I am happy to hear that you are in a better place health wise. Health is very important and it is good that you are taking steps in being healthy. Doing things in moderation is best, addiction can be really harmful and damaging, speaking from personal experience. Keep going, there will be good and bad days but take it step by step in trying to accomplish your goals.
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Congrats on taking power over more of your life, and being active more than reactive.
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Basically, as much keto as you can do. Meat, fish, eggs healthy fat (avocado, olive oil, butter, lard). Try to tolerate some cruciferous vegetables as they are very helpful. Believe me, I don't like kale at all, but when I just think of it as medicine, it goes down easier.
I also like Sten Ekberg quite a lot. That's a very good place to start.
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Veebles definitely has you covered on this. Also look into Berberine it is the natural alternative to metformin without all the nasty side effects.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_Su41RIJ78
Check out my boy DR.Berg on youtube (10 million subs) king of the healthy keto nutritionists out there. his videos are gold when it come to this stuff.
Problem with most doctors is they don't know crap about nutrition as they don't get taught it but they are great shills for big pharma throwing any old pills they're told to at you. Most of the junk they peddle later gets show to be incredibly bad for your health with hideous side effects or just plain nonsense made up garbage by the corrupt Big Pharma companies that fudge the study results knowing they cause damage just to make massive profits.
Good nutrition and exercise are the key to longevity. Sugar, seed oils, most (simple) carbs (other than the complex variety in moderation) are all detrimental to your health. As with most institutes Big Food is also corrupt and incentivized by massive profits. They have been lying to the public for the past 40 odd years since Coca-Cola conducted a paid study to tell the FDA that sugar was great for you and fat was the problem, can you believe that shiz?! They take the good fats and naturally occurring sugars out of their garbage food and replace it with processed sugar and poisonous industrial refined oils.
Keto and intermittent fasting works. Educate yourself on health and nutrition, there is a reason for the obesity epidemic and those scum bags take your death and the death of your love ones to the bank every day while laughing at you. They're also responsible for the all the propaganda around "fat is beautiful" no,no it isn't, being morbidly obese is not only disgusting to look at but it's a very real indication that you are seriously unhealthy and will die decades before your time while also being a burden on your countries healthcare system. As someone who has been both overweight as well as healthy and in shape throughout their life i know this to be true. Hope you continue on the road to wellness and do yourself a favor, remove alcohol from your life as much as humanly possible. Peace.
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Thank you, i never heard of berberine.
I know from tv shows in America they openly advertise drugs with warnings such as this may cause epilepsy, or even dead, something they don't do here (willingly?), so yeah offcourse one should better go without them, many put blind faith in them.
As i said to Veebles though it sounds very rigorous (but it is) and i wouldn't know what's left to eat when you already don't like many vegetables, and many of the better fruits like dark berries are more expensive (some countries don't have taxes on fruit/vegetables, we do).
More exercise is definitely something on my to do list.
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Glad to know your new meds are quite effective. And I hope you keep finding the strength to resist going into the bottomless pit of alcoholism! 'Moderate' never stays moderate.
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You can do this, you are stronger than this ! Also look into Keto (probably not new to you) to control your sugar levels.
Volhouden!
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Glad to hear! I'm a T2D too and doc has me on other meds to protect my other organs; cholesterol and blood pressure meds. Pretty sure my tummy didn't like metformin, so we got rid on it in favor of saxagliptin and empagliflozin, along with injections
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Thank you.
Yeah i just heard yesterday that a friends wife stomach got damaged all because metformin, didn't know it could be such a hassle for some people, but we are all different, got different bodies, might be better we both can get off it. ;)
Injections always seems a bit drastic, even though i am not a person that's really afraid of needles or anything, anyway hope can find a stable solution that works.
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Nah, it's not that drastic. You don't have to use a syringe and stick yourself with a big needle. It's a sealed unit with 300 units (for me that's good for 20 uses), and a tiny needle (4mm long) that you put into your stomach before meals and a separate one for before bed. I'm not sure what they use in the Netherlands though :)
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Well i did used to test my sugar levels in the past, it's also just a tiny prick, but shooting wrong or too often and it does get slightly uncomfortable, but yeah there are worse things.
I am guessing it's the same, although we also have devices that regulate insuline themselves, i also believe you have it in the form of a patch?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWOyfLBYtuU
Have a nice day ;)
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My liver values been out of whack for some years, and lately my diabetes went from slightly above average to a bit higher, i been taking metformin for 10 years always thinking that was to keep your bloodlevels in check, until my liver doctor said that wasn't so.
And a friend just told me his wife got stomach damage from taking that metformin too long.
Due an echo from 4 years ago, I always thought i had a possible fatty liver, now with a recent echo it's a fatty liver but very minor, but it's something that can recover, and with my alcohol usage in the past, blessed that it isn't bigger.
Now since a month i got another diabetes medicine (glicapizide) and bam both my liver values and bloodsugar levels are finally dropping to more normal levels and possibly can get the metformin removed.
After a year being sober i still debated to go back to moderate alcohol drinking, but i better take the money and run and quit while i am still ahead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbZSe6N_BXs=https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/4P6G8/the-last-campfire
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