geoffreylevens wrote:... All FREE!!! What a blessing!!!!! My hat is off to Dr McDougall, Mary McDougall, Jeff Novik, and all the wonderful people who post their experiences, suggestions and share their knowledge. May blessings rain down forever on the lot of 'em!!!!!!
You made some good points! Best of all, our hosts do not seem to feel offended and still let it post when somebody disagrees or even not follows their diet.
As someone said it is not as important what exactly you believe in - rather WHY you believe...
geoffreylevens wrote:Oh, almost forgot this part. As initially suggested by TanneryGulch, and my doctor agrees (as so do I) the cause of my sugar issue is likely something like (if not exactly) sugar insensitivity not insulin resistance. I for sure have zero IR (from McDougall diet). No matter how high my bg goes (225 is record test so far and that was after about 4 cups of potatoes and a cup of beans testing to see if vinegar would work as "advertised". NOT) it comes right back down in an hour or so. So I have no IR and obviously make plenty of insulin. Just that my body does not read normal fluctuations of sugar as needing any control. My control mechanisms do not start to kick in until I am well outside the normal levels. So being further blessed w/ some great resources in this regard, testing is under way to figure out where that is happening or rather not happening in my body. ...
Your case seems to be similar to curve 6 on the following graph: http://www.ptbo.igs.net/~stanb/Abrahamson_6hGTT.gif
This is called "dysinsulinism". Does your BG also drops to very low levels after 3h? This is indeed different from a classical IR (curve 2). There are other factors than insulin and IR, that may influence glucose metabolism, you may want to look at magnesium level, and vitamins C and D3 levels (D3 governs over calcium transport and calcium, magnesium as well as vit C are necessary for glucose metabolism). D3 but not D2, at least not to the same extent, watch out! I am not an expert in biochemistry, I am only suggesting what you may want to look at, to test and study in more details. I hope it helps.
Stan (Heretic)