So reading two books in managing insulin resistance and diabetes.
1) Why We Get Sick
2) Mastering Diabetes
Both are pretty recent. Written in last 2 or 3 years.
They go in somewhat different directions. Why We Get Sick wants you to focus on avoiding seed oils and refined carbs. But animal meat is OK. In fact Ben Bikman says protein from animal meat is just superior to plant based protein. Mastering Diabetes wants you to shift towards a plant based diet.
More reading to do.
Just finished reading "Diabetic Code" and "Why We Get Sick" These two books should be required reading for ALL health providers. You might question - ALL DOCTORS? Sure because so many things cause insulin resistance. Crazy good reading, some gets a little deep, but just keep going. Hyperinsulinemia is real.
"Mastering Diabetes" meh, not so much. Not bad for a few ideas though. Too much fructose if you really are trying to heal your liver. I'm not going full vegan, does not work for me.
My next A1c test will be in February. We shall see, but my insulin response is much much less lazy. I can regularly get readings below 100. 92-94 and even after a decent meal, with some carbs, 130-140. If I go 150, I can pull back to 115 in 60 minutes or so. My body was not doing this before I had no below 100 readings in a VERY long time.
Most importantly I know the trigger foods. I know the borderline food.
Cravings have dropped way way off.
I became fairly fat adapted, so I dialed back on the fats.
I've gone to two meals a day one at noon or so, the other done before 6PM. I eat a hefty lunch and dinner, hardly hungry sometimes, which is great.
Just as important, if not more I upped my resistance training, increased weight just a bit, go to failure. I walk hard as much as I can after I eat, snow lately, PITA.