Comment by crossroadsguy
9 hours ago
> A week of fasting a couple of times a year
By “a week of fasting” you mean a week of intermittent fasting or something else? Can you give an example of such a regime (and are there different ways?)?
Don’t have type 2 yet but has family history and it spiked to 6.1 one right after a hospitalisation so I have been spooked since (been 2 years). I get super stressed even at the thought of sugar related tests.
A week of fasting is a 7 days of consuming nothing but water, salts and possibly some vitamins.
You don’t have to try for 7 days on the first attempt, though for most people the first two days are the most difficult so riding it out past the third actually gets easier.
The fasting mimicking diet works too. (https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(15)...).
I'm ending my 5th day of this cycle today, and this morning my fasting blood glucose was 77. Usually it's around 100.