Author: MCS

Curious, Does using insulin when your pancreas is still functioning:

Does it add to your Pancreas’s out put of Insulin?

Does it replace your Pancreas’s out put of insulin?

If it replaces your Pancreas’s out put, how is this communicated to your Pancreas. How does your Pancreas know you have insulin and thus not secreate any of its own?
Beta cell rest, as refered to alot in this forum using insulin.

If it adds to your pancreas’s output, are you overloading your body with insulin, over coming insulin resistance? How would this attribute to Beta cell rest?

Thinking to much today.

Interesting read

Combining artificial sweeteners with the real thing boosts the stomach’s secretion of a hormone that makes people feel full and helps control blood sugar, new research shows.

It’s unknown whether this means anything for people’s health, but "in light of the large number of individuals using artificial sweeteners on a daily basis, it appears essential to carefully investigate the associated effects on metabolism and weight," conclude Dr. Rebecca J. Brown and colleagues from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.

Because artificial sweeteners are virtually carbohydrate-free, they have been thought not to have any effect on how the body handles glucose (sugar), the researchers explain.

But there’s some evidence that artificial sweeteners may trigger secretion of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1). GLP-1 is released from the digestive tract when a person eats as a "fullness" signal to the brain, curbing appetite and calorie intake.

To investigate further, Brown’s team had 22 healthy normal-weight young people take two glucose challenge tests. These tests, which measure how well the body metabolizes glucose, require a person to drink a sugar-filled beverage after fasting for several hours.

Ten minutes before consuming the "glucose load," study participants drank either roughly two-thirds of a diet soda containing an artificial sweetener or the same amount of carbonated water.

In both cases, the increase in a person’s blood glucose was the same. But the researchers did find that people secreted significantly more GLP-1 when they drank diet soda before the glucose challenge compared to when they drank carbonated water.

Studies in humans and animals have shown that when artificial sweeteners are consumed without carbohydrates they do not trigger GLP-1 secretion. "However, our data demonstrate that artificial sweeteners synergize with glucose to enhance GLP-1 release in healthy volunteers," Brown and colleagues report.

What this all means to the average diet soda drinker is not known, but the fact that the effect occurred with less than a single can of diet soda suggests it "may be relevant in daily life," the researchers say.

Future research is needed to understand the significance of enhanced GLP-1 secretion for health, they conclude, and studies should be conducted in people with Type 2 diabetes and other abnormalities in metabolism.

Diabetes Care, December 2009

Tried this last night, pretty darn good. BG was 102 going in 1hr PP was 105, so I can eat as much as I want.

This casserole was inspired from the cauliflower thread.

Brown 1-1.5lbs of hamburger meat, going to try chicken next, be sure to drain off the grease, good food is no reason to clog ones arteries.

Shread, (nearly wore my arm out) head of Cauliflower.

In a separate pan, I lightly fried, Green Pepper, Plablona pepper, Jalepena pepper, Onion, 2 sticks of celery chopped.

When pearled I added the shreaded white stuff, and a tomatoe that had been defunked and cut up.

Salt, Pepper, Cumin, Paprika, Anjuno spice

Stirred it all toegether and placed in a cass dish and covered with 4 cheese mex blend cheese shreads, baked at 350 for 30 minutes.

It was good.

FBG this am was 95, so no latent hit.

One of the advantages to keeping my grandkids is going to Golden Corral resturant. Theres so much to eat there we always find something for the youngins.

Last night, was Smoke Scallops, Baked Fish, Fried Fish, smoked Pork chops, Steamed Shrimp, Fried Shrimp (grandsons fav), Steak, Brussel Sprouts, Brocholi, full salad bar, full stir fry bar, so much I can’t list it all.

Then they usually have two desserts that are sugar free, me I went for the Blue Berry Pie, WOW it was good.

BG going in 82, 2hrs PP 92, and I ate so much I could barely breath. Golden Corral has always been good to me.

Here is a locator if you are interested, sounds like a commercial but I like to share.

Golden Corral

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So 4 weeks or so post open heart surgery at work so busy I can’t go home for lunch.

My darling wife says well I can bring you something to eat and your lunch time meds. She grabs one of those little zip locks and puts all of my supps in it. She’s a wonderful person.

Toasted peanut butter sandwitch on Arnolds thins and my meds. About 20 minutes later she decides to go. Almost immediately I am feeling bad, I mean really sleepy, can’t figure out whats wrong. I nearly stopped and called her. But opted for taking a Goody Powder, thought that would wake me up.

Had to go take the car and pick up some samples about 25-30 miles one way. It was a long trip.

Come dinner time I went home, still really sleepy and feeling drained. Opened the cabinet to get my dinner meds and noticed then that she had used the zip lock baggie that her Ambien was in. Yea I had taken an Ambien for lunch. It wasn’t until 6:00 or 7:00 that night before I was right again.

Looking back, all that I did that day, I was really lucky nothing bad happened.

Its never to late to learn something. Hide the Ambien.

This is a rant of sorts and a wake up for others. Sorry for the length……………………………..

Let me begin by saying I was a healthy child, healthy adult. I may have been to the doc 5 times in 30 yrs, unitl I turned 50yrs old. I was 6’1" 260lbs most of my life since 10th grade in high school and strong as an Ox, slightly over weight and ate everything and anything that was in front of me.

My wife and I walked 20 miles a week for years. She then had medical problems of her own and the walking subsided. It was during this time I think my BG started to climb. Doc says I had D for approx 3-5 years with out being Dx. All the rest happened in a short 18 months of my life, as I look back I still can’t believe this all took place.

It all started with a MRSA infection on my leg. I went into DKA twice, the Docs at the med center took my blood and said it was 250, this was after loosing fluids out of every orifice I own for 48 hrs before I could get to the med center. Of course denial is a powerful enemy and I brushed it off. I went thru 3 different antibiotics for a month. The yeast infection was some kinda fun, both ears, throat mouth, and yes I even had it where any man doesn’t want a yeast infection.

I finally went to the Doc after eating nothing but eggs and slim jims for a week and my BG was 350, and my BP was 220/110. He put me on MET and BP meds. Thats when the rest of the fun began.

We have a very small manufacturing process that requires lots of hand work. Needless to say I had Neuropthy so bad in my hands I had to tape popsicle sticks to my fingers and wear a wrist brace on both hands, couldn’t move them with out some really outrageous pain. I was a sight to see, Edward Scissors Hands comes to mind.

Two ear aches followed, one in my left ear, so severe I lost partial hearing. Weeks later in my right ear, (inner ear) this one gave me vertigo so bad I layed on the floor for hours just dry heaving after I lost everything in my stomach. Not long after that my back was tightening up, so I had my wife walk on my back as she had done for years. Got a broken rib out of the deal. Next was the chest pain I was having when we did try to walk. I endured the chest pain for 9 months or so. Again, denial is a powerful enemy. Wife convinced me to see a Cardiologist, and within 5 days I had open heart surgery. All this because I was to thick headed to see a Doc early on. I am a new man these days, denial has been beaten, I hope.

Any body else taking this stuff?

Looks pretty bad

Common Cordarone Side Effects
Hyperthyroidism 8%
International normalised ratio increased 8%
Condition aggravated 5%
Bradycardia 5%
Fall 5%
Pulmonary fibrosis 5%
Atrial fibrillation 4%
Dyspnoea 4%
Pneumonitis 4%
Interstitial lung disease 4%
Asthenia 4%
Hypothyroidism 3%
Malaise 3%
Pleural effusion 3%
Cardiac failure 3%
Renal failure 3%
Renal failure acute 3%
Lung disorder 3%
Torsade de pointes 3%
Anaemia 2%
Loss of consciousness 2%
Weight decreased 2%
Haemoglobin decreased 2%
Pyrexia 2%
Cardiac arrest 2%
Hypotension 2%
Pulmonary oedema 2%
Arrhythmia 2%
Balance disorder 2%
Cholestasis 2%

Monster-in-Law was thinking of me, I think. She decided to drive here about 100miles and bring some Diabetic foods with her, remember Father-in-Law was a D, so she brought what she used to feed him.

Chicken something, Chicken, cream of mushroom soup, who nows what else was in it. A layer of Ritz crackers on top with cheese. I was still at 130 3.5hrs later, and it tasted like sh_t.

Grape salad. Grapes, mixed in with what tasted like marshmallow cream, and cream cheese with a little sour cream, I stayed clear of this, only a taste and glance to her, that was good.

Orange salad, mandarin oranges, crushed pineapples in a SF jello, with SF cool whip on top. Stayed clear of this one as well.

Did I mention my Father-in-Law past away at an early age.

Problem was, she told my wife that these were all D friendly foods, so we almost got into an argument, but she is learning rapidly what I will, try, eat, and reject. I guess when the surgeon tells your wife, "your husbands Diabetes ate up his coronary arteries" your opinion on what to eat carries a little more weight these days.

Chicken something is going into the trash tonight.