Pintail, great post! It is highly likely that by reducing your blood insulin load(almost never measured) in addition to your blood sugar, you have helped a whole truck load of health issues, even including your PC. Some have made some good arguments that PC is the one cancer that does not thrive on sugar. However, there seems to be pretty good evidence that folks who have PC(much like all other cancers) do MUCH better if their blood insulin runs on the low side, and MUCH worse for those who have the highest blood insulin. So, along with the other benefits you have seen, your dietary change which has almost certainly lowered your blood insulin has almost certainly not hurt anything re: your PC, and who knows might have even helped. It is hard for us to ever really know for sure if something helps our PC. For example, if your PSA goes up since your changes, can you really say it would not have gone up anyway, or that it might not have gone up even more if you had not changed your diet? Hard to say without a large, controlled trial/study. But what we do know is how folks do with general health in general and cancer in general, including PC, when their blood insulin is chronically high. And that is virtually always worse. And we also know how to lower insulin with diet. Which is all rather the opposite of a type 2 diabetic injecting more and more insulin to control their sugar and A1C, once their body can no longer produce enough to get the job done.
I'm glad to see that you wanted to try reducing sugar in order to treat sugar diabetes/AKA type 2 diabetes/aks T2D(used to be called "adult onset, but these days even children get it), before trying meds. Sad to me that your doc(like most docs) apparently did not recommend that first. Meds could not have done as well as you have done, and most have their own unwanted SEs, and don't forget expense if only due to rising insurance cost.
But isn't it amazing to see how consistently this simple change works with almost every one who is actually willing to do it? With almost every one who tries this change in eating habits that most doctors either never mention, or they even encourage the opposite approach? And how it works even after many of us have failed to improve with low fat and/or low calorie, or even gotten worse? Or if we do manage to improve, can't manage to put up with the hunger, and maybe get some unwanted SEs like dropping HDL and rising triglycerides? I don't think I have seen a post anywhere where some one says "I cut my carbs, kept everything else about
the same or maybe increased the fat a bit, and not only did it not help, but raised my blood sugar and TGLs and BP and lowered my HDL, and I needed more diabetes meds". I only see the opposite of that result.
So often over the years, the response from our docs has been "we need to get you on a low fat diet(and/or T2D drugs)", thus almost guaranteeing a higher % of our calories from sugar, since those fat calories end up being replaced, since most humans are unwilling to be hungry for very long. Rather than the first response being " Bad news, you have sugar diabetes, so the very 1st thing you need to do is cut way back on the sugar, and foods that become sugar after digestion". Isn't the lack of common sense amazing?
Thanks for your report! You appear to have escaped, at least for now, the so called progressive nature of T2D and it's medications, resulting in only positive, wanted SEs! Good for you!
Post Edited (BillyBob@388) : 4/16/2019 9:49:10 AM (GMT-6)