Reddit reviews Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution: The Complete Guide to Achieving Normal Blood Sugars

You might find dr. Bernstein's low/no carb diabetic treatment to be worth looking into. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B004QZ9PC4/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1491489904&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=dr+bernstein+diabetes+solution

Note, the diabetic nutritionist world generally dislike him. He is a type 1 diabetic physician and engineer. He is also one of the oldest living type 1s.

Do not go back to that endo if you can help it! Even if you were not taking care of yourself at all that kind of attitude and disrespect is uncalled for. And not how you teach anyone anything.

All diabetics live with the reality of the possibility of complications and higher risks of other health issues. It is NOT your fault, it's diabetes. That said you can always take better care of your health no matter who you are!

Check out Dr. Bernstiens book He's advocates an extemely low carb diet but he was able to reverse some serious complications after a lifetime of being T1D and I find comfort in that.

Not that it matters right now but if your bgl is getting that high I have doubts you're type 2 and not 1 or 1.5.

So what can you do right now? Depends on many things. If you have weight to lose, lose it. If you eat carbs, now no more. If you do need insulin (for any reason) a vial of humalin R can be had at walmart for $25/vial without a prescription. Not perfect but it beats dying. In your situation, I would very much read this book.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004QZ9PC4/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

If you can't spare the cash due to income let me know, I'll PP you the money for it.

http://www.amazon.com/Dr-Bernsteins-Diabetes-Solution-ebook/dp/B004QZ9PC4/

Highly recommend picking up that book. From what I've heard about it, it goes into an extreme level of detail regarding using a ketogenic diet to treat diabetes.

As an aside, the 1-star reviews for that book are hilarious.

>There is no one that will never eat snacks or cookies or desserts and to promote this as an expectation is unrealistic.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^.

>One may as well stop living. Really did not think this book was wonderful for the average diabetic. Not many people will eat the way that is indicated in the book

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^.

>I didn't even read it. Too complicated.

Not a diabetic, myself, but I would recommend you check out Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes book as you start your journey.

http://www.amazon.com/Dr-Bernsteins-Diabetes-Solution-ebook/dp/B004QZ9PC4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1380593121&sr=8-1&keywords=dr.+bernstein%27s+diabetes+solution

He's a lifelong type-1 himself, and he became a medical doctor (he was an engineer) when he figured out that the usual medical advice of "eat lots of carbs and cover it with lots of insulin" didn't make any sense.

Hey there! I usually recommend all Type 1 Diabetics who are interested in going low carb to read Dr Richard Bernsteins book "Diabetes Solution". A good rule of thumb is to lower insulin dosages right when you start low carb/keto and then scale in either direction needed. Be prepared with lots of glucose tablets should there be too many miscalculations in the beginning.

I agree with the comments on going on a low carb, hi fat diet such as keto to manage T2 diabetes. I've been on it 3 years and have had blood glucose levels that are non-diabetic norms since te first couple of weeks.

Lots of good info on the r/keto faq on how to do keto. Lots of good recipes over at www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/recipes

In case your Dad gets some pushback against keto being "pseudoscience", here are some peer reviewed research papers that support keto:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0899900714003323

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1325029/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2633336/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3826507/

http://spectrum.diabetesjournals.org/content/25/4/238

:edit to add some good books for starters, all science and evidence based.

Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004QZ9PC4/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

The Real Meal Revolution: The Radical, Sustainable Approach to Healthy Eating -
https://www.amazon.com/Real-Meal-Revolution-Sustainable-Approach-ebook/dp/B00RTY0O7O/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1519585318&sr=1-2&keywords=noakes

The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living - https://www.amazon.com/Art-Science-Low-Carbohydrate-Living-ebook/dp/B005CVV2AE/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1519585452&sr=1-1&keywords=jeff++volek

Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It - https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Get-Fat-About-ebook/dp/B003WUYOQ6/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1519585485&sr=1-1&keywords=taubes

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He's a T1, became an MD specifically to manage his disease, and his practice is working with DM.

You know that your insulin has to be matched to your carb intake, so when you reduce carbs a bunch, you need to carefully reduce your insulin to match it. Otherwise you go hypo. He talks about how to do that.

Never mind the weigh loss... you need to get that A1C down. The weight will come off almost accidentally once you do that.

Get the ebook so you can read it tonight.

Yes, it's an excellent dietary treatment for T1D if it is done properly. The book, Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution: The Complete Guide to Achieving Normal Blood Sugars, by a doctor with T1D would be a good place to start.

http://www.nutritionjrnl.com/article/S0899-9007(14)00332-3/fulltext

https://www.amazon.com/Dr-Bernsteins-Diabetes-Solution-Achieving-ebook/dp/B004QZ9PC4/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1493137340&sr=1-1&keywords=dr+bernsteins+diabetes+solution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNZsfluh0Uo

Don't start keto until you know what you are doing. All Diabetics should discuss this with their Doctors first as you will likely need to reduce your meds.

The key to using a slower-acting insulin like R while avoiding any spikes is a very low-carb diet, which essentially means meats and green veggies. Have you heard of Dr. Bernstein? He's a T1 doctor who literally wrote the book on low-carb and T1, and has a whole youtube series about it.

If you're serious about making the switch and taking care of yourself, I would highly recommend looking into this guy. Been life-changing for me.

Dr. Richard K. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution I bought this initially because I wanted to read the chapter about digestive problems, of which I had a lot. Subsequently, I realized that I had diabetes, according to his definition which, sensibly, is much different than that of the American Diabetes Association.

Ignatius Brady. What is Fat For? Re-thinking Obesity Science. Alright, this is not a "pro-keto" book, so I guess it can't be on the list. But I heard about if from Michael Eades's review on his blog. The author Brady, like Eades before he retired, has a medical practice specializing in weight loss. Patients don't visit him until they've failed to lose weight repeatedly on their own. He keeps up with the science but he also knows that, no matter what the science says, if patients can't comply with a regimen, it's not very good. He has read Good Calories, Bad Calories and takes it seriously. He agrees that keto outperforms low fat but he ultimately rejects it because he has found that it creates too many noncompliance problems (I think Jason Fung might have a similar conclusion, please correct me if I am wrong). This book turned me on to the Protein Leverage Hypothesis, which blew my mind because of its scope and explanatory power.

I actually just finished reading the first half of this book[1] (the second half are recipes.) This book was written by a Type 1 diabetic who originally was an engineer. His wife, a doctor, purchased one of the first blood glucose monitors only available to doctors at the time. He used it to develop the diet laid out in that book (and a much more comprehensive book about diabetes management all together.[2]) He eventually went and got a medical degree so his findings could be given some weight.

His plan is effectively 30g of carbs a day, split 6-12-12 (breakfast, lunch, dinner). He goes into all the "stealth" sugars in food and how to avoid them, along with some specific products he mentions that he's found useful personally. The over arching idea is the Law of Small Numbers, meaning the fewer carbs you eat, the less it affects your body. More importantly, the less insulin's variable effectiveness impacts your blood sugar levels.

I personally am seeing positive weight and glucose level changes in my life because I follow a low carb diet as outlined in his book.

[1]http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000SEHPTC

[2]http://www.amazon.com/Dr-Bernsteins-Diabetes-Solution-Achieving-ebook/dp/B004QZ9PC4

You might want to take a look at Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution[https://smile.amazon.com/Dr-Bernsteins-Diabetes-Solution-Achieving-ebook/dp/B004QZ9PC4/ref=sr_1_17?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525570151&sr=1-17&keywords=diabetes]. He's a T1 and has applied strict carb restriction with great success in the management of his diabetes. Originally educated in engineering, Bernstein re-trained as an MD to try and get medical professionals to take him seriously with respect to his approach to tackling diabetes. No small feat as he wasn't a young guy when he entered med school.

The hot is probably an odd option but there are very safe drinks for diabetics. I'm a believer in Dr Bernstein's recommendation of saccharin as safe and effective.

Dr. Dr. Bernstein (of the Diabetes Solution book) observed that almost 100% of his diabetic patients had psoriasis.

He didn't argue that psoriasis is caused by the sort of metabolic issues that fasting and low-carb diets tend to improve, but it does make one wonder.

As I said below, I suggest you keep your head down. However, another great resource for the keto diet is Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution. Dr. Bernstein is a Type 1 diabetic himself, and was diagnosed in the 40's when diabetes treatment was not very good. He practically developed the use of personal glucometers, then went to medical school. He advocates a diet very low in carbohydrate intake, which is what we would call keto or adkins. Here's a link to the book. They have it in Kindle format, too. Good stuff. http://www.amazon.com/Dr-Bernsteins-Diabetes-Solution-Achieving-ebook/dp/B004QZ9PC4/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1398747361&sr=1-1&keywords=dr.+bernstein%27s+diabetes+solution

P.S. The reason I found it is because my daughter is a Type 1, and I plan to implement Dr. Bernstein's program with her this summer.