MY KETO JOURNEY

The information below is what I found about Keto and why I chose Keto to get my life back. Please do talk to your doctor who will mostly be against it for one reason or another. The photo in the header is there for a reason, forbidden fruit and high carbs.

I'm quite new to Keto since January 2021. As a person who has suffered from type II diabetes I was shocked to see the main cause of diabetes wasn't all my fault but the extra carbs I had been eating over a period of 15 years that had been recommended by the Eatwell Guide that didn't seem to understand how insulin worked and overtime this hormone was slowly killing me as I became more resistant to insulin.

What I found from doctor Google In short, the main job of insulin was fat storage after it had packed away glycogen the energy needed in your liver and muscles the surplus was stored as fat around your body. As we are near-constantly eating our body doesn't give up its fat store as it has more food to pack away.

The other big problem for us all is the amount of junk food we consume along with all the processed food that will only want you wanting more which goes with gaining weight. Today I have a simple rule if the product has more than two items I don't buy or eat plus I try to eat as my grandmother ate. The only exception if I am making food like Meatloaf I know what's in it. Give it a try it's very filling

In my twenties, we didn't have as much processed food and my body could cope so never thought I had a problem, but as I aged I was becoming more insulin resistant without me knowing the signs until the age of 60 I was diagnosed with type II with an HbA1c of 76 this was off the scale and slowly killing me. This wasn't fully explained to me or I didn't quite understand the seriousness of my situation. The food they advised I now realise was quite wrong with the use of low fat spread, veg oils, they further went on to recommend Starchy food should make up just over a third of the food we eat. Choose higher fibre wholegrain varieties, such as wholewheat pasta and brown rice, or simply leave skins on potatoes. This recommendation is still given out today and is so wrong for a person suffering from type II diabetes IMHO as it will only make the problem worse. My doctor even put me on an awful medication called Xenical that passes any fat through my system.

I wasn't aware that a lot of the comfort foods were loaded with MSG that gave my body a hit of dopamine which had been triggered by eating each mouthful and when they were gone I wanted more due to the fact my Insulin levels rising taking me further down the line of being type II diabetic and worse still a fatty liver.

Over the next few years, I did get my HbA1c down to a more healthy 42 which is in remission and I also got my weight down to a trim 89kg from the start of 144kg by diet and going to the local gym and doing HIIT twice a week. But the gym only accounted for about 25% of the weight loss, the balance of 75% was diet. But over the next few years, my weight started to climb back again to my set point. My fault 100% as I was eating bread, potatoes and sweets till I was back near to my max weight at 125.6kg my feet were swelling, my eyesight was a little blurred with an HbA1c of 56.

I then watched a video from Doctor Berg in America he knocked the ball right out of the park and turned a light on how to treat type II diabetes. The problem he wasn't a medical doctor but a qualified Chiropractor but had worked in weight loss for some 29 years. He had lots of online information on keto diets and gives you the information better than any medical doctor I have spoken to over the years.

I also found medical doctors saying Keto was bad and dangerous to our health. I noted a lot of their information was flawed and couldn't understand why they would go on film with such misinformation. There was another Doctor in Australia that gave good advice and the benefits of doing Keto along with intermittent fasting. Dr Paul Mason has quite a few of his lectures online. He stated that prior to one of his lectures he handed out a test/questionnaire to the doctors. When they were handed back the marks were 9 out of 22 questions were correct. His lecture " Are you smarter than your doctor?" The lecture is one hour long but very informative and worth the time.

25th Feb I had a return call from a doctor who said whatever you do DONT DO THE KETO DIET as It will give you a fatty liver! Either the research is wrong or she had grabbed the wrong end of the stick. The information that Dr Paul Mason gave in his lectures on the keto diet will help reduce a fatty liver and also reduce your insulin levels. So ended that day feeling quite angry with the advice I had been given and remembering the advice given when I was first diagnosed with type II

I had spent some time listening to doctors around the world. Dr Paul Mason with this lecture Are you smarter than a Doctor? What your doctor doesn't know about nutrition. https://youtu.be/sNz2gWqL0Ng watch the video and you will see why it has that tile. Then we have Dr Sarah Hallberg who gave this great lecture https://youtu.be/da1vvigy5tQ reversing type 2 diabetes. there are so many lectures from medical doctors.

From that day I stopped eating carbs as much as I could and ate full fat and frying food was back on the table. Now my daily intake would be 20% carbs 55% fat and 25% protein. I also took the advice on intermittent fasting and was amazed at how quickly I started to lose weight and my blood sugars dropped like a stone to near normal. within 5 weeks my HbA1c was redone via a blood test and came back at 52 mmol/l which is still high but going down. I waited 90 days and requested another A1c which came back at 45 mmol/l those that understand those numbers will know 48 mmol/l is the diagnostic cut off for type II

I had started my Keto journey in January 2021 and got a A1c reading of 45 mmol/l in May 2021 so Keto worked in just four months for me

With the keto diet and intermittent fasting your body converts fat, instead of sugar, into energy-burning ketones. The diet had been created in the 1920s as a treatment for epilepsy. It's been found a ketogenic diet will improve blood glucose (sugar) levels while also reducing the need for insulin made by your body.

I can hear you say yes but that's not the information given in the UK. I also downloaded a BMJ report www.bmj.com/content/bmj/372/bmj.m4743.full.pdf that states On the basis of moderate to low certainty evidence, patients adhering to a low carbohydrate diet for six months might experience diabetes remission without adverse consequences.

In short, why not give it 30 days and see how you get on. Please talk to your doctor and let them know. To make sure I wasn't making things worse I bought a blood pressure machine and a finger prick glucose meter that I use 3 times a day. After seven days I took myself off the prescribed 500mg of SR metformin as my blood sugars were getting much lower along with my blood pressure 117 sys 80 dia it was before I started 135 sys 90 dia. The weight is coming off and best of all I don't feel hungry even when fasting.

In June of 2021, I asked my doctor if I could restart taking SR metformin 500 as I had seen some research that the drug has other benefits than controlling type II The main reason I took myself off was my body was becoming resistant to the drug.