Before You Begin: A Preface to Low-Carb Diabetes Care

This book is a practical guide to effective diabetes management through a comprehensive system based on a low-carbohydrate diet. It strives to present detailed information in a clear and accessible manner. Also, complementing this book is a website diabetes-83.com that contains important news and updates.

What We Mean by Normal Blood Sugar

In this book, achieving adequate control of diabetes entails maintaining blood glucose levels equivalent to those of healthy adults with normal metabolism, i.e., 83 mg/dL ±10 mg/dL, at least 95% of the time. For children with type 1 diabetes before puberty, the target blood glucose value should be about 10 mg/dL lower.

Your doctor may have advised you to maintain higher blood glucose levels, maybe 120-180 mg/dL, deeming it acceptable and desirable. However, adhering to officially recommended blood glucose levels inevitably leads to the development of diabetes complications over the years. It may cause disability and reduce your life expectancy. Your doctor may not have adequately emphasized these risks.

Normal blood glucose levels in diabetes is 75-90 mg/dl for adults

Before we proceed, I consider it necessary to provide several warnings.

1. Achieving good control of diabetes and maintaining normal blood glucose levels requires high motivation and cognitive skills.
2. Most diabetics lack the motivation or education needed to benefit from the low-carb method and the information in this book.
3. This book contains hundreds of statements that contradict the opinion of official medicine.
4. Over time, most likely, it will turn out that some of these statements are erroneous and harmful. It’s unavoidable. Only those who do nothing do not make mistakes.

For many decades, mainstream medicine has fiercely resisted the transition of diabetics to a low-carbohydrate diet. Despite its positive impact observed by individuals with diabetes, doctors made concerted efforts to discourage its adoption. This resistance stemmed from the potential reduction in revenue streams for:

• doctors,
• pharmaceutical companies,
• medical officials.

It is only in recent years that organized medicine has partially acknowledged the legitimacy of a low-carbohydrate diet for diabetics.

Significant Life Changes Are Necessary

Switching from a regular diet to a low-carbohydrate one requires individuals with diabetes to lower their daily insulin doses and reassess the appropriate dosage for every insulin shot throughout the day. Also, they have to cut back on medications that lower their blood glucose and blood pressure. This book provides detailed information on using different types of insulin and diabetes pills.

This book presents numerous statements that may challenge the views of conventional medicine. These statements cover topics such as a suitable diet for diabetics, insulin and diabetes pill usage, and other related matters. You don’t have to take any of them for granted. Instead, conduct personal experiments, closely monitor your blood glucose levels, and assess the outcomes. Within a few days, you will objectively know whether my suggestions deliver the promised results. Unlike many other diseases, diabetes provides a unique opportunity for individuals to objectively evaluate the effectiveness of different treatment methods in a relatively short period.

Achieving worthy control of diabetes and maintaining normal blood glucose levels requires high motivation to live long and avoid disability. It also demands cognitive skills above average. Effectively managing diabetes through a low-carbohydrate diet system is not an overly complex task. However, it does require more than the average person is typically capable of.

Final Warnings Before You Begin Your Low-Carb Journey

I have made every effort to present the material clearly and understandably. Nevertheless, there are inherent boundaries to how much complex material can be simplified. If those boundaries are exceeded, what remains is merely an empty shell devoid of any meaningful benefit. I recommend taking a moment to reflect on whether you possess the necessary motivation and cognitive skills. It may be more beneficial for you to avoid investing your hard-earned money, precious time, and energy into reading this book.

I must also emphasize that the low-carbohydrate diabetes management system and this book is not compatible with vegetarian, vegan, and raw food diets. Achieving normal blood sugar levels in diabetes through a low-carb approach necessitates the consumption of animal products.

I often use the phrase “organized medicine”. It sounds similar to the phrase “organized crime”. This similarity is not accidental. I must honestly confess that this phrase was not originated by me, but by Dr. Bernstein (see section 1.3).

Before switching to the low-carbohydrate diet, please read section 1.2 of this book, undergo blood and urine tests to assess kidney function, and consult your doctor. Dangerous side effects may occur, including irreversible kidney damage. You have been warned.