HOW DO YOU TELL IF YOUR BLOOD SUGAR IS TOO HIGH OR TOO LOW?

Have you ever gone to your doctor and asked what an ideal blood sugar reading is? If so, you likely received an answer similar to this: “Oh, just try to keep it between 85 and 110.” Sound familiar?

It is amazing how many doctors and nurses know so little about the different types of diabetes. It is also amazing how busy doctors are. Some are so busy they can’t take enough time with their patients to explain the importance of each patient being well-educated about his or her condition.

According to Dr. Richard K. Bernstein, one’s fasting blood sugar should be 83 mg/dl of blood. He should know: he has been a type one diabetic since he was 12 years old. He was born on June 17, 1934. He is my hero. At 89 he still works at his clinic and does webinars during his free time to help others totally without charge. You can find him at:

So, just how often should we take our blood sugar? Often. Possibly, the best way to keep a check on your blood sugar is by wearing a continuous glucose monitor.

Now that we know what our fasting BS should be: what constitutes a fast? From the time you go to bed at night—provided you don’t get up and eat during the night—until you get up the next morning is considered an overnight fast: somewhere around eight hours. What about the rest of the day? How often should you check your blood sugar?

That depends on several factors:

What type of diabetic are you? Are you type 1 or type 2?
Are you on diabetic medication? What kind and what dose?
What types of food do you eat?
How often do you eat?
Do you snack?

Yep, all the above matters; and, there may be other factors as well. However, let’s limit our discussion to those listed above. Are there more than two types of diabetes? According to “The International Diabetes Federation, there are many types.

Below are some listed on their site. Just click on the link that interests you and you will be taken there to read to your heart’s content.

While you will get some accurate information from the above links, we do not agree with all that is postulated on their site. We especially disagree with some of the recommended foods.

For this article, we are going to limit our discussion mainly to type two diabetes, with an initial distinction between the two below.

Type One:

If you are a type one diabetic, that means for some unknown reason your body’s immune system has malfunctioned. Some schools of thought have postulated that the protein in milk may be a mirror image of the body’s beta cells. When the immune system detects this protein, it views the protein as an invader such as a virus.

Viruses normally trigger an immune response. Since most viruses have a protein outer coat, it is not a far stretch to think that the cow’s milk protein might trigger that same response. And, since it resembles the beta cells in the pancreas—which makes the insulin the body needs to escort sugar from the blood into muscle cells—this could be the trigger that cascades into juvenile or type one diabetes. It is not thought that type one has any genetic component at all: just the draw of the cards.

Type Two Diabetes:

It is puzzling why some doctors want to treat both type one and two diabetics with insulin. The two diseases are not even the same disease. Type one is a disease of no or not enough insulin. Type two is a disease of too much insulin caused by insulin resistance. Which will be discussed in a future article. These two diseases initially should not be treated the same. I say initially because it is possible a type two diabetic could leave his/her blood sugar uncontrolled for so long that the beta cells wear out. However, even if that may seem to be the case in some instances, most of the time it is not the issue at all.

Sometimes the beta cells are so tired they just stop working. While they are not completely destroyed, they may produce very little or no insulin. An inexperienced doctor, just going by what he was taught by pharmaceutical representatives in medical school, may mistakenly think the beta cells are all gone and consequently he may not even try to revive them. In that case, it would make total sense to start the patient on insulin right away especially if the patient initially presented in the state of ketoacidosis. In that state, the patient will die if not given insulin.

So, if the beta cells can be revived, how could that possibly be accomplished? Well, don’t ask most doctors, and certainly not most VA doctors. Many, if not most, doctors adhere to the mantra: “Diabetes is an incurable, and progressive disease…” Well, if you continue doing what you did to contract type two diabetes, that is true. If you eat like the government and the Diabetes Association have proclaimed for decades, yes: it is uncurable and progressive. But it does not have to be; and, you are the one who makes that decision: not your doctor, mother, brother…you and you alone.

So, what is that one decision that you and you alone must make? Lifestyle: what lifestyle you choose, what you choose to put or not put into your mouth. Whether to take a very brisk twenty-minute walk or not. Whether or not to go to the gym. These are all decisions that are yours to make. How about education? Yes, education is power: it is power to revolutionize your health and your life.

Want to know more? How about what one should eat to stave off or cure, cancer, type two diabetes, or heart disease? These diseases travel together. Did you ever consider why? Come back for our next article addressing the above concerns.

The staff at “Listen for the Trumpet” wishes you well and hopes you can put what you learn here to work bettering your life and well-being.

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