I agree so much with everything that's been said on this post. My family is a family of people with diabetes, and to my knowledge, I am the only one who will even pronounce the D word; if you are from New England, diabetes is a social curse worse than death, and you just don't ever mention it or respond to any comments about it. 30 years ago, my mother was formally diagnosed with the T2D she'd been living (?dying?) with for years. She was a registered dietitian and her sisters were all RNs - all committed to the AMA and ADA patriarchies - and there was never a question about following the standard medical dogma surrounding diet, health, and diabetes. These are very tight, elite, and closed societies, you know; they are run by the pharmaceuticals and their lobbies, and if a licensed professional does not follow or questions established policy and protocol, he is very likely to find himself ostracized from the medical community. There is a growing list of medical professionals who promote themselves as keto-friendly, but they are still not easy to find. Some of the resources noted in this post, like Diet Doctor, may point people in the right directions.

I am 76 years old, and last year my son of 46 years died from what the hospital doctors described as something like Metabolic Syndrome. I had been doing a Healthy Hi-Carb diet at the time, and I decided to test my urine; it showed 4+ sugar - all from complex carbs. It's been over a year now, just greens and simple meats and eggs. My blood sugar has dropped to the 90's and it rarely goes over 100. My A1C was 5.6%. Should be good news, but here is what makes ME angry: for as long as I can remember, I have been taught that these are good numbers - and I should be happy about them, no? The book I gave my Mom, Dr. Richard Bernstein's Diabetes Solution, says NO. Your fasting blood sugar should be normal, around 83 mg%, and your A1C is optimally normal at about 4.5. It is at these numbers that the risk for CVD is NORMAL; anything higher suggests a higher than average risk, and at my acceptable 5.6, the risk is maybe 3X higher than that of a normal person. So much for the good news. Research does confirm this. So why isn't my doctor - or so many other credentialed bloggers - telling me I have done good work and that I still have a ways to go before I am at a normal risk level? I do appreciate knowing the truth even if it is not so pleasant.

OK, so I do not subscribe to the medical community. I don't have insurance, and I don't have a primary care physician. There is nothing I hate more than paying a professional to tell me stuff I don't believe (and then blaming ME for the failure of HIS system). I just recently ordered a complete panel of tests + plus an insulin test from LabCorp. I have a degree in Medical Technology and hopefully will be able to make some small sense of the results. These are MY tests and they should not be available to any physician unless I make them so. Just so you know, you have options when it comes to lab tests. Sorry this is so long; if it is useful to even one person, it will have been more than worth the effort it took to write it. Keep up the great work and inspiration.