Hello,
I try to make it short. Be me, 3 years ago Hba1c 6.7, and very high Triglycerides (>1400)… Diagnosed with Metabolic Syndrom and new onset T2D. My son is T1D, so the world is not new to me, didn’t want to go the syringe route. So I cut sugar, went somewhat lowcarb for 2 years, and be more active (long distance walking). Loose 10kg of weight.
Fallback sometimes to sugar consumption (excessive). Had enough, went strict Keto January last year.
Immediately shed 20kg in 2 months, all the benefits, hba1c now 5.3.
Ok cool, but I think it is becoming contra productive. Indeed my fasting bloodglucose is eleveated, also throughout the day, my level aren’t low. I do strict keto, a lot of meat and fatty cheese, eggs.
My fasting Insulin one year ago, after two months of keto was 11 μU/mL.
Now I am consistently over 15 μU/mL, despite one year keto “healing”, so worse of.
I understand the concept of glucose sparing or physiological insulin resistance, and that it isn’t bad, and I’m very convinced that it is the case with me and that I’m fat adapted, as my endurance is very high and I’m never really getting tired, and ketones are generally low too, despite near zero carb.
Yet I’ve to ask myself if it useful at this point, isn’t it more productive to be flexible, so my muscle starts taking glucose in again better and doesn’t ignore it.
My goal is to actually lower my insulin, so for me it looks like introduction of carbs may help to exit glucose sparing and go on with my journey of improving, or should I just continue keto?
Thanks for reading