When I was diagnosed with Type 2 in November 2012 my blood sugar was 23 mmol/litre (UK) which is 414 mg/dl (US) and I had terrible fungal infections of the testicles and groin and a tingling toe on my right foot. It was the fungal infection that forced me to go to the doctors - I had not been for 20 years previously. Paradoxically that infection may have saved me from a much worse fate!
I was a mathematics scholar at Cambridge University in the UK and have spent most of my life in research of one form or another (i.e. sitting motionless in front of a computer eating take away food). My father was a professor of Surgery and my sister in law is a doctor at the Royal London Hospital. So my natural defence against this disease was to research into it to find out how to fix it. The doctors I saw were helpful and encouraging in this regard. There is no surgical or biochemical (drug related) cure for diabetes at present except in cases where the patient is obese and only has mild type 2. Only in that case will bariatric gastric bypass surgery or drastic weight loss fix the disease. I did not know this when I was first diagnosed. I thought that losing enough weight could cure any level of diabetes. I was completely wrong.
So my first idea following the Newcastle reversal results was to lose a shedload of weight. I went from 176 lbs to 138 lbs in 14 weeks and was so hungry that I wanted to swallow the toothpaste I was using. That helped a little but did not fix my diabetes. Losing even more weight just made matters worse and made it almost impossible to sit down since my bum literally vanished. Going on a very low carb diet was of more help since it reduced the glycaemic load on my metabolism and this helped my diabetes to the point that I could pass a 50% OGTT on a good day. But the goal was a 100% reversal not a 50% reversal. So I continued my research on the internet and my sister in law kindly arranged a dinner party with various specialists for me to discuss diabetes with.
I then tried cinnamon and chromium picolinate and a liver detox agent. The Cinnamon helped quite a bit with the symptoms of neuralgia, the rest I found to be ineffective. One professor pointed me toward high intensity training but did not himself know why it would work other than by reasoning that we used to live like that in the days of hunting for pray (a paleolithic argument).
Then I discovered that Omega 3 can reduce cell membrane inflammation which supposedly causes insulin resistance and that it negates the bad effects of other (Omega6) polyunsaturated fats, and monounsaturated fats and saturated fats. So I started taking in a lot of Omega 3 in the form of salmon and supplements and then linseed and lumpfish caviar. This I am sure is very good for me and will reduce the chances of getting cardio vascular disease which is a really important consideration for diabetics. But it did not significantly reduce my apparent insulin resistance on its own. However together with Omega6 elimination it really does work as I was to find out years later. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1991575 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin_resistance
Furthermore my blood cholesterol levels were really good a year after being on a very very high fat diet and eating 3 rashers of bacon every day and shedloads of cheese, because the Omega3 polyunsaturated fats balance out the saturated fats and Omega9 monounsaturated fats and the Omega6 polyunsaturated fats.
Then I went skiing in Courchevel, which is a beautiful French village in the alps which reminds me of the Swiss village of Andermatt where I trained for the British Junior Skiing championships when I was 14 and 15. The only really vigorous exercise I ever did in my life was skiing. The wonderful thing about skiing is that it is so much fun that you do not even realise you are exercising until you get back to the chalet when you drop dead of exhaustion. Anyway since I had been walking for 2 hours per day for 4 months prior to the skiing holiday I found that I was not out of breath at all during my descents on the piste, even at 2000 metres. So I did a lot of skiing exercise and found that I felt wonderful. I had never felt so good. So then I realised that the exercise was flooring my sugar and that really fixed my neuralgia. So since I had got stuck at 50% reversal of my condition I decided to try and eliminate my diabetic neuralgia. My doctors were divided on whether this was possible - neuralgia generally got worse with diabetes not better. But I had tasted success in the French alps and when success means not feeling like you have been kneed in the balls 10 minutes ago (I had undiagnosed Diabetic erythrasma of the scrotum - bad bad bad) you definitely do not want to fail!
So I theorized that diabetic neuralgia is effectively an allergic reaction by the longer and the sugar-damaged nerves in the nervous system to blood sugar. A normal non diabetic person would not get neuralgia when their blood sugar climbs to 7.0 (UK) 126 (US). But I get a frozen 4th toe on my right foot and pain in the balls. I have become neurologically over sensitive to blood sugar. So I decided to floor it totally and kill the bastard. I went in for a lot of exercise and my neuralgia slowly improved to the point where I felt like I had been kneed in the balls 30 minutes ago rather than 10 minutes ago. Believe me this was life changing. For example it meant that I could actually sit down on a chair for longer than 10 minutes. Everyone used to think that I was about to give a speech when I used to get up from the table at a meal.
Then I must be honest and alienate the agnostics - I prayed to God in great anger. I said to him what is the matter with you? Did you not know that 400 million of your human children would get this awful disease? If you cannot provide a body that can stay the course can you not at the least give us one that tells us where our blood sugar is? Do you need Bayer of Germany to help you out here? Perhaps you should contract out the design of the next generation of your humans to them? Vorsprung durch technik shall we be? Well something like that - He is my father. Why should I not remonstrate with him? So then he answered me. My body was telling me where my blood sugar was but I wasn't listening - doh! The 4th toe on my right foot would freeze when my blood sugar went above 6 (UK) 108 (US) and it would free up when my sugar went below 6. Further more my balls would start to ache after an hour of having a frozen toe and cease to ache about an hour after the toe loosened. So actually my body was screaming at me but I was too dumb to understand. I was too blind to see. I was too deaf to hear. And ain't that the way between God and man?
So now I knew what to do. I would flatten my sugar by walking after every meal until my toe loosened up completely. Then guess what happened? My testicular ringworm which was misdiagnosed as erythrasma (which I mistook for neuralgia) vanished almost completely. Incidentally I was no longer impotent either. The trouble was that even with Skecher M Strikes and Noene impact absorbing insoles and Sorbothane impact absorbing insoles on top of them - my feet were still falling off because I was walking on concrete. So I purchased a soft treadmill. That saved me so much time now and permited me to measure how long I need until my toe loosened which gave me an idea of how much excess glucose I am producing. Most importantly of all it enabled me to do higher intensity walking which fixes sugar more quickly. The trainers to get now (2016 December) are Skecher Go Walk3 or Go Run3.
So I have almost perfect sugar management thanks to my toe and my balls and my treadmill. Then came what I thought was the breakthrough (it was not). I thought to myself surely since muscle burns glucose, the more muscle I have the less diabetic I should be? So I did a Google search on muscle mass and insulin resistance. Bingo. Gain 10% more muscle lose 11% of your insulin resistance http://jcem.endojournals.org/content/early/2011/07/14/jc.2011-0435.full.pdf. Then I realised that muscles do not only burn glucose, they store it. Then I realised that my skeletal muscles are my glycogen battery. Then I realised I had a flat battery. Then I thought I understood diabetes - see the cause. But I had more to learn.
In the spring of 2016 I had perfect sugar from walking 2 hours per day. But realised that I would have to spend the rest of my life doing this as keeping ones sugar perfect does not fix insulin resistance. So I embarked on my next crusade, to fix the real cause of type2 - Insulin resistance (nope it's a fungal overgrowth in the gut). The report from that crusade is on my Insulin Resistance page. To cut a long story short I found out how to halve my insulin resistance in 4 weeks and I am now prediabetic and only have to walk 55-60 minutes per day for perfect sugar as of 2016May21. I hope in the next 4 weeks to halve it again and get to 30 minutes per day. And then I hope in the 4 weeks after that to eliminate it all together and become fully non diabetic once more. But nope. That did not occur.
Stage 0: Every day treat your insulin resistance with a Nutriblast (NutriBullet
Smoothie) made of Spinach or flat leaf de-stemmed Kale or de stemmed Swiss Chard
or other green leaves (swiss chard is the best in my experience). OR a
salad made from raw greens. Do not leave green in the fridge in sealed bags for
more than 3 days, or bacteria will start growing and give you a stomach
ache.
Every day take 2500-7500 IU of Vitamin D3 (62.5-187.5ug), with the aim of
getting your blood Vitamin D level to 150 nmol/L 500 mg Vitamin C, 200 mg Magnesium
Citrate
Every day take
at least 3000
mg of DHA and at least 4000mg of EPA fish based Omega3 from triple strength fish
oil.
Every day eat at least 20 grams of ALA from flax seed and chia seed bread,
brownies, cakes, biscuits, pastry, pancakes, chipatis - preferably from the
bread.
Use Plora Proactiv or other sunflower or low sat fat low mono high poly spread.
No Butter.
EAT NO CHEESE AT ALL
DO NOT SNACK between meals at all.
Whole milk or semi skimmed in moderation.
Every day eat low carb high poly fat diet with Omega3 to Omega6 in a 1:1
ratio.
Walk off your sugar within 30 minutes of every meal if you have a fast
metabolism and within 60 minutes if you have a slow one - preferably on a treadmill or on a spin bike or
on an elliptical trainer in a swim it
off.
Eat lamb chicken preferably but some beef pork turkey duck too. Remove
separable fat from the meat. Eating skin is OK but not the subcutaneous
fat.
Avoid sea food initially as it causes gluconeogenesis from the losely structured
protein. Especially avoid all crustaceans. You will be taking almost enough
triple strength fish oil to become an eskimo without eating any further fish.
Eat turnips, carrots, swedes, broccoli, cabbage and sprouts, instead of
potatoes.
Eat nothing which contains more than 10% carb by weight to start
with.
In March 2015 I had perfect interprandial regulation. I only have to walk 95 minutes per day and after the walk my sugar just stays low (around 4.8 mmol/L).
In May 2016 I had perfect interprandial regulation. I only have to walk for 55-60 minutes per day (on one large 2000 kcal meal per day). So I finally got there. It took me 3½ years because I did not know what I was doing at the start. But you can do it in 3 months if you follow the latest regime.
In December 2016 I now have to walk around 75 minutes per day because I am trying to put some weight on and my vitamin D level is below 100 nmol/L and I am experimenting with different fats to get the final push because I was stuck at 55-60 minutes per day. I have not got it right yet. I will keep you posted. I am not going to put my vitamin D level up until I get the fats right. I learn nothing if I change two things at the same time.
So once you have basically shut down your carb metabolism completely and are walking off 50 more grams of carb per day than you actually eat, or more if necessary, then I do not think it takes long before you start regulating. And when you can regulate fully, you should only have to walk for 25-35 minutes after each meal. What happens after that I do not know because I have not got there yet. But post prandial regulation is really the end of diabetes. Keep that going for long enough and your insulin resistance will evaporate. That is no longer speculation. My friend Sami has done it. I have just go there in May 2016. But then he started eating Cake again - dough!
If you limit your carb intake to zero, then the body will switch to running off fat and will convert any protein you eat into sugar to feed the brain with the 50-70 grams per day of sugar it requires. But it will do this diabetically as if you had actually eaten the sugar and your blood sugar will still be too high. Your liver will treat 50-70 grams of ingested protein as if they were carbs. So there is only so much that you can achieve through carb restriction alone.
The percentage of carbs that you burn (compared to fat) is precisely related to your oxygen consumption and to you heart rate. Roughly speaking if you are walking at 50% max heart rate and if you are not very fit, then this will mean you have to breath through your mouth and you will be at around 50% VO2 max (50% max breathing rate) and you will burn 50% carb and 50% fat. That is classic medium intensity carb burning exercise. So you just need to keep exercising in such a way that you are slightly out of breath. Once you become fit you will be able to reach 50% of max heart rate without needing to breathe through your mouth. Do not worry 0 it will never become impossible to burn enough carbs. It will just take a faster pace of walking to achieve the same breathlessness and heart rate when you get a bit fitter. When I started this, 30 minutes at 2.7 mph would fix my sugar. Now I need to do 30 minutes at 3.5 mph to get the same result. This is not because I am more diabetic. It is because I am much stronger and fitter and so am burning more fat than I used to when walking. So to burn the same amount of carbs, i.e. use the same amount of oxygen, i.e. get as breathless as I used to, I need this faster pace.
The good news is that after a year or so your metabolism settles into a consistent routine. I now (October 2014 and again as of March 2015) have to ramp up to 5.8 kph. I can easily do 6.0 or 6.2 kph kph but normally I do not have to.
The minute you find yourself breathing strolling easily during the treadmill session, then up the pace by a notch. Do not get stressed but do get stretched.
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It is effectively the Eskimo fish oil diet or the Paleolithic diet. Diabetes normally kills through cardio vascular complications so do not look at fat as the enemy. Diabetes is the enemy not fat, especially not good fat which is poly fat. Excess Carbs and and fat imbalance are your enemies because they cause diabetes to progress at your expense. Diabetes is a 25 year death sentence due to cardio vascular or other complications if the condition is not eliminated or managed well. But managing diabetes is breaking even with it. We do not want to break even with a killer. We want to beat him totally.
Here is my 2016 diabetic exercise regime in our present understanding.
If your blood sugar is too high after a meal or at the end of the day for any reason, or if you have been naughty and eaten a load of stuff that you should not have eaten, do not worry.
Just walk briskly or cycle not too strenuously or swim quickly until your blood sugar is right. Exercise both decreases your apparent insulin resistance and your blood glucose at around 1.2 mmol/l or 22 mg/dl per 200 kcal of exercise for me - see how it works for you. I have found that walking is the best of these 3 at reducing blood sugar and the least stressful.
30 mins of low intensity exercise reduces blood sugar a little but does not help much as it burns mainly fat.
30 mins of medium intensity exercise, such as brisk walking at 50% max heart rate, burns 50% carb and 50% fat and clears glycogen storage space (reduces apparent insulin resistance) by burning glycogen. It can fix your blood sugar reliably and without stress. But it cannot really be put in the bank to fix diabetes.
10 mins of high intensity exercise such as jogging clears glycogen storage space but also releases adrenalin which puts sugar up. It can be put in the bank to fix diabetes - because it builds your muscles. But you must give the muscle groups you exercised a day to recover. So you should only do a high intensity workout on the same muscle group every other day.
The best exercise routine in my present experience (as of 2016April) is medium intensity sugar reducing exercise every day after every meal combined with a few pull ups on my exercise bar in my doorway to stretch out my body and use my arms a bit. Because walking compresses it. Larger amounts of High Intensity training have never done me much good.
A friend of mine, Sami, aged 32 was diagnosed with Type 2 on June 10, 2014. He had a spot sugar of 13.9 mmol/l (250 mg/dl) and an HbA1c of 10.6% or 92 mmol/l. He was told to go on diabetic drugs immediately. Since he knows me, he chose not to do that and instead he rang me to ask for advice. I told him to stop eating bread pasta and rice and cakes and biscuits and sugar and to walk for 30 mins after every single meal. He did that for 2 days and his spot sugar became 10.3. He then came to see me and I discovered he was eating porridge for breakfast which is a disaster for a diabetic - it is 60% carbs. His spot sugar was 10.3 again (this is now 4 days after diagnosis). So I asked him to do 30 minutes on my treadmill, 10 minutes ramping up to 5.6 kph and 20 mins at 5.6 kph. This reduced his blood sugar to 7.1 mmol/l which astonished him and astonished me. So I said lets kill the bastard - do another 30 mins, do 15 mins at 5.6 kph and then 15 mins at 5.8 kph (to keep the body burning carbs rather than fat). He did this and his sugar went down to 4.9 mmol/l (88 mg/dl). This astonished us both even more. Here was a guy who was fairly badly diabetic with high sugar on the Thursday, and then he was standing before me with 4.9 mmol/l on the Sunday. This confirmed something that I had suspected for a long time but never been able to prove. Namely that wherever your sugar is on diagnosis (mine was 23 mmol/l or 414 mg/dl) the very first thing you should do is walk it down to 5.0 mmol/l or 90 mg/dl upon the nearest treadmill. It may take you one hour, it may take you 2 hours, it may take you 3 hours. But you CAN do that on day one. When you have high blood sugar the body will burn that rather than fat.
So stage 1 is really easy can can be done upon day 1.
The next thing is that if you walk more than you need to fix your post prandial sugar spike, then you can put enough in the bank to regulate until the next meal. So you can get to stage 4 immediately by walking for an extra 15 minutes after your sugar is fixed (i.e. at 5.0 mmol/l or below) after each meal.
So stage 4 is achievable upon day 3 in my new opinion if you can do sufficient treadmill walking or spinning after each meal.
We are aiming to completely fix Sami's diabetes in 2 weeks from today (2014June15). Actually by June29 his sugar was 5.5 mmol/l in the morning and the same after each post prandial walk. So he was no longer diabetic as of that date. That is a fantastic result! In his case he only needed 30 mins walking after each meal. He will be fully cured when he can get perfect sugar on 60 minutes per day of walking on a 70-100 carb gram per day diet. That cure may only we a month away - Stay tuned! With me It will take another years at the rate I am progressing. But Sami was fully diabetic only for 2 months whereas I had it for at least 2 years.
On 2014July15, I spoke to Sami and he is now completely cured. He only walks 30 mins per day upon a treadmill at his health club and around 20 mins per day around town per day, i.e. less than an hour per day. He eats more than 100 gm of carbs per day and his morning sugar is between 5.2 mmol/l and 5.5 mmol/l. He is no longer diabetic.
The short answer is that if you follow my latest insulin resistance fixing regime together with a carb negative diet and exercise regime you can completely fix your type2 is 3-6 months. I mean to the point where you can eat roast potatoes and carbs again.
Diabetes is a progressive disease if left untreated. This program puts the disease into regression. So if you have been fully diabetic for 6 months prior to diagnosis then the disease has been merrily progressing for 6 months. This program will put the disease back into regression at roughly the same rate that it progresses. So it should take you around 6 months to return to normal. We define normal as having perfect sugar (HbA1c of 5.25% or less) on a 100 carb gram per day diet with less than 60 minutes walking per day (20 minutes after each meal). Sami got there in 30 days. With me it will take another year or so. We are both fixed clinically - but I still have to walk for 120 minutes per day on 40-50 carb grams as of 2014July15. But Sami now only has to walk for 45 minutes per day upon a treadmill on his 100 carb grams per day diet to get sugar in the morning in the range of 5.2 - 5.5 mmol/L. He is fully cured. It can be done. Sami had an HbA1c in October 2014, of 5.8% or 40 mmol/mol which is non diabetic but a bit too high for my liking (this was because he stopped exercising due to pain in his feet). Ideally he needs to get it below 5.5%. But he is now non diabetic with no exercise!!!
As of March 2015 I have to walk for 105 minutes per day for perfect sugar. When I started doing this properly in July 2013 I had to walk 180 minutes per day for reasonable sugar. So even with really severe diabetes you can win and I will, God willing, get to 60 minutes per day in the next 12 months. I think HIT is the key at this stage.
Well today in February 2016 I have to walk 130 minutes per day for perfect sugar (but I have reduced the speed a little and become more fit so it is probably equivalent to 110 minutes at the old pace). HIT has not helped. But I do have much bigger muscles. I feel a lot fitter. I am not eating enough green leaves. I stopped the Nutribullet smoothies. That was a mistake. However I can now say this. Diet and exercise will fix sugar completely and that means all secondary diabetic complications such as peripheral neuralgia, retinopathy, nephropathy (Kidney trouble), impotence, cardio vascular trouble etc goes away. So you are no longer a victim of any diabetic complications - which is fantastic. BUT your insulin resistance remains (unless you were prediabetic or had only been diabetic for a few months). So I now have to find a way to treat that. The green leaf smoothies help in that regard. I wish there was a meter to measure insulin resistance - then I could see what foods help and what foods hinder. But actually the amount of walking I have to do is a reasonable measure of insulin resistance.
So having fixed your sugar, diabetes stops damaging you. But you are still diabetic due to insulin resistance, residual pancreatic damage, immune system damage and diabetic gut flora overgrowth. For the treatment of insulin resistance and diabetic gut yeast overgrowth please see the page on insulin resistance.
http://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1741-7015-11-160
(cord blood stem cell education therapy)
http://www.betacellmetabolism.org/index_files/Page347.htm
(GLP-1 could be a useful T2D drug) It helps pancreatic beta cells.
http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fendo.2014.00091/full
(Gut flora and diabetes). Need more Bifidobacterium and less Bacteroidetes.
The gut flora problem might be a symptom of the disease or the cause of it (It was the cause - editor). The must read is the cord cell education paper. It shows that our immune systems have gone wrong. Type 1 diabetes is known to be caused by T reg cells attacking the beta cells in the pancreas. Type 2 appears to be associated with a different form of immune system disorder.
Type 1 is close to a cure now thanks to Prof Melton at Harvard who has grown billions is beta cells from stem cells. These can in the near future be implanted to 'renew' the pancreas of the Type 1 diabetic. Also Jeffrey Bluestone of the University of California extracted T reg cells, replicated them and then infused them back into Type1 patients. This cured them for 12 months!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11151909/Cure-for-Type-1-diabetes-imminent-after-Harvard-stem-cell-breakthrough.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/12016532/End-of-daily-injections-for-diabetes-as-scientists-restore-insulin-production.html
(University of California and Yale T cell treatment).
1. Balance your ALA intake with walnut LA intake (so long as you are not
allergic to nuts). So 50 grams per day of walnuts of men and 20 grams per day of
walnuts for women. Eat half in walnut grams of your combined flax seed plus chia
seed gram intake.
2. Take sufficient quantities of EPA and DHA up to eskimo levels if necessary,
between 0-4 grams of EPA and between 0- 4 grams of DHA per day from triple strength fish
oil for MEN to achieve EPA:AA of 1.. This high dosage is
suggested due to the total lack of clinical evidence for any increased risk of
internal bleeding from fish oils. (130 kcals). Women should take less EPA
and DHA since they convert ALA into EPA at 2.5x the rate of men at 5x the rate
of men (not just the ALA they get from flax seed and chia seed). So for women
0-3 grams of EPA and 0-2 grams of DHA per day is enough so long as they are
taking the recommended ALA..
3. EPA treats insulin resistance due to inflammation. DHA treats
neuralgia. ALA treats insulin resistance due to sat fat (in rats - not sure
about humans yet).
4. Vitamin D3: 4000--8000 IU or 100-200 micrograms per day (depending upon how
much direct sunlight your skin receives) and NO vitamin K2
(MK7). Get your Vitamin D level to 150 nmol/L.
5 Vitamin C (preferably Ester C) 500 mg per day (to make up for lack of fruits in
the diet due to sugar content).
6. Lots of raw green leafy vegetables both as salads and boiled and in liquid form as
smoothies. The best appears to be Swiss Chard in unsweetened Almond milk. That
really turned things around for me.
7. Magnesium malate or citrate: 400 mg per day of elemental magnesium. 200mg
per day if taking the recommended flax seed which is full of magnesium
8. 1½ heaped teaspoons of Cinnamon Verum (not Cassia) for a tea, with milk before exercise.
9. Plenty of raw of fried or stewed Garlic and Onions
10. Boiled carrots and turnips and swedes and broccoli. Draining off the water
which contains washed out carb.
The aim is to get your blood Omega6:Omega3 ratio to be around 1 for EPA:AA and for ALA:LA. We achieve this by increasing your Omega3 intake and by balancing your Omega6 intake. My EPA:AA ratio was 0.78 on 2016September30 (56% Omega3), which may be slightly too low. It was not eskimo level but was traditional Japanese fish based diet level. Your vitamin D figure should be around 150 nmol/L.
Take all of the above and then try the below one at a time and see which works the best for you...
11.
Pomegranate seed extract (Life Extension or Jarrow) 2x 250 mg from (10 grams of
pomegranate at 40:1). This is a good capillary plaque remover. It fights
microvascular sclerosis - which causes insulin resistance and slow healing.
12. Green tea (good antioxidant)
13.
Echinacea
14. Zinc Sulphate, 30 mg per day - http://www.diabetesincontrol.com/prediabetes-patients-improve-fasting-glucose-with-zinc/
.
15. Ginger root most definitely delays sugar absorption very effectively. But if
you are going to walk of your sugar after the email this is not very helpful.
Worth trying though. It has a big effect.
Take Cinnamon from day one if it helps. It certainly can help with neuralgia. One teaspoon per day is sufficient - but every day or every other day. Just have a teaspoon of cinnamon in your Green tea rather than sugar. Or rather make a tea from a teaspoon of cinnamon instead of the tea bag.
We shall see what effect that has upon my insulin resistance as measured by how much post prandial walking I have to do.
Well on March 20th 2016, I only have to walk around 105 minutes per day for absolutely perfect sugar. So I have learned that certain foods improve your insulin resistance and others make it worse. The main changes I have made are...
Cut out Bacon
Eat a lot of raw Swiss Chard in a big smoothie with unsweetened Almond Milk.
The only red meat that actually helps is Lamb. Do not eat Pork or Beef
regularly. .Perhaps the odd steak but that is it.
Low fat cheese and Eggs appear to be fine (but not cream for me).
"Fish oil supplements can affect blood clotting, people who are taking anticlotting medicines, have had a hemorrhagic stroke, or are having surgery in the near future should avoid them." - http://www.diabetesselfmanagement.com/diabetes-resources/definitions/omega-3-fatty-acids/
However DHA improves brain trauma recovery in rats. And Dr William Davis has shown there is no clinical basis for blood thinning worries about long chain Omega3 fatty acids - http://www.cureality.com/blog/post/2009/10/27/does-fish-oil-cause-blood-thinning.html.
However the main cause of Type2 is not insulin resistance. But is an overgrowth gut yeast/fungi which hack your metabolism to up your sugar for their benefit. They turn you into a sugar factory to feed them. They are true parasites. This can be fixed with an antifungal and prebiotic oligosaccharide diet.