NEW HERE…PREDIABETIC..PLEASE HELP
Hello Everyone!!
I am new here, just joined and happy to have found your great group!!
This morning at 4:30 a.m. my sister, who was a diabetic for 40 years,
died….she passed on to a better life!!
I have cried a lot today, but also think I am prediabetic. I took a
test on a Defeat Diabetes Foundation website, and scored HIGH in the
high-risk category for diabetes. I weigh about 255 pounds, and get
tired too easily, sleepy too. So it is high time I started on a
diabetes prevention regimen!!
If anyone here can give me a clue, some literature, a really good book
to read to head me in the right direction of diabetes prevention and
management, PLEASE let me know about it.
My sister’s funeral will be coming up in the next 7-10 days.
Thanks for any help or leads you can give me!! I AM VERY GLAD TO BELONG
TO THIS GROUP!
P.S. I also have candidiasis.
Linda D. (sunsplash1904)
May 14th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
Dear Linda,
My thouights go out to you in you in honouring your sister’s memory
do positively, her Spirit will still be in contact I am sure. So sorry
you will her earthly presence, and at such a special time of year.
Diabetes prevention and candida prevention/fixing is the same.
Low carbohydrate diet. I strongly recommend the book "Dr BErnstein’s
Diabetes Solution" It will tell you prevention as well as management of
the issue - and you can use it whether you have diabetes or not. I wish
they had added "prevention" in the title - but it explains what is going
on in the metabolism very well - and covers insulin resistance which
with your weight you may well have - and how to overcome it.
Both need low carb diet - so more steak and egg instead of pancake and
cereal type breakfast:-)) And omelette with pizza topping inside instead
or pizza. Green pepper, tomato, onion and mushroom instead of bread or
potato. That kind of thing.
Candida EATS blood sugar. Keep your low (under 110 all times) and they
will die :-))
Hang in there - this ia all fixable:-))
Condolences in your sadness for your sister’s spirit having to move on.
Namaste,
Irene
May 15th, 2007 at 7:28 pm
Duncan
May 16th, 2007 at 11:55 pm
Duncan,
What’s your reasoning for me to join a candidiasis group? Do you think I have
candidiasis? You don’t even know me, and I don’t even know you. So what is
your reasoning on suggesting that I join the candidiasis group??
Linda
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May 17th, 2007 at 8:52 am
Robert,
She died of complications of diabetes…she was 81…she went into the
hospital, the ICU unit because of difficulty breathing and was found
to be in congestive heart failure, retaining too much fluid…they
tried dialysis, and we all were hoping it would work…she refused any
heroic measures…no resuscitation…she was a DNR (Do Not
Resuscitate). Her children never gave me and my brother the final
reason for her death, but it was probably heart failure, due to fluid
overload due to endstage renal failure. Hope that helps…that is all
I know. She did not want to be alive and bedridden, or in need of any
heroic measures, or be a burden to her family. She was a heroine
indeed, herself. I will always think of her that way. Hope that will
answer your question, Robert. Merry Christmas.
Linda
May 18th, 2007 at 2:16 am
Irene,
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR KIND THOUGHTS AND YOUR GREAT
INFORMATION!! I WILL GET THAT BOOK!! MERRY CHRISTMAS, AND HAPPY
NEW YEAR!!
Linda
May 18th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
Linda
You stated in your first post that you have candidiasis.
" P.S. I also have candidiasis. " this is taken from your post.
Sheila
Duncan,
What’s your reasoning for me to join a candidiasis group? Do you think I have
candidiasis? You don’t even know me, and I don’t even know you. So what is your
reasoning on suggesting that I join the candidiasis group??
Linda
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May 18th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
Linda:
There are lots of reasons for suggesting the EVERYBODY would
benefit by going on an anti-candida diet:
The anti-candida diet is more accurate for human biology than
most diabetic diets as it doesn’t allow the carbs that most
diabetic diets do. This is about what we evolved on.
And the diet curbs bowel dysbiosis and candida; it’s about what
our bowel ecology evolved on too.
Although I don’t know you the odds are heavily in my favour with
this guess, because more than 80% of diet-induced diabetics have
bowel dysbiosis, which promotes a slight rise in alkalinity where
there should be acidity in the bowel.
Dysbiosis is primarily due to an unnatural high-carb diet, often
triggered by a brief antibiotic program. Candida is very quick to
move in as the bowel alkalinity rises enough to allow it. In this
respect bowel candida can be seen as nothing more than an
extension of the dysbiosis.
This group has 4100 something people in it; you’ll be in good
company.
The candida diet also unavoidably results in optimal body mass
index by being biologically supportive without the downside of
all those carbs. It also corrects the vegan diet, which results
in overweight or emaciation due to small muscles. My next guess
is that you might benefit from this aspect of the candida diet
too.
Duncan
May 19th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
Duncan - I do not agree.
I would agree that an anti-inflamamtory diet is the best one for
anyone’s health, and I’d even agree that this would be a low
carbohydrate diet and that a low carb diet will fail to feed any Candida
that may eb present - as Candida eats high blood sugar - for breakfast,
lunch and supper.
But you can NOT reverse-engineer that statement to suggest everyone
needs that candida diet or any candida diet and I especially dislike the
nasty premise on the web page of the one you suggest, namely:
QUOTE
<<If you have no trace of a Candida problem (unlikely), you may still
benefit from a thorough intestinal clean-up and liver flush, as that
afforded by a Bentonite and Psyllium shakes, enemas, colonics, or herbal
cleansers………..>>
UNQIOTE
Wow!!!
Another way to write that is:
"Do join us and we will show you how to use sandpaper on your delicate
insides (psyllium), block your intestinal villi and microvilli
(absorption surfaces in the gut) so they can not absorb nutrients
(thanks to bentonite, a clay used in oil drilling), and give your body
severe chemical shock ("liver flush") onslaughts, etc etc ……"
I would STRONGLY advise against it.
IF someone has candida or suspects it, I would support a low
carbohydrate diet for that PROVIDED it is based on a very
anti-inflamamtory diet. By that I do not mean anti-inflammatory the way
drugs mess up the immune system. I am talking about cell level
inflammation - the inflammation that makes our cell walls susceptible to
attack at the microscopic level. If you have strong attack-resistant
cell walls (due to an anti-inflammatory diet for cell wall health), you
won’t get candida or other infections occurring.
Gut health is also very relevant in this and damaging it is not the way
to "fix" anything!
What fixes gut health has to do with anti-inflamamtory diet (from a cell
wall perspective, using multiple antioxidants and the right fatty acids)
and a LACK of gut surface irritants, and a glut of beneficial
bifidobacteria and lactobacilli - with plenty of rice bran
*fermentabvl;e* fiber to eat.
"Fermentability" is key. Fermentability means that the fiber is good
food for bifidobacteria and lactobacilli to convert from said food to
butyrate, propionate and acetate to support colonocyte health in the gut
and to support liver and other organ functions. There’s no substitute
for this fermentable fiber. You can leave out the good bacteria but not
the fermentable fiber. Rice bran is an excellent source, and is a
super-food for people (with no corn, wheat or gluten issues) as well as
providing the fermentable fiber (=food) neded by the right bacteria.
As for all that nonsense suggesting damaging your system with flushes,
colonics and other euphemisms for self-abuse, damaging your system was
never a way to make it healthier. If you feel any better when you stop
the damage - it’s only your body saying thank you for stopping the abuse.
An anti-inflamamtory diet on the other hand as above can not do any harm
- and uses the right nutrients to DIRECTLY make cell walls healthy
enough to be *supple*. It is suppleness that allows them to flex to let
toxins escape and nutrients enter. If your cell walls are all flexing
nicely, your body will work like a well tuned symphony orchestra and you
need no other "detox by force" approaches.
MY Candida diet would encourage lots of LOW carb high anti-inflamamtory
foods like:
Spinach, collards, green and red peppers, beet leaves, asparagus,
mushrooms, green beans, any other leaf greens and nori as the MAIN
vegetables - with limited (as they have more carbs) amounts of onions,
tomatoes, artichokes and fresh raw nuts.
Plus 1/2 cup a day of rice bran spread out.
ZERO products with flour or sugar or other high carb levels. The idea
here is to keep your blood sugar below 110 at ALL times including right
after eating. So. Skip beans and fruit, root veg, and sweetened drinks
or dairy.
Pig out on lean meat, fish, egg, the listed veg, extra virgin olive oil
(EVO), and lots of Vit E and fish oil supplements. Food yeast is also
okay as a source of protein, but limited as it promotes pH changes
unlike animal foods.
Eat ZERO trans fats - so no salad dressing unless you make it from EVO,
no partially hydrogenated anything (peanutbutter, margarine), no canola
oil (it is 5% transfat), no high omega-6 and no linolenic acid (so no
flax or other seed oils).
Also avoid inflammatory foods (wheat, corn, pork, soy).
No toxins (no nitrites, nitrates, no sodium-added foods, or other
preservatives or artificial colours. Eat prepared-from-scratch foods.
Use LOTS of herbs and spices and no salt. Candida needs salt.)
Candida will choke to death in one to 4 weeks depending how bad your
diet was :-))
When/If you reintroduce more carbs, do it S L O W L Y, and check your
blood sugar on the way. If it shoots up after meals, stay on low carb or
add exercise after meals to force it down fast as a matter of course.
That’s MY suggestion for anyone with candida.
No thanks. I am fussy about the *quality* of health related information
I use on my one and only bod
Happy Christmas - May 2007 bring greater health to us all here!
Namaste,
IRene