T2 diabetes tips and tricks

[DaveGrohl]

Just on salt, the below recommends a range of 3 to 5g of sodium, which is 7.5 to 12.5g of salt. Our NHS and govt guidelines tell everyone to reduce salt intake to below 6g (or 2.4g of sodium).

Sodium Intake and Health: What Should We Recommend Based on the Current Evidence?

Several health organizations recommend low sodium intake (below 2.3 g/day, 5.8 g/day of salt) for entire populations, on the premise that lowering of sodium intake, irrespective of its level of intake, will lower blood pressure and, in turn, will result ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

 

[DaveGrohl]

Looking at the above, the risk of death is higher from 6g of salt per day than 30g. What a time to be alive.

 

[Two Tone]

I’d forgotten that my GP was going to ring me today to discuss some recent Blood tests (but no Hb1Ac). Everything is fine, PSA, Liver, Kidneys and Cholesterol numbers, etc.

I’d told them I was going to reduce my Statins by half, but hadn’t told them I’d subsequently decided to cut them out completely. This is for virtually every Statin side effect reason that the internet is full of, that has effected me.
To my surprise, she was more than happy for me to do this and wil remove them from future prescriptions.
She seemed to know quite a lot about Dr Ekberg’s views and gave a strong impression that she is in agreement with him. Especially regarding damaged LDL’s

I did mention salt. She said we must have some salt, but don’t use it excessively.

So, I’m rather pleased that my GP is in agreement with me.
I’m not sure the Cardio Rehab lot at the Hospital are going to be so accommodating though!

Blimey!
If I smoked a pipe, I’d have bitten the bloody end clean off of it!

Emailed my GP and the Cardio Rehab centre a couple of weeks ago to say I was going to halve my Statin intake.
GP’s rang me 10 minutes later to say they wanted to do a blood test to see if it was the Statins causing the side effects and do loads of other tests at the same time.
Heard zilch from the Cardio lot! Which surprised me as it is them that want me to take the Statins in the first place.

GP rang earlier today with the results as were above and said she was more than happy for me to stop taking the Statins altogether.

The Cardio lot rang just now to say happy for me to drop the Statin rate by half to see if the side effects stop. But they’d like to see a blood test to see if it was the Statin causing the side effects.
I then told them that my GP had done the tests and that I had since stopped taking the Statins completely and will see if the side effects stop in a few weeks.

“OK” they said!
…………I was expecting a right bollocking!