A Diabetes Discovery

[badger2]

/----/ For crying out loud - stop playing, doctor. Ask your physician before experimenting.

Potatoes and Diabetes: Safety, Risks, and Alternatives

If you have diabetes, you may have heard that you should limit or avoid potatoes. This article tells you everything you need to know about potatoes and diabetes.

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When you eat them (potatoes) , your body breaks down the carbs into simple sugars that move into your bloodstream. This is what’s often called a spike in blood sugar levels (1Trusted Source).

The hormone insulin is then released into your blood to help transport the sugars into your cells so that they can be used for energy (1Trusted Source).

In people with diabetes, this process is not as effective. Instead of sugar moving out of the blood and into your cells, it remains in circulation, keeping blood sugar levels higher for longer.

Therefore, eating high-carb foods and/or large portions can be detrimental to people with diabetes.

Badger2's physician knew about the addition of thyme, exercise and fruit- and vegetable-increases to the diet as he looked at the test results for A1C and blood pressure being lowered. He had no argument against thyme.

 

[DudleySmith]

Depends on which type you have. I grew up with a kid who was diabetic and he was skinny as a rail.

Same here. We used to watch him give himself insulin injections when he was 8.

 

[DudleySmith]

I'm prediabetic and the only thing that seems to help my glucose is walking. It doesn't even have to be a long walk. 10 minutes and there's a significant reduction.

Exercise uses up glucose and sugar as well as carbs in general.

 

[LeroyDumonde]

Neither of you have mentioned what the poison is you are mouthing off about. Until that happens, readers should be tongue-in-cheek.

So we suggest thyme, which has no carbs. The phytochemistry of thyme assists in the reversal of pre-diabetes and the lowering of glycated A1C. That trajectory includes this Japanese report:

Protein Glycation Inhibitors from Thyme

Protein glycation inhibitors from thyme (Thymus vulgaris) - PubMed

Nonenzymatic glycation of bovine serum albumin (BSA) was inhibited in vitro by some extracts of 34 kinds of spices. The methanol extract of thyme (Thymus vulgaris) had the most potent inhibitory activity among them. Chromatographic purification yielded four flavonoids, quercetin (1), eriodictyol...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Thyme is already part of my diet so if it helps great. However I've read all kinds of research about X, Y, and Z helping reduce blood glucose, but the only thing I've found with a measurable impact for me has been walking.

 

[badger2]

Exercise uses up glucose and sugar as well as carbs in general.

Yes, and is why the complete exercise of the musculoskeletal system focuses on glucose metabolism most everywhere in the body.

 

[badger2]

Thyme is already part of my diet so if it helps great. However I've read all kinds of research about X, Y, and Z helping reduce blood glucose, but the only thing I've found with a measurable impact for me has been walking.

But when you take in Thymus vulgaris phytocompounds such as cirsilineol, you know that this compound is precisely targeting glycated A1C. This is a scientific fact that can only be changed by perhaps plant breeding techniques: Thymus leaf, 7.4 ppm. There is also cirsilineol in Citrus reticulata pericarp: 12.1 ppm.

 

[badger2]

The understanding of the structure, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of plant compounds that have evolved such as cirsilineol, is where the potential lies for understanding genomic compromises in glucose metabolism for the last four billion years.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

raised as a poor white boy we ate potatos a lot,, my favorite was to slice them raw with a little salt,,

to this day the only thing I put salt on is potatos,,

I used to do that too. Thin slice of raw potato and some salt!

 

[badger2]

A parallel to the pharmacy of thyme in evolution is seen in the immune-boosting, anti-cancer activity of trans-vaccenic acid found in red meat. The evolution of this compound must go back to the Robin Williams video (youtube)showing Williams standing on the beach with a cow, linking the evolution of dolphins.

But the stereoisomer of trans-vaccenic acid in red meat, cis-vaccenic acid, more correctly completes the evolving image of chemotaxonomy over time: cis-vaccenic acid is found in Sea Buckthorn.

Hippophae

https://en.wikipedai.org/wiki/Hippophae

 

[badger2]

Hippophae - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Carl in Michigan]

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The rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated

Apparently you don't understand the simple results of my "experiment "

In the simplest possible terms:
The starch in raw potato DOES NOT spike blood sugar

 

[badger2]

The rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated

Apparently you don't understand the simple results of my "experiment "

In the simplest possible terms:
The starch in raw potato DOES NOT spike blood sugar

But there are different types of starch depending on the potato. We thank the Russians for pointing this out:

Jan 2021 Russia / Amylopectin

Different Reactivity of Raw Starch from Diverse Potato Genotypes - PubMed

Potato starch is one of the most important renewable sources for industrial manufacturing of organic compounds. Currently, it is produced from mixed potato varieties that often are harvested from different fields. Meanwhile, tuber starches of various potato breeds differ in their crystallinity...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

1996 Australia Diabetes / Amylopectin

Amylopectin starch induces nonreversible insulin resistance in rats - PubMed

Starches that are high in amylopectin are digested and absorbed more quickly than starches with a high amylose content and produce insulin resistance in rats during long-term feeding. The aim of this study was to determine whether amylopectin-induced insulin resistance could be prevented or...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

'....The nature of starch in the Western diet influences the development of noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.'