LCHF for type 1 diabetes?
in Type 1 diabetes 
Lots of people realize that low-carb works wonders for type 2 diabetes. But what about type 1 diabetes?
This is a completely different kind of disease, and yet many people find that the same LCHF diet works really well for type 1 diabetes too, dramatically lowering insulin requirements and allowing a much more stable and easily controlled blood sugar. And it actually makes perfect sense.
We interviewed two people with type 1 diabetes on the recent cruise who have revolutionized their health eating LCHF. These interviews will be posted as soon as they are edited. We’re also going to write much more on the topic later.
If you’re interested in reading more right away check out this new blog post by Dr. Jason Fung: LCHF for Type 1 Diabetes. Or read my earlier posts on it.
LCHF for Beginners
How to Lose Weight
Diabetes – How to Normalize Your Blood Sugar
I'm a type 1 diabetic and on LCHF and first time since diagnosis my blood sugars is fantastic, no more rolercoaster! Less tired and no more feeling low in mood ( felt like that after both having highs and lows) feel like iv'e been released from the diabetic prison I've been in for the past 10 years, I feel in control of my life!!!!!
I followed standard advice for 2 months, then switched to LCHF/Bernstein approach in December 2012. The results have been nothing short of remarkable, My glycaemic variability reduced dramatically and I have maintained an A1c in the low 5's with minimal hypo's ever since. My insulin dose was cut in half.
I have easily maintained my weight at a BMI of 21. I experience no hunger and I have loads of energy. (I cycle on average 100km per week.)
I was interviewed on Australian radio about this in 2013 http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/healthreport/low-carbohy...
Over the last year I have been advocating LCHF for my patients in my General Practice but I was a bit nervous about T1D because of the need to lower insulin doses. Imagine my surprise when a T1D came in and said he had followed MY advice which he had got second hand from his wife and cut his carbs. He then went on to say he was on a third of his original insulin dose, had lost weight and he felt fantastic. He had been to diabetic clinic and they were really pleased with him and his HBA1C but they were alarmed when he said he had done it through LCHF. Since then I have advocated LCHF for T1Ds as long as they follow Dr Bernstein's advice.
Next we need to get this knowledge through to the stragglers.
This I find fascinating. My first reaction was, how do these people sleep at night? My second reaction was, they must be stupid. LCHF makes perfect sense in terms of metabolic knowledge and they had empirical clinical results staring them on the face. But these are not stupid people. They are highly educated, intelligent, presumably concerned and caring. So my third reaction is, wow, the blinding effect of ideology is remarkably powerful. Ancel Keys, George McGovern, vegans, the sugar industry and especially pharmaceuticals have done such a remarkable job of inculcating an anti-fat ideology that concerned, intelligent, highly educated professionals cannot see the obvious due to confirmation bias and denial.
It's depressing that such a question is even raised, much less as an implied novel development. A century ago, what we now call LCHF was THE treatment for diabetes of all kinds. This was before the development of exogenous insulin. Even more recently, Dr. Bernstein has been advocating a protocol that includes LCHF for some 17 years now.
So what happened? Having a therapy that requires one to humbly petition a monopoly gate-keeper (getting a prescription from a licensed MD, preferably for a patented potion) is obviously better for business than just writing down the title of a recipe book.
http://www.archive.org/stream/diabeticcookeryr00oppeiala#page/n7/mode...
That's 1917, folks.
And anyone who thinks that this sort of professional corruption is not still going on has not been paying attention to the festering statin scandal, or its looming replacement, PCSK9 inhibitors (desperately needed because statins are all going off-patent and prices are in free fall).
The ability to do that is a direct result of the efforts of LC advocate Richard K. Bernstein. He was the world's first customer for an instrument that could be used for home testing. He wrote a paper describing how to use it, which was handed out by the manufacturer, because the medical publications refused to run it (just because Bernstein wasn't at that time yet an MD). Some history at: http://www.mendosa.com/history.htm
The ADA opposed home BG testing for 17 years, and then only relented for those actually using insulin (a minority of sufferers), still demanded that you have a prescription for the tester. If you are a diabetic, or merely want to avoid it, the ADA is still, to this day, your mortal enemy.
Everybody need its protein (amino acids), and the moste common defiency is protein defiency!
And LCHF is a fat diet, I.E. a ketogenic diet!
You still need your proteins!
I cant see what amino acids have to do whit nephropathy.. its more linked to diabetes.. I.E. high blood sugar!
Its not the kidney how do the major job excreting amino acid waste.. its the liver that convert it to excretable substances!
"the urea cycle takes place primarily in the liver, and to a lesser extent in the kidney."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urea_cycle
And its rather high blood sugar that harm the kidney, not protein!
"A low-carbohydrate diet may prevent end-stage renal failure in type 2 diabetes."
http://www.nutritionandmetabolism.com/content/3/1/23
"Renal function following long-term weight loss in individuals with abdominal obesity on a very-low-carbohydrate diet vs high-carbohydrate diet."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20338292
For what i read is when you have lost about 70% of your kidneys function one have to consider that urea can acumulate in blood!
But then, one often need dialysis at that stage.. and that means that one need to eat more proteins (amino acids) becuse of the high losses by dialysis!
Proteins (amino acids) still is essentiall.. I.E. one need to eat some amounts to be healty!
And LCHF is not a meat diet.. its a fat diet.. a ketogenic diet!
But everyone need its essentiall amino acids anyhow!
I am T1D. I can't clearly understand how I can switch to LCHF and control my blood sugar during the first days...
Can you help me maybe?
Regards