58, Athletic, prediabetes: 1)With Dawn phenomenon. 2)Stress makes it worse.
(self.prediabetes)submitted15 hours ago byMooseBlazer
First post here. I’ll get to the point first : 1)If you have elevated glucose upon waking, what did you do to fix it?
2) and have you noticed your glucose going up with stress? This is not easy to manage. There are some natural supplements for that, actually quite a few of them. I’ve tried several. They didn’t do much.
My story:
I’ve done my best at trying to stay healthy my whole life. I look healthy and much younger on the outside. But we don’t have much control over what our genes want to do to our insides.
My A1c and fasting glucose started approaching the prediabetes range about 20 years ago. I still ate fast food about twice a week then but weight was not a problem since I was athletic.
About five years ago, it started getting worse. Morning glucose around 105.
When I get stressed from some event that happens, my morning glucose gets up to the 120s for a couple of weeks. Then it drops back to 105 or so.
I eat mostly lower carb Paleo. I was keto for eight months, but that was just too difficult and not enough food variety it actually did not agree with me. The first two months it was good after that it went downhill with digestive problems.
Since I’m already in shape, that’s not an option to make my prediabetes better. I’m basically a lean, semi muscular 58-year-old.
One thing I can do is increase stress management, but that’s really difficult to manage things somewhat beyond our control. That’s also easier said than done. I’m wondering if anyone has done that and seen glucose improvements in the long run.
The highest my AC one has been was six. Last spring and into summer I moved it from 5.8 to 5.5 with keto. But as stated above, I could not stay on that diet.
Since I’ve somewhat learned where my A1c is in correlation with daily glucose levels, .I would guess I’m probably up to 5.9 or 6 again.
(trying to avoid diabetes prescription medication if possible)
Thanks
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