find a cure would require stopping the immune attack. According to the latest state of the art the pancreas produces immunogenic proteines when it is under stress, which trigger that attack.

 

[trophywench]

Just tell everybody's pancreas not to get stressed as soon as they're born and give them really really helpful advice all their lives then eg There, there dear - you really can cope with this! and similar.

Yrs Mrs Sarky, Bedworth.