Low carb and diabetes

Here you will find my comment on post at Jimmy Moore’s about low carb and diabetes

amywolfe87 posted:

I lost 18 pounds thanks to low carbing but my nurse is worried as my BMI plunges. She thinks I need to eat more carbs (I’m currently between 80 – 120 grams a day). My constipation is also being blamed to low carb. Is there actually a connection on it? Has anyone else had this problem? Thanks.

My response:

Hi amywolfe87,

Janknitz makes a lot of  sense in what she says and I too would advocate reading Dr. Bernstein’s Diabetic Solution; if nothing else, just to understand what you’re body has been going through and to have some scientific  back up as you start to take charge of your health and needed to talk to medical professionals about it.

In addition to what Jan has said, I would also encourage you to exercise more; in fact exercise is probably the main factor that will help a recovering diabetic to overcome their problem in the fastest way possible. It really is one of the most powerful and quickest ways to lower your resistance to insulin and leptin.

The other advantage of exercise is it will get everything moving including your digestive tract and  in addition to the probiotics suggested by Jan, I would also suggest that you do a short course on digestive enzymes as well as that would balance out the work of the probiotics in a way that probiotics can’t do on their own.

Hope that helps,

Mark