Hi welcome back to type 2 diabetes, where
we discuss everything about type 2 diabetes in a way that everyone can understand.
I’ve received a lot of questions about the best diet for type 2 diabetes.
But you need to understand that diabetes itself is not a yes or no disease.
It’s is a progresive multifactorial condition,where high blood sugar is just a result of all the
mess that’s going on in your body.
So, depending on which stage you are at, some things might work for you or not.
Now, we think that insulin is the one regulating the sugar in your blood, but beta cells do
not release insulin on their own.
They can’t just be like...ok we are bored let’s just release some insulin, they can’t
do that.
Glucose is the one that personally goes inside your beta cells and force the beta cells to
release insulin.
Glucose will get in, and close some channels that you can see on my previous video, and
make sure that insulin is released.
Then this insulin is used for glucose to get inside different cells.
And for a long time, your blood sugar will stay normal.
But later your body will start to resist this insulin.
And after many more years of all this…”a lot of glucose forcing the beta cells to produce
a lot of insulin, your pancreas, the beta cells...some of them will just die, some of
them will have broken legs.
Not broken legs, but they are impared.
They can’t produce or release insulin.
And at the end, your beta cell function will decline.
And you will be almost like type 1 diabetes, if you have type 2 diabetes for so long and
you didn’t take care of it.
So, when someone asks me what’s the best diet for type 2 diabetes, I will ask you:
Where are you in this timeline.
If you are someone who is here, and your beta cells are still ok, they are producing enough
insulin, maybe just reducing the amount of food you’re eating or adding some exercise
to improve your insulin sensitivity, will be enough for you.
But if you are here, maybe that’s not enough, because you don’t have enough insulin production.
So for you, maybe a low carb diet will work better.
Because you don’t want to bring even more stress to your pancreas with all these carbohydrates,
that change quickly to glucose.
So for you, maybe a ketogenic diet or a low carb diet or something like that might work
better.
But for someone who is here, with no beta cells, no insulin, even if I give you a million
dollars to come up with a diet that will work for you, it won’t work.
You probably need to take insulin.
So at the end of the day, when you are making a diet plan for patients with type 2 diabetes,
it has to be according to the patients.
That's why every endocrinologist will teach their patients how to manage their diabetes.
We call it diabetes self management.
Why?
Because an endocrinology is like a coach.
We can give you some instructions, but you are the one who is playing the game.
You are the only one who will know.
That’s why you need to measure your blood sugar if you have diabetes.
Well even if you don’t have diabetes.
If you are at risk for type 2 diabetes.
Check it here.
Start measuring your blood sugar.
For example, if you want to know if you can still eat rice...now before you eat, you measure
your blood sugar, and it’s 100.
After eating, after one hour, it goes to 300.
And then after two hours, maybe 150.
So do you think this is good for you?
No, but let’s say you changed half of the rice with vegetables, and then you measure
your blood sugar, on another day.
100, and after eating, 150.
After two hours,120.
Which one do you think works for you?
I don’t need to tell you which one works for you.
You know!
And it’s very easy nowadays to measure your blood sugar.
Just buy a glucose meter, or glucometer...I don’t know how you call it.
One drop of blood and you know your blood sugar.
You know back in the days...Do you know how doctors used to diagnose people with diabetes?
They used to check their urine.
They had to go like...hmm...It tastes like donuts, Diabetes!
Do you know how bad that was?
Like ...if we had to do that right now, a lot of us would quit medical school...don’t
judge.
There are more than 460 million people living with diabetes right now.
You’d quit too!
So, when I make videos on diet for type 2 diabetes, you have to check your blood sugar
to confirm if what I’m saying is good for you.
Not just me even other channels on youtube.
When you see this type of diet, that type of diet.
Make sure that you double check everything.
Don’t follow anyone blindly.
Not even myself.
This is just to improve your understanding.
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Be blessed!
Bye!