Might as well toast up your tingly toes and spread jam on them.
We’re told the tingly toes of diabetic neuropathy can’t be stopped. They are progressive – or are they?
It’s all about examining what you truly believe. I’ve had patients that loved bread more than their own bodies. They were willing to sacrifice their nerves, kidneys, and retinas on the altar of sandwiches.
Seriously, that’s what they believed. Completely unwilling to give up bread to stop the progress of their diabetic neuropathy.
Okay, I understand food addiction is a real thing, but is it possible we’re just not grasping the gravity of the situation.
“I just can’t get full unless I have some bread.”
Ummm. Could you get full if you had a couple more steaks?
I’m serious here. The steaks would be healthier for a person with type 2 diabetes.
The difference between bread and a candy bar.
It’s an amazing digestive process. We eat bread (or pasta, or breakfast cereal, or *insert high carbohydrate food here) and as soon as it’s in your mouth, the amylase begins breaking down the bonds holding the starch together.
Enzymes from your pancreas begin working on the starches again when they enter your small intestine, breaking it down into maltose. Finally, the enzyme maltase breaks maltose down into two glucose molecules that the intestines absorb into your blood.
The other two monosaccharides that are absorbed are fructose and galactose – but since your body can only use glucose for energy, these too are covered to glucose in the liver.
So the only energy you get from bread (pasta, etc.) is in the form of glucose—the one metabolic source of energy can actually be TOXIC to type 2 diabetics.
How much is too much?
As with any metabolic problem, type 2 diabetics will have a threshold after which the body cannot cope well. For some, it’s 80g, others it’s 50g, and for still others, it can be as low as 20g.
That one slice of bread is 15g. If your goal is 20g per day, that leaves no room for any other carb-containing foods, so it becomes about planning.
For some, it’s a strange idea – setting a goal limiting carbohydrates each day. But hear this – It’s the only method that has proven to REVERSE type 2 diabetes over 60% of the time. Contrast that with the typical diabetic guidelines that reverse it 0.1% of the time.
The standard guidelines do have the benefit of keeping you on drugs for the rest of your life, so that’s good for big Pharma. Not so great for you or your pocketbook.
There’s far more benefit in setting a goal, and then tracking what you eat. “If you bite it, you write it.”.
Here’s something to try:
Set a goal of 30g per day and work toward sticking to it for 30 days. Only for 30 days. If you don’t feel better, lose weight, and need fewer drugs – then just go back to what you were doing. You lose nothing except 30 days of sandwiches.
Oh, and make sure you add some of your favourite fatty foods that you’ve been avoiding:
There’s plenty more free information here on this blog about the clinically proven method for stopping and reversing diabetic neuropathy and the tingly toes it causes.
Heck, I even wrote a book about it.
You. Can. Heal.
Dr. Cam.
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