The Red Cross blood donation truck will be in town in a few days and it
has been on my calendar to be there and give blood.
What does turmeric do with regard to ferritin.? And yes, will get that
test.
No will not cut out meat and add grains. Have tried that
numerous times and variations. Definitely does not work for me all
kinds of bad things happen to me on that kind of diet..even small
amount of non gluten soaked and or sprouted grains over a few weeks or
months cause arthritis, tendonitis, hunger.....nope not going there
again.
there probably are many other factors, such as chemicals in our
water supply and lots of other things that throw off our hormonal
balance. But lowering carb intake certainly helps me and many others.
Which is not to say that there aren't some that would be helped by
you ideas. I just haven't met anyone like that.
Ellen
On 8/31/09, Heather Twist <HeatherTwist@
> I'm not Bert either, but I have been looking into this some.
>
> There is some relationship between a diet high in meat
> and T2 diabetes. Heresy, I know!
>
> The relationship, though, seems to have to do with ferritin
> levels. Pork, chicken, and fish don't raise ferritin levels.
> Beef does, esp. in diets that aren't high in phytates or
> turmeric. And it becomes a problem mainly after menopause,
> for women.
>
> There is a huge link between high ferritin levels and T2.
> Donating blood lowers insulin resistance. Of course the
> blood bank won't accept blood if you actually are sick
> (or for a number of other reasons). Which puts people
> in a bind: ferritin levels don't have to be out of bounds
> for this to be a problem.
>
> If you want to experiment with this, you can cut out
> red meat and esp. organ meats from your diet, eat
> more whole grains (GF oatmeal?), take turmeric caps.
> And or get a ferritin/TIBC test.
>
> But my basic take is that "carbs" are not at the root
> of the diabetes problem. The US is one of the few countries
> where ferritin levels are HIGH (anemia is the problem in
> most countries). Japanese eat a LOT of simple carbs ...
> rice ... but most of their protein comes from fish.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:36 AM, Ellen Ussery<ellen.ussery@
>> Two years ago I started Fast-5 for the first time. I loved it. Felt
>> more energy, more even moods, easily lost the weight I needed to lose
>> at the rate of 2 pounds a week. And it fit easily into my life. I
>> simply ate lunch and breakfast and was not terribly strict about
>> whether my window was 5 hours occasionally 7.
>>
>> It also lowered my small dense LDL (tested directly) and reduced
>> greatly my already low CRP
>>
>>
>> But I also found at the end of 6 months, that I had the first higher
>> than 100 blood sugar at the doc's. My blood sugar levels have remained
>> above 100 since that time ( a year and a half). I tried Dr.
>> Schwarzbine'
>> strict with my carbs as per Dr. Bernstein (The Diabetes Solution)
>> But haven't gotten them down below 100. They are not high enough to be
>> diagnosed as diabetic, but that is only because I am very strictly low
>> carb. But if you think about the arbitrary way they assign that
>> diagnosis it is rather silly. Either you have some inability to
>> metabolize carbohydrate, or you don't. IMO it is like being a little
>> bit pregnant!
>>
>> Because of this I have talked about blood sugar issues a number of
>> times here. I have wondered about my first high fasting blood sugar
>> was caused by doing fast-5 or if it was a coincidence. What was the
>> relation between Fast-5 and my blood sugar issues.
>>
>> My most recent theory is that I had some kind of insulin, blood sugar
>> irregularity all my life which manifested in my constant hunger, and
>> mood and energy swings. For at least ten years before Fast-5 I was
>> probably insulin resistant. I had the signs: a new pattern of
>> overweight much of it around the middle and I could not lose it . I
>> did not have high tryglycrides but I did have high LDL I probably had
>> high post meal blood sugars all that time too, but had so much
>> circulating insulin that my fasting blood sugar was below 100 all that
>> time. So finally getting the insulin levels down did not *cause* the
>> higher blood sugars...it just revealed the other aspect of my problem
>> . And this is a good thing.
>>
>> Ellen
>>
>>
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