Hi and thanks for all of these questions. We all here hope you feel better!

I will add this to my list of questions for Monday’s AMA.

When you get a chance, go to your profile and change your name from “User 1623119635” to a name we can all call you. Mine is “Doc T” and some use their 1st name and last name initial.

THANK YOU!!

Thank you Caroline. Thinking that I make “gold dust” for someone fires me up!

Be sure to listen to last week’s podcast with “Dr Jenny” for more about the brain.

Doc T

These are 2 different foods. SBM will deliver better protein to help with muscle loss and hormone improvement. However all protein when fed with a sugar intake in excess of daily needs can be turned into sugar which will exacerbate IR.

First reduce the sugar. Restrict the eating time. As you start to see loss of body fat, add in the SBM.

To… Read more

I agree that adding any grains with starch (even “low starch”) will negatively affect the release of insulin. Reducing sugar and starch intake is critical for improving insulin sensitivity.

Soaking hay for an hour will help remove most of the free sugars. Reduce by the total amount of hay will decrease the starch. Limiting eating hay to a 12… Read more

Thank you @AngelaM for being here from the start and helping me get off the ground. I am grateful and we will miss you. Thanks of helping horses thrive in a human world! Doc T

No I have not. But I also know that if you don’t get enough sleep every night (4 to 5 sleep cycles) then these will accumulate. Poor sleep seems to be at the root of cognitive decline (called now type 3 diabetes) as well as insulin resistance. Sleep and eat well – gee, maybe mom was right? Luckily we don’t see (recognize or measure)… Read more

Jan and Feb AMA videos are now correct! Thanks for your patience! Go to the forum “Zoom Events” and look for the discussion with the AMA title.

Great point! The brain accepts glucose without the need for insulin. This is called insulin independent glucose uptake. Muscles also have this independent uptake when the cells are in exercise mode (at V O2 Max or approximately 60% of aerobic exercise – under anaerobic levels).

Glucose for the brain comes from liver glycogen storage and… Read more

From what I understand, the burning of glucose is a less efficient process than burning fat (free fatty acid or FFA) in the mitochondrial electron transport chain / Krebs cycle. The FFA releases 20 to 28 times more energy than it does from glucose. And in the process, free radicals are formed from oxidizing glucose that need to… Read more