What Your Microbiome Wants for Dinner
That&#x27;s an interesting article, for sure. It also applies to what I&#x27;ve been diagnosed with as well. Type 2 diabetes.<p>I&#x27;m applying data science to this disease. It&#x27;s what I do, and can afford. Unfortunately, my doctor thinks that pushing pills is an adequate response, which I heartily doubt.<p>The more I understand this disease, it has to do with either: pancreas is dead (type 1), or your glucose response&#x2F;insulin response is badly out of whack due to a metabolic carbohydrate problem (type 1.5&#x2F;2). I was diagnosed with a fasting glucose of 161 and a1c of 7.1 . Met with doctor, and talked about it shortly. Was prescribed metformin and testing kit with 100 strips. I am currently not taking any drugs.<p>I keep reading that the problem is carbohydrate overload to my genetics. Can I validate or invalidate that? Indeed. I was told to test blood sugar 1x a day for 3 months. That&#x27;s inadequate, as it&#x27;s only an instantaneous sample. What about after I eat? What about when I go to bed and wake up? Can I deduce anything about my pancreas and its slow and fast response to glucose? Indeed.<p>I&#x27;ve started testing myself 4x every meal(1 before meal, 3 half hour increments after meal ends), and 1 when I wake up and go to bed. Turns out that yes, carbs has, in my body a direct correlation to my blood sugar. And it&#x27;s pretty stark.<p>Now, if my hypothesis is correct, I can control my blood sugar purely with carb counting and eating to the glycometer. If after 2 weeks this does not show significant changes in my basal glucose rate, as well as weight losses, then I will go on drugs.<p>However, I already have 2 good side effects: I&#x27;m not craving for food any longer, and I no longer overheat. I&#x27;m not sure how to classify those effects, but not being slave to extremely annoying bodily issues does seem very beneficent.