On this episode... I discuss the food substitutions that I make in Solving Type 2 Diabetes. As part of my Week in Review, I discuss the impact of my lipoma surgery on my movement this week. I also provide an update on my progress using Mounjaro, and review Type 2 Diabetes news articles.

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Blood test detects warning signs of type 2 diabetes

Unsure if a food has added sugars? Look for these ingredients on the label

Expert recommends simple 55/5 rule to improve blood sugar levels

Fasting diet reduces risk markers of type 2 diabetes

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Finding Sugar in Processed Foods

Unsure if a food has added sugars? Look for these ingredients on the label. Now, they often, nowadays, when they're manufacturing edible substances, that we call food. Not everything we eat is actually what I call food, but, in a lot of these manufactured products, they try and hide the sugar, quite frankly. They give it different names. for example, anything that ends in -ose, those are the ones we're more familiar with. Or if it actually has sugar in the name brown sugar, cane sugar. But when you see fructose sucrose, dextrose maltose, right away, hey, call it sugar.

But now they're using different, names or different forms of sugar. They often call something a syrup. So rice, maple, corn, or evaporated cane syrup. that's sugar. All right, plain and simple. Or if it says it's honey, molasses, or agave, that is sugar. Or if you see something called fruit concentrate or fruit nectar.

That is sugar. So everything it seems has sugar in it.

Mounjaro Update

For my Mounjaro update this week, I have just taken my eighth dose at 7.5 milligrams. That's 16 doses altogether, four at 2.5 milligrams, four at 5 milligrams, and now eight at 7.5 milligrams. And when I see my doctor next month, I'm fairly certain that we are not increasing that dose at all. In fact, we might be discussing decreasing the dose down to five milligrams to see how that goes. And the last two doses I have taken at seven days as prescribed.

It seemed to have worked really well. If you remember a couple of doses before that, I tried to spread out to 10 days, but then when I did take that subsequent dose, it hit me a little bit hard, I think because the medication level in my bloodstream probably had dipped fairly low after 10 days and then when I hit it with a 7.5 milligram dose, I seem to have, GI issues, things like that, but no issues this week, no issues last week, and having great a1c. So that's my goal, that's why I'm doing this. Between the Mounjaro, the Farxiga, the eating I'm doing, and my movement,