Friday, July 30, 2021

Take aways from Dr Dale Bredesen's podcast on fasting yesterday

 1- Cinnamon to lower glucose link

I may have reversed my insulin resistance when I lost 80 lbs over a year with a low calorie diet and exercise.  However I gained back 50 lbs over the following year after my marriage in June 2007 despite 2.5 hours exercise a day.  I ate more fruit because I thought it was a healthy form of glucose. Problem is I ate too many cherries. 

Started Atkins diet   link.

Despite losing the 50 lbs I had gained back and exercising I was still insulin resistant. 

Listening to Dr Bredesen's podcast on fasting with his co-author and AZ survivor I was surprised that they thought I could still reverse my insulin resistance. 

I hoped that might be true is if got down to my prior low weight after the wedding of 200 lbs. I hoped to lose enough central belly fat that I could improve my adiponectin level.  That has not happened. There is a final role of fat that I just can't seem to lose. 

Role of central fat that seems permanent link

I suspect if I get cancer I might lose that role of fat but I will also suffer from severe sarcopenia (loss of muscle)

I have been in nutritional ketosis since I started Atkins around 2015.  My levels are almost always over 0.5 and lately they are usually over 2.0 AM. 

In the End of Alzheimer's Program on page 32:

"Restoring insulin sensitivity can be achieved by 

1-KetoFLEX 12/3 diet 

2- Key nutrient ZINC

3- Exercise

4- Reduce stress

5- Treat sleep apnea (I'm on CPAP)

And if needed:

6- Berberine

7- Cinnamon

8- Alpha lipoic acid: started a couple of months ago

9- Chromium picolinate

"Virtually all of us can become insulin sensitive using this approach"

I find this to be a very bold claim.

I have done most of the above.  

Now I am willing to add cinnamon. 



















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