It is primarily seed oils, not natural sugars, which causes diabetes.
Diabetes can be reversed by quitting seed oils, consuming saturated fats only, minimizing overall fat intake, and eating more natural sugar.
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Simplicity is always better
What’s provide nature is enough.
No need processing food , just minimal: 1 ingredient (crushing , cooking under fire etc ) . If a product contains ingredients that’s you don’t find in your home, or you can’t produce by yourself then these are trash ( I mean sugar, sausages, sunflower oil etc ) .
Do you have any thoughts on gestational diabetes specifically?
I wasn’t diagnosed with it while pregnant but I did fail the glucose test (Fresh Test) my midwife gave me. We then did pricks and measured my blood sugar for a few weeks. It seemed like I did have some insulin resistance but was able to keep it in a good range with careful macro pairings so I was “diet controlled” with no intervention needed.
I avoided seed oils the whole pregnancy and ate healthy from my perspective - Whole Foods, lots of meat, eggs, Greek yogurt/cheese, fruits, some veg. I am not overweight and am pretty petite though I did gain 50 pounds while pregnant with a lot of water retention.
1. Have you always avoided seed oils?
2. Did you eat chicken and pork?
3. Eggs were from grocery?
4. Source of micronutrients? Did you take a prenatal with elemental iron?
5. Did you get sun and stay active?
Your questions have spurred new thoughts for me. Thank you.
To answer your questions:
1. No, I have not. I started intentionally avoiding seed oils about six months before pregnancy. Around that same time, I stopped being vegan. I was unfortunately vegan before for about three years. 😕
2. Yes, although I mostly ate beef and salmon, I did eat chicken and a little pork.
3. Yes, eggs were from the grocery store.
4. I alternated between Seeking Health and Needed brand prenatal supplements. At one point toward the end my iron levels were getting close to the low end of normal, so I took an iron supplement my midwife recommended. I’m not sure if it was elemental. I really didn’t like it because it made my stomach hurt - I ended up just eating more red meat and pairing with an orange for absorption and I think that helped my iron levels.
5. I got a lot of sun and walked outside throughout the day. I did some squats and pelvic exercises. Also, I slept in a loft at the time and frequently had to go up and down the ladder. That felt like a workout with such a big belly. 😆
If I were to get pregnant again, there are things I would do differently this time. I’m sure some of the above probably contributed to my insulin resistance at the time?
Oh as far as micronutrients/prenatals, I sometimes would take a liver supplement throughout the week instead of the prenatal
There is a connection to elemental iron and sugar dysregulation. Most prenatals use elemental iron. Better to simply take desiccated liver and eat oysters once a week; ditch the prenatal.
Store bought eggs, chicken, and, (farmed) salmon are basically seed oils. This is a sad and hard reality. Also tied to sugar dysregulation. For DHA, salmon roe is a better risk/return. For Omega 3s, simply eliminate all PUFA and consume your oysters.
If you only quit seed oils 6 months prior, there is a good chance that your fat stores were full of them. Ironically, you probably freed a bunch of that PUFA into the blood by changing your diet. It takes (~4) years to deplete linoleic acid properly. This will probably the biggest factor.
You gained a lot of weight suggesting a pretty deep calorie surplus; probably from too much fat, which likely enabled large scale lipolysis and remodeling of your fat stores, freeing PUFA.
It's awesome that you got sun frequently. Did you notice any skin burning or sensitivity?
The tough reality is that our body sequesters PUFA into our fat stores to protect our organs, but they can be released under certain circumstances, so we need to carefully detox them.
Be willing to bet your issues came from PUFA, both second hand in chicken/pork and being freed from bodyfat. Elemental iron instead of heme was probably an insult too far.
Finally, I would say that, there is a connection between heavy metals and sugar dysregulation.
Since most of the population was vaccinated, and metals are gifted materially, we are full of them.
Sweating and raw milk can help pay down the debt so future generations are less sick than we are.
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I have one last amalgam filling left. I had the others removed by a SMART certified holistic dentist years ago. I know neither options are ideal, but what do you think would be better:
A. Have it removed by the same dentist as before and still try to have a baby within a year or so.
B. Wait until once I’m finished giving birth and nursing the next baby.
The reason I ask is that I know that even with those special tools the dentist will use to suck up the mercury vapors, I will still ingest some of that - probably a somewhat large amount? But if I leave it, then I’m getting a little bit every day.
I'd probably spring for it now then do sweating + binders (charcoal, etc) + raw milk + antiseptic white button mushrooms + raw carrot for a few weeks to try and exfiltrate the freed metals.
Interesting to know about elemental irons connection to sugar dysregulation. These days I like to eat an ancestral ground beef with the organs grinder into it so I think I will have that next pregnancy + an oyster dip I make.
Salmon roe sounds great. I’ll have to do that next time. It’s too bad it’s so hard to find quality chicken, eggs, and pork or it’s so expensive. Makes me want to just stick to mostly grassfed beef?
It’s disheartening it takes so long to get rid of linoleic acid, especially considering we want to have another baby before then. I’ll just have to do what I can and pray for the rest. 🙏🏼
I did have whole milk Greek yogurt quite often, butter, tallow, and ghee. I think I did have pretty high fat in my diet so you’re right about that.
No, I didn’t burn. I’ve never burned easily. My great grandparents are from Italy and Spain so I have an olive undertone and usually tan even when I had a lot of seed oils in my diet in the past
I wouldn't go without 1-2 eggs a day, so just do your best to source regenerate, pasteured, organic, corn and soy free eggs.
They'll probably have been fed peanut meal and still high in Omega 6s, but I wouldn't want you to go without choline and the other micronutrients in egg yolks.
Okay. Thank you for the advice. I’m sure I could probably source that locally. Would just have to ask around.