Hey Mic, I am a 60 year old guy who has eaten meat and junk for years,my friends are laughing at me,but I have been eating vegan for a week now,and the results are amazing,I feel 100% better.tonight it half an avocado,some temp-eh and asparagus I was skeptical at first but now I am convinced this is the best way to live. thanks
In terms of information about general health as well as diabetes treatment method, I find this DiabetesTreatment48.blogspot.com easy to follow and extremely sensible. Through this program, you could change your diet and lifestyle without being particular about your carb or calorie. My transition to a healthier lifestyle has not just helped me shed pounds but also recover from diabetic issues as well as high blood pressure! It`s factual that you truly could change diabetes..?
@mod trend well, I'd be willing to bet a large sum of money that anyone who lives a long time and doesn't get killed by someone or an accident, will die of some disease some day. No surprise there. As for your guarantees, I'd refer to science: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5466941/ www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30229314
@mod trend or how do I explain my meat-eating grandparents' deaths from chronic disease at their early sixties? Or Esselstyn's apparent very good health at 85? You could add Colin Campbell there too, also 85. Or you could read why and how anecdotes are not a reliable source of evidence when compared to cohort or clinical studies. Although if you disregard the latter and use quotations to imply they are not scientific, I wonder what's your basis to "guarantee" that all vegans will get fatal diseases because of "high insulin/glucose spikes". Care to share that evidence here? In any case, you *can* be unhealthy and vegan, no controversy there. You can eat mostly refined and processed foods, lots of sugar, salt, edible oils, not get enough b12 or omega3's, and make a lot of unhealthy choices unrelated to your diet. Do you agree that's pretty different from what' being advocated as a whole-food plant-based diet here? The term vegan only tells you what somebody doesn't eat, not what s/he eats, drinks, smokes or anything else.
@mod trend You started off by equating the sugar spikes of eating bananas or pizza (white flour) with any "high carb meals". I pointed out that Mic's high-carb oatmeal breakfast did not and usually does not cause sugar spikes, because of its low glycemic index, in spite of its high carbohydrate content. To which you don't reply directly, but choose to keep talking about "dangerously high levels" of blood sugar, that, according to you, follow the consumption of "most plant based fruits, starches and grains". You have not provided any evidence of this. But despite that, you go on to claim that vegans "will die of some disease some day" and "guarantee" it most likely will be because of high insulin/glucose spikes, unavoidable on a vegan diet, as you seem to believe. Of course, again, you provide no evidence to back it up. I then link to scientific papers showing the protective effects of plant-based diets against type 2 diabetes (which is the exact *opposite* of what you claimed.) And how do you respond? That a vegan guy died age 66... OF A HEART ATTACK! See what you do? You make unsubstantiated claims, make no effort to back them up with any data, and then change the subject completely, take an anecdote to make a claim about an unrelated subject, and start talking about what "you vegans" do or say, when I haven't even said that "meat causes disease". This is not how a reasonable conversation is supposed to take place.
Hey Mic! As a type 1 vegan diabetic I really appreciate this experiment. We obviously have more highs then you but your sugars were really great! Way to go! I'm still hopefull for a cure soon!! Thanks for all you do! 😊
Abbs read about Anthony Williams the medical medium, he may have some answers for you. Lots of stuff on TH-cam and his books are on Amazon. Good luck :) Sherrie
Yes, I felt so bad for his poor fingers. Our finger pads are the most sensitive, sides of the finger pad please. While it was fun to watch someone figure it out, being a nurse I couldn't help but cringe.
Generally you dont want to touch the end of the strip that reads the blood and you should wipe the first drop of blood off your finger. This avoids bad readings.
@@Trthsker24 sorry I just saw this. Not everyone does this but it is some hospitals policies. Theoretically it's because the first drop contains fluids from the tissue as well as blood. It's just a simple step to make the reading more accurate. Also make sure your fingers are clean if you just ate
Still keeps amazing me how simple, vegan foods like blueberries and cinnamon can be super delicious but at the same time be just SO GOOD for your body as well. It doesn't get much better than that tbh
@@kulataHi, diabetic here. I have better results with HIGH CARB LOW FAT!! The proof is in the numbers. I did keto, I ended up with pancreatitis and blood sugars in the 300s! Cholesterol through the roof. I couldn’t eat any carbs at all. Life sucked and I was in so much pain. Eating 30 grams or less, about 10 per meal at the time, maybe up to 50 on occasion. I would never recommend low carb to a diabetic. It’s just continuing to break their metabolism. The longer I’m doing this, the more carbs I can eat because I’m fixing my body rather than pouring fuel (fat) on the fire. I went from 3 diabetes medications to 1, I’m soon to be none as my average glucose is down to 117 ON A HIGH CARB DIET. Let me say that again, I, a brittle diabetic, have a average blood glucose of 117 today due to a high carb diet. Did you hear me yet?
@@donellwilliams715why eat less fruit? I eat 3-4 servings of fruits a day!!!! My average blood sugar went from 350 eating only the rare low carb berries to 117 eating all the fruits. EAT YOUR FRUIT!
I have had symptoms of hypoglycemia, intermittent low-blood sugar episodes with weakness, hunger, sweating and fatigue, since 1976. They vary in intensity, and they are less frequent and less intense since I became a vegan. I have NEVER thought of doing this! I feel so shtoopid! Thanks for the inspiration to try testing.
I am soooooo facinated by this experiment, how fun! I'd be interested to see another of these from you. I appreciate that you aren't trying to confirm any biases and truely want to discover and play around.
I had thought about it as well, but one, I hate needles of any sort, and two, my blood sugar has never been wonky enough to bother. Still an interesting vid. I sure as hell couldn't poke myself 50 times for a video. Or anything else...LOL
I'm loving the new Mic the Vegan 'regular voice mode.' IMO, it makes the videos 1000% more pleasant to watch. Not that your other videos weren't good, I just like your normal tone of voice that much better. All the best.
I'd be interested to see how the amla would affect a meal of just bananas, since that one seemed to really spike your blood sugars! Great video, and really just "goes to show"! Whole starches, for the win!! PS Dr Greger recently posted a video that talks about how beans and legumes have the "second meal" effect. Eating beans will keep your blood sugars regulated far longer most other foods, and you can even see the results of that the next morning! That might have been what you were seeing with the Ethiopian meal.
Wow that’s explains a lot! I used to do the HCLF Freelee diet and after 10 bananas in the morning I would not only be starving an hour later, but I would be tired and sleepy! I always thought it was just bc fruit gets digested faster but I never made the connection to blood sugar. Thankfully I now eat steel cut oats and berries every morning so that’s not a problem anymore 😊😊 Great video Mic!
I did the same tests after meals to find which foods spiked my blood sugars. I stopped eating as much fruit as I was for breakfast. I had a couple 200 levels after eating a banana, some grapes and a couple of nectarines first thing. My standard meal of steamed brussel sprouts, broccoli, mushrooms, onions, carrots, green beans, and rice or potato, usually only spiked at 150. Not bad for 63 year old with less than half a pancreas. I've been fighting stage four pancreatic cancer for six years. I've had four major abdominal surgeries and two rounds of Y90 glass beads. I'm sort of a science experiment with all the spare parts removed; 5/8 of my pancreas, spleen, one foot of upper colon, 8 inches of lower colon, gallbladder, appendix, 5/8 of liver, twenty lymph nodes, part of left kidney, and a half dozen small tumors off my pelvic wall. The crazy thing is I have no side effects from all these parts missing. I went plant based 90 days ago and I've lost 25 pounds, my cholesterol went from 255 to 155, LDL went from 158 to 78. I never feel hungry between meals and feel like I'm twenty years old again. My last two scans found a couple small tumors in my liver but are growing very slowly. It will be interesting to see on my next scan if they have grown any since I went plant based....
@@ladysaw9995 It will be ten years since since being diagnosed and I'v been in remission for over five years now since going vegan. A1C runs around 5.7 to 6.0, LDL 69 to 75. I'm down 55 pounds and my wife lost over 100 lbs and has kept it off. The crazy thing is the last three tumors that I had a couple years before switching my diet disappeared on the scans. My oncologist sad he's never seen it happen. The plaques in my heart found on the scans six years ago have also disappeared and I feel great all the time.
@@waynebusse6376 That is so interestin. Woud you mind telling what you are eating now. I tire to heal myself with juicing and raw food and low fat now. But I m very underweight. Feel quite lost🌸
@@littlebird3976 Still on wfpb , no new tumors since 2017 when I went vegan. Last three tumors disappeared from scans three years ago. Last blood work results , ldl 69 triglycerides 86, A1C 5.7. I'm feeling great and work around 16 hrs a day here on the farm.
awesome, we share some similarities. One thing i found helps with a WFPB life is to break up your meal. eat a portion 1/2 maybe, then pause for 15 minutes or so before finishing the rest. Helps keep it a bit more steady! GL
Bananas and mangoes are one of the worse offenders to raise blood sugar rapidly. I had saw another video with a diabetic with controlled sugar . He saw his blood sugar raise to 210 mg /dL from around 110 in half an hour with just 2 bananas . He did another video with one banana , one apple and one mango with him and his wife ( who isn’t diabetic) . Not only he got again a rise into the 210 ( from around 90) . But her had a rise to 180 ( from a normal 82 ) in half an hour.
But they look and seem to be most perfect natural food . Easy to grow and pluck, fruits quickly, goes with most other foods and does not need to be cleaned. Maybe best is to pair it with a low gi food like nuts, barley, chick peas
I found your video very interesting. I’ve been a t1 diabetic for over 30 years. I liked being able to see how a non diabetic’s blood sugar reacted to different meals. I wanted to reach through the screen to help you test your sugar but you figured it out. For several months now I have been using a continuous glucose monitor called the Dexcom G6. It has a sensor that attaches to you and you get a display of your sugar every 5 minutes. There’s also a less expensive but not as versatile (in my opinion) option called the Freestyle Libre. I think it would be very interesting to see you on one of those, but they’d both be a bit expensive to try. Anyway, I just wanted to mention one more thing. So many things can influence your response to different foods. I find breakfast influences lunch, lunch influences dinner and so on because my insulin and food have not completely left my system by the time I’m ready for my next meal. Perhaps that’s why some of your results weren’t consistent. Thanks for the video and keep up the great work.
Very interesting! Also, I've recently learned that a night of bad sleep can make your body "insulin resistant" all the next day. And stress can spike blood glucose even without eating anything at all. Crazy!
I've been prediabetic all my adult life, so I'm hoping eating WFPB brings my blood glucose numbers down. Thank you for doing this with me! Rice seems to spike my sugar the worst.
Kimberley Davis If you had it at an Asian restaurant or with store bought sauce, the sauce might be the real culprit. But yeah white rice is quite processed. Brown rice is supposedly better but I don't like the taste much so it's wild rice for me (which has decent amount of proteins too). Good luck getting back to healthy blood sugar levels!
White rice in sushi or with That chili vegetables. I've never been a huge fan of rice but if I'm going out to eat sushi is a nice option, they even have brown rice sushi now. I don't eat grains on a regular basis anyway but whole grains are my first choice when I'm cooking.
I had vegetable sushi tonight (avocado, carrots and cucumber wrapped in seaweed and white rice) and my sugar spiked to 164 after 1 hour, 155 after 2 hrs. My fasting blood sugar this morning was 84. I couldn't believe how high it went from such a small amount of white rice.
Stabbing your finger a little more towards the side instead of right in the middle is what I learned years ago with gestational diabetes. Side note: You look like you're bulking up since I started watching you a few months ago 👍😁
Hi! You really should change your channel name to "Mic. The dying Vegan" since you are dying because lack of dietary cholestrol and too many carbs. Just joking
Aksu Saa you may be joking but I was actually scolded by a crazy keto guy who basically lived on lard (not kidding), cream and bacon, and who claimed that my total cholesterol of 145 mg/dl = 3.75 mmol/l is dangerously low and I would be hospitalized for it in some countries (...no).
Mic, you may be pre-diabetic. Please have some blood testing, including an A1c, C-Peptide and Fasting Insulin level. Your fasting blood sugar and post-prandial levels are too high.
@The Unknown Thats not right He had higher number due to insulin resistance Thats pre diebetic buddy Idk about you but him and vegan gains all diebetic and most vegans are addicted to carbs Aint good Eat butter where it doesnt spike the insulin and be happy
You made me laugh (in sympathy) at 6:12 when you said: "I actually stabbed myself at 9 one of the times, and that is why it hurt a little bit". Your video is well done and interesting to watch. Thank you for posting it.
Hi Mic...Love your channel. In one of your blood sugar tests with a couple bananas, apple, and peach (I believe) your blood sugar spiked to 204, but other foods showed good blood glucose control. If I may suggest, it is most likely one of those foods are a "trigger" for you. The only time my blood sugar rises to over 130 is when I eat sweet potato for breakfast...then it rises to about 155. My last A1c was 5.1 and I've been a vegan (except for the occasional unavoidable cheese) for 50 years and my yearly complete blood work lab tests (required for my job) have always come back "text book perfect" for over 30 years. I will be 70 in a couple months, but am more active than most people half my age (heading out right now for some mountain biking). I suggest you take a look at this study: Personalized Nutrition by Prediction of Glycemic Responses. Cell, 2015
@@ravireddyism More than adequate protein is obtained from a diet rich in nuts, beans, and whole grains. Olive oil and some coconut supply the essential omega components. Many top athletes are vegan or vegetarian. Check out "Blue Zones", which details how beans are the one food that all the longest lived people seem to have in common. In my opinion, though, whether you are a vegan or not, the most important factor is staying away from processed foods...I really do believe processed foods are behind the epidemic of obesity and health problems that are so prevalent in America. Now 73, my last set of bloo dwork still came back "textbook perfect". My doctor keeps ordering all these tests every year for my annual physical. She doesn't believe in a vegetarian diet and keeps thinking that there must be something wrong with me. Lol.
You're so bright and it's a joy to watch you. I tried the lance myself a few times but im too muchh of a wuss and didn't like the pain. You've confirmed my suspitions about bananas! Very helpful vid, thanks Mic
Oh my goodness, I get anxiety every time you take your blood. (I'm terrible at getting needles and getting blood drawn, but those finger pokes are the worst!)
Oh I just recently found out that I have type 2 diabetes, and now I’m just frustrated with all those pills. But I’m a whole food vegan, so hoping that I can handle this
Don't give up. My blood sugar was off the charts crazy high. 500+ I had to defy my doctor to try to get it under control through vegan diet alone when he wanted to send me to the hospital. I'm still diabetic but mostly in the 150-225 range with brief spikes in the 300's that drop after a couple hours but the trend is getting better. On my good days I'm down to 117 or so. I read Dr Jason Fung's books The Obesity Code, and the Diabetes Code and watched his interviews on youtube. I only eat one or two meals a day most days within a four to six hour period which helped a lot. Drinking a tablespoon or two of apple cider vinegar mixed in tomato juice before I eat also seems to make a difference. I did a 12 day water fast and my blood sugar was down to 105 after five days but went back up after I began eating again. I've since done a few 24 to 48 hour fasts which always get my blood sugar down to the 105-117 range. I've probably been diabetic over ten years so it isn't going to be fixed overnight. I think it just takes time and persistence.
I should mention I had the worst imaginable diet.. sugar soda, pizza, fried chicken, eggs and bacon.. and I was a sugar addict.. smarties, twizzlers, skittles, donuts or cookies for breakfast.. fourth meal at Taco Bell.. The 500+ blood sugar test at the Doctors office was a wake-up call. I'll probably owe my life to the Vegan You tubers if I get past this but it seems it's never too late to start living healthy as long as you're still breathing.
I don't know... I'm pretty new to healthy living heh. I've watched hours of interviews with doctors who advocate high fat low carb.. or high carb low fat and insist the opposing viewpoint is wrong. I tried Paleo once and lost weight. The take I get from the debate is that both approaches work in lowering blood sugar it's when you mix a lot of sugar and a lot of fat that you are in trouble. The advantage seems to be with the vegans though... meat brings with it a lot of other health issues... I didn't even give any thought to possible ethical issues until I started watching the Vegan TH-camrs and I'm still not sure how I feel about it... but you can be high fat low carb on a vegan plant based diet if you want to go that route. I just try to keep all the processed food out of my diet now. I'm not a good cook and I get bored with eating salad so it's hard for me to stick to it but I try. Somewhere along the line somebody said processed oils are bad because they are almost always rancid by the time you consume them. I take that to mean get your oil from eating coconuts, avocados, sunflower seeds, flax seeds, ripe olives etc... I'm pretty sure we need some oil in our diets but I don't think we need processed oil.
I've had type 1 diabetes for 14 years, so I've been through a few meters over the years. The "no coding" thing is something that we had to do in the "olden days". :P Most monitors don't need it anymore. It basically just means that for every new box of test strip you opened, you got a special strip that you had to use first in the meter before testing your blood. That strip had maybe the code "10" (it was usually a two or three digit number) and when you stuck the strip in the meter, it set the meter to the code 10. This allowed the meter to use all the blood test strips in the package that had the code 10 written on. If you didn't correctly code your meter before using new strips, then you couldn't rely on the accuracy of the blood tests. :) Just a fyi, when you test your fingers, you need to wash or lick (I know, gross) your fingers before bleeding, because if you've touched anything sweet before, then it will influence the result. Also, only the little, ring and middle finger are recommended to be used. I use my left ring finger the most. It's also easier and causes less pain when you stab yourself on the side of the pad and on right on top of the pad. And you also have to push upwards towards the hole you just poked, in a "milking" motion so you increase the blood pressure at the tip of the finger. :) Another note I would like to add. Bananas are crazy fast acting carbs - almost as fast as regular candy. It's literally withing 2 to 5 minutes that you can see a difference. I have a CGM (continuous glucose monitor) as well, so I can see what my BG is 24/7 so I see all those weird ups and downs that can happen. I can't eat more than half a banana at a time, because the synthetic insulin I use doesn't act fast enough to catch the spike if I eat more. The "pressure" you were feeling very well may be the blood sugar spike. I can feel "pressure" or tightness in my muscles (especially in my legs) when my blodsugar goes over 10 or 11 mmol/L (180 to 200 mg/dL).
Jaafar A Blessings bro. That's awesome. Add some running and weight lifting to that began diet and you'll totally transform your life. Also meditation and asking your self the deeper questions about spirituality. Also they fortify meat with B12 so you're gonna wanna take that under the tongue everyday or every other to keep that in range. Cheers! :)
I do love eating lots of fruit for breakfast but I definitely notice that I get hungry much quicker than if I have oats or muesli with things like nuts and Chia seeds! Late night eating is a habit I should probablyy think about 😅
D A N I This isnt scientific at all as he said tests like this should effect how you live your life Every whole plant food without saturated fat is healthy even for diabetic people You are probably hungry quick bc fruit has less calories, fiber and more water
I ate an almost 100% fruit diet from June 2017 to October 2017, and felt amazing doing it. I just turned 40, my father's a diabetic, my sister just had gestational diabetes...and my A1C in October was 4.3 (ave BS 76). This December 2017 I added in some starches as optimal fruit options diminished, and when I had my A1C checked in March 2018 it was 4.6 (ave BS 86). I've never done on the spot post prandial checks but I have to say my experience has only been positive eating primarily fruit...no crashes, good energy, high vibe...and still only needing to eat 2, sometimes 3 times a day with 16 to 18 hour fasts. And for what it's worth my triglycerides were 74 at that time. Just thought I'd share my experience. Seems like a shame to vilify fruit after 2 readings, and you're just assuming which one was the "wrong" one. I'm an RN, and after I clean someone's finger with alcohol I wipe it dry before testing since the alcohol sugars can technically effect a reading. Not sure what you cleaned your fingers with, but just a thought on how simple things can make a difference.
This was so interesting! I knew that diabetics need to check their blood sugar levels, but never thought about checking mine. I wonder what would happen if you ate the bananas with cinnamon? Would the cinnamon keep your glucose levels from spiking? Also, I be interested to see what happens after eating 10 marshmallows? And... no I didn't just eat 10 marshmallows! ...I only had 7.
Hi Mic, a blood glucose meter measures glucose, and not fructose which is the sugar in fruit, but fruit does have carbs. I did 1 week fruit only, and my blood sugar levels were in the 80s and 90s that week and hadn’t been under 103 in 2 decades when I had my routine tests, it was more like 115 - 136 those years. Next time I have a routine lab test scheduled I will eat only fruit for one or two days. I also found eating late at night increases my morning blood sugar. I have also been drinking 8 oz fresh grapefruit juice I juice I. My citrus juicer with 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar the last 8 months, and that is what started me on the fruit journey. I had always believed to much fruit bad for you, but just the opposite. Also make sure to get a good blood glucose monitor. I used the FreeStyle Lite, my first one was 15 -20 or more points off. Just to note I am not diagnosed as diabetic, was just doing routine testing like you.
Thanks for doing this video! I'm diabetic, since age 16 (now 42) and it was pretty funny to see you fumble with the tools I use everyday. We went vegan almost a year ago and I have been really happy with my previously out of control blood sugar. This was great! Thank you for always being scientific and doing real research about these types of topics.
Very interesting. You should also account for hydration in your results. There is such a thing as relative hyper and hypo blood levels due to hydration levels. (I’m an RN in hot and humid Miami and fluid balance plays a big part in diabetes management here) Also, the reason you can fast and not bottom out is because you have preserved insulin receptors and your body actually knows when to tap into your glycogen stores. Love your videos....Informative and entertaining!
Had to switch from vegan to keto because as a vegan, my blood sugars regularly and often times went into the 150’s and 160’s. Now doing keto, my blood sugars stay under 110 after meals. Rice, beans and lentils really elevated my blood glucose but chicken and eggs did not.
Per the ADA-Diabetes and obesity is caused by insulin resistance which is the build up of animal fats in cells that are not meant to store it. This causes insulin levels to rise and glucose levels in the blood to rise because it cannot enter into the cells. Same diets for 60 years!. Atkins, south each, zone diet, paleo, ketogenic, carnivore, lion. All have the same effect and increase levels on insulin resistance.
I tried doing the banana only mono meals, a handful of times past 5 years. And every time I think I should try to revisit it, my body is like 'what the hell are you doing?!' I get nauseated and my energy levels completely tank. It's even worse when it's in liquid form. And trust me I've tried adding blueberries or raw chocolate powder, and it doesn't help with the nausea. So I only eat maybe a couple of bananas a day, sometimes with a nutbutter, and that helps. I also can't eat cooked oats; and overnight oats sometimes push it. Another nausia/drop of energy issue. I have been tested for diabetes more times and I can explain. I am not diabetic. Great experiment.
I don't have problems with snacking on whole fruit like apples or bananas. Fiber is what blunts blood sugar spikes, not fat. I do prefer to mix fruits and starches with other foods. For healthy fats and starch on a WFPB diet I eat: >Breakfast- Ground flax and walnuts on my oatmeal >Snack- Nuts and home made trail mix >Lunch- Peanut butter or a tempeh (No added fats listed, but significant fat in the Nutrition Facts.) sandwich. Whole wheat pasta and legumes (with nutritional yeast) >Dinner- Avocado and tahini or sesame seeds on my salad. Rice and beans, of course.
That's funny. I can eat as many as 12 bananas for one meal and it has no negative effect on me at all. If you can't eat that many bananas and feel fine, you might be eating too much fat. I can eat up to 7 pounds of russet potatoes in one meal as well with some greens, and I feel fine.
No whole food will at all be a problem for your blood sugar if you are healthy and it doesnt have denatured or saturated fat Research is much more a reference point than mikes little experiments here as he said himself
I'm curious to see the way they react since the bananas had the effect they did. I do eat dates every day aswell. He said to post foods to try so that's what I did!
So is dried fruit all right? because i can'y get ahold of dates in any other form but i heard most dried fruits actually spike blood sugar a lot, raisins esp
The GlykoMark test is the best for showing those hidden spikes. It won’t tell you numbers but it shows how your body is responding to glucose levels, and if there are a lot of peaks and valleys that aren’t showing up on finger sticks. The A1C was always the standard but combined with the glykomark you can really understand your control as a diabetic. For example I had an A1c of 5.2 which for a type 1 is rockstar level! But my glykomark showed I was having a lot of spikes. My finger sticks we’re catching the lows after the spike. This helped me refine my dietary choices to optimize my glucose levels. I don’t know how the glykomark would work for a non-diabetic but it might be something to look into. Unless you can borrow someone’s continuous glucose monitor for a week. Then you’d see everything.
Mic, just for grins and giggles today I had a veggie meal, Lima beans, collards, rutabaga and some green beans. After 2 hours my glucose was 180, to many carbs even though it was a veggie meal. I've been more on the keto/carnivore. I started a 48 hr fast a few weeks ago and my glucose at the beginning was 128, I checked it after 24 hrs and it was 110, at the end it was 98. They say the ketone will release glucose on their own. I never got to 90. I can go 24 hrs on a regular basis without eating when I just stick to a high fat low carb diet. O and my blood pressure has dropped considerably since I got off sugar and went to internet fasting went keto. 🙃
Yeah if you have a fasting blood sugar of 128 and it takes 24 hours just to get to 110 then that's a red flag that your insulin resistant which keto has been shown over and over again from my observation to not fix, any fasting (3+ hours after a meal) blood sugar of over 100 is already considered of impaired insulin sensitivity.
@@davfar459 Go watch the youtube channel "Beat Diabetes" which proves that Low carb High Fat diets do work, Dennis Pollock shows his blood glucose throughout his meals.
And Costco has organic cracked Coach's Oats ( which I'm totally hooked on). Very interested to see if cracked, steel cut and rolled have different glycemic properties. Thanks!
@Molson Muscle exactly until it does not any more because of all sugary stuff. Even non diabetics should think about not spiking the BS if they don't want a chronic disease
I used to have a smoothie for dinner - 1 banana, a half of a papaya amd a few strawberries and my blood sugar would be like 120 2 hours after the smoothie. That was too high for my paranoid mind so no more smoothies for me.
I’ve been eating a mostly plant based diet for the past 2 weeks now, and the effect on my blood sugar levels has been amazing. I’m a type 1 diabetic, so this has benefited me immensely. My average blood glucose has been 110 mg/dL for the past two weeks (as told by information from my continuous glucose monitor), and those are numbers that diabetics only usually dream of. Despite still eating tons of carbs, my body does not react to the same way. Now my blood sugar “spikes” end up in the 180s, instead of 300+. I’m seeing massive health benefits from switching to a plant based diet, and I finally feel like I’m sticking by my morals as well. Thank you for being such a great part in the vegan community, and for helping to educate everyone who comes in contact with you videos. You’re awesome!
Interesting how well your body reacted to the Ethiopian food. Did you have them change anything when you ordered it, because Ethiopian stews/sauces are typically cooked with clarified butter and oils?
Blood glucose levels are naturally higher in the morning for everyone, so the same carbs eaten at breakfast vs eaten in the afternoon may affect your blood sugar differently. I use an insulin pump and have a totally different level basal insulin throughout the day, and also my carb to insulin ratio is highest at breakfast and then drops off throughout the day as my sensitivity and activity level increases
That's why I eat plenty of fruit to stabilize my blood glucose levels so I won't binge eat from having a sugar crash. That's probably why I've lost 24 kilograms in the last couple of months, my aim is to drop down from 93 kilos down to 75 as I still have a bit of fat on my hips. Most of the weight I've lost has been from my butt & thighs,I have lost about an inch of fat from my waist.
I had same mitigated results with morning fruit salads breakfasts : Some days, my blood sugars was super stable and stayed under 100, some other days I had a spikes over 150 ..... All that with the same kind and amount of fruits.... It seems a lot of things can influence the blood sugar response of a meal , including : - the previous meal - how well we slept at night - last time we exerciced - .... Anyway , it's nice to experiment by ourself ;)
Yes, you must have missed the high spike with the first set of bananas! They are definitely a higher glycemic count. People with diabetes are advised to eat either no bananas or never more than a half banana.
I have hypoglycemia and the only foods that really make me feel like my blood sugar is in a good range is steel cut oatmeal with blueberries in it. That or a ton of broccoli
Hey Mic, LearningtobeFearless has recently decided she wants to loose weight. She’s using weight watchers. Weight watchers works on a point system; certain “healthy” foods such as eggs are zero points as a way to encourage users to eat more healthy foods. Things like turkey bacon are also low in points. Can you do a video on how much of a disservice weight watchers is doing?
I’m really confused. When I was eating meat my fasting was 85 and A1c 5.7. Been Whole food vegan for 3 years and my fasting is 115 and my A1c is 5.1. Shit makes no sense lol
I would sleep at the blood test laboratory if i was you 😶 Well my fasting was always 95 and hac1 was 5.6 When i decided to walk everyday and exercice push ups and get rid of pepsi and junk food .. ironically my fasting went up to 113 and 110 2 hours after eating.. what on earth is that!!! And hey.. still 110 after 40 mins of walking in summer lol
Could you test Cantaloupe, Honey Dew, Watermelon, plain Mango, Cucumbers?? Like different combinations together... I'm really curious! P.S love the channel!!!
Eating only simple sugars like bananas and other fruits gives a tonne of energy fast, but you'll burn that up in no time and end up hungry for more within two hours sometimes even faster, that's exactly my experience too. So if I want to stay raw during the day I eat sprouted buckwheat, quinoa, seeds, beans and lentils to keep satisfied longer, also, beans reduce the sugar spike from simple sugars.
why you think, you "burn(t) that up in no time" ? more likely, you ate yourself hungry. i experience the same (from high carb meals in general, but especially after bananas), and i more and more wonder, whether this actually can be good.
That was so helpful Mic. I've been getting headaches lately and found out my fasting a1c is 104, so that suggests I'm consuming too much sugar. Thank you!
Caretouch comes with a calibrated standard. Insert that first. Every batch of test strips comes with one. If you don’t use the calibrated standard, the meter uses the last known standard as a background.
This was actually one of my favorite videos youve done. I’ve always been really curious about fruitarian blood sugar levels so it’d be nice if you followed up more on that.
Quick tip: if you're struggling to get blood after "stabbing" yourself, place your hand in warm water for a minute or two just to heat it up. (Increased circulation etc.) You wont have to squeeze.
I have dark brown hair and a ginger beard too, idk why but seeing another dude rocking it makes me feel good!
#MeMeMetoo! Gingers unite!
James Cataldo
im sorry to say but it looks like shit.
should see some turkish dudes they sometimes naturally have a black beard with ginger, blond, white and brown in it really freaky
Fuckin freak
the infamous I'm sorry to say I don't really care what you think
I can’t wait to watch this! I wanted to do this video myself but I’m glad you did because I’m sure your insights are going be awesome. So cool.
Simnett Nutrition you should still do one
I hope you still do it Derek
Yeah, definitely do it. Nerding out on stuff like this is fascinating to watch.
Do it!
Please do it as well, Derek!
You don't know... until YOU PUT IT TO THE TEST.
1st Art Gallery com I read that in his voice 😂
As we'll find out... IN THE NEXT FRIGGIN' VIDEO😕😦😲😵😭
Lol so did I!!
But there was no such study.. UNTIL NOW.
Dr "until you put it to the test" gregor
Hey Mic, I am a 60 year old guy who has eaten meat and junk for years,my friends are laughing at me,but I have been eating vegan for a week now,and the results are amazing,I feel 100% better.tonight it half an avocado,some temp-eh and asparagus I was skeptical at first but now I am convinced this is the best way to live. thanks
Ron Stanley you are such an inspiration!!!! Way to go!
Ron Stanley ...Just an FYI...there are a ton of TH-cam vegan cooks who have simple to more elaborate recipes available, which has helped me a lot....🤓
Just make sure you're eating everything you need.
Awesome!
I'm so proud of you!!
I too eat alot of pizza. For science.
In terms of information about general health as well as diabetes treatment method, I find this DiabetesTreatment48.blogspot.com easy to follow and extremely sensible. Through this program, you could change your diet and lifestyle without being particular about your carb or calorie. My transition to a healthier lifestyle has not just helped me shed pounds but also recover from diabetic issues as well as high blood pressure! It`s factual that you truly could change diabetes..?
@mod trend the oatmeal breakfasts with no big spikes that Mic showed are pretty high in carbs.
@mod trend well, I'd be willing to bet a large sum of money that anyone who lives a long time and doesn't get killed by someone or an accident, will die of some disease some day. No surprise there. As for your guarantees, I'd refer to science: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5466941/
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30229314
@mod trend or how do I explain my meat-eating grandparents' deaths from chronic disease at their early sixties? Or Esselstyn's apparent very good health at 85? You could add Colin Campbell there too, also 85.
Or you could read why and how anecdotes are not a reliable source of evidence when compared to cohort or clinical studies.
Although if you disregard the latter and use quotations to imply they are not scientific, I wonder what's your basis to "guarantee" that all vegans will get fatal diseases because of "high insulin/glucose spikes".
Care to share that evidence here?
In any case, you *can* be unhealthy and vegan, no controversy there. You can eat mostly refined and processed foods, lots of sugar, salt, edible oils, not get enough b12 or omega3's, and make a lot of unhealthy choices unrelated to your diet.
Do you agree that's pretty different from what' being advocated as a whole-food plant-based diet here? The term vegan only tells you what somebody doesn't eat, not what s/he eats, drinks, smokes or anything else.
@mod trend You started off by equating the sugar spikes of eating bananas or pizza (white flour) with any "high carb meals". I pointed out that Mic's high-carb oatmeal breakfast did not and usually does not cause sugar spikes, because of its low glycemic index, in spite of its high carbohydrate content. To which you don't reply directly, but choose to keep talking about "dangerously high levels" of blood sugar, that, according to you, follow the consumption of "most plant based fruits, starches and grains".
You have not provided any evidence of this. But despite that, you go on to claim that vegans "will die of some disease some day" and "guarantee" it most likely will be because of high insulin/glucose spikes, unavoidable on a vegan diet, as you seem to believe. Of course, again, you provide no evidence to back it up.
I then link to scientific papers showing the protective effects of plant-based diets against type 2 diabetes (which is the exact *opposite* of what you claimed.) And how do you respond? That a vegan guy died age 66... OF A HEART ATTACK!
See what you do? You make unsubstantiated claims, make no effort to back them up with any data, and then change the subject completely, take an anecdote to make a claim about an unrelated subject, and start talking about what "you vegans" do or say, when I haven't even said that "meat causes disease". This is not how a reasonable conversation is supposed to take place.
Hey Mic! As a type 1 vegan diabetic I really appreciate this experiment. We obviously have more highs then you but your sugars were really great! Way to go! I'm still hopefull for a cure soon!! Thanks for all you do! 😊
Abbs read about Anthony Williams the medical medium, he may have some answers for you. Lots of stuff on TH-cam and his books are on Amazon. Good luck :)
Sherrie
PinkLotusHeart Thank you. I Will! 😊
Doctor Valter Longo is working toward reversing type 1 diabetes -- he was recently on the Rich Roll podcast which is available on youtube :)
Rebecca Marchand-Smith Oh Awesome! I'll look it up now. Thank you!
Abbs it was an awesome interview
yo Mic, stab side of finger , not the pad. Less pain and easier to extract blood. that is side next to nail not lower on finger
I wanted to say that too, LOL
Yep.
Yes, I felt so bad for his poor fingers. Our finger pads are the most sensitive, sides of the finger pad please. While it was fun to watch someone figure it out, being a nurse I couldn't help but cringe.
Tina Hodgson He must be a diabetic. If he's not he is a fucking dumbass
I’m a nurse and this ‘technique’ is KILLING ME watching it. I’m ridiculously camera shy and I’m almost feeling compelled to make a video.
This is making me rethink how I eat, for the better. Thank you, again for putting yourself out there for science 😊
Generally you dont want to touch the end of the strip that reads the blood and you should wipe the first drop of blood off your finger. This avoids bad readings.
Why, medically should you wipe the first blood?
@@Trthsker24 sorry I just saw this. Not everyone does this but it is some hospitals policies. Theoretically it's because the first drop contains fluids from the tissue as well as blood. It's just a simple step to make the reading more accurate. Also make sure your fingers are clean if you just ate
Still keeps amazing me how simple, vegan foods like blueberries and cinnamon can be super delicious but at the same time be just SO GOOD for your body as well. It doesn't get much better than that tbh
Balance it out with what ex-vegans say just to be safe
@@upup209 Which is?
Do you have Instagram Danu?
Blueberries and cinnamon are also available on the keto diet.
@@peterpiper487then you end up with heart problems.
I've been diabetic for almost 20 years. I would kill to have BG test results like yours. Incredible!
Do low carb. You'll get better blood sugar responses
Just eat less fruit and more vegetables try to eat no meat if you can
@@kulataHi, diabetic here. I have better results with HIGH CARB LOW FAT!! The proof is in the numbers.
I did keto, I ended up with pancreatitis and blood sugars in the 300s! Cholesterol through the roof. I couldn’t eat any carbs at all. Life sucked and I was in so much pain. Eating 30 grams or less, about 10 per meal at the time, maybe up to 50 on occasion.
I would never recommend low carb to a diabetic. It’s just continuing to break their metabolism. The longer I’m doing this, the more carbs I can eat because I’m fixing my body rather than pouring fuel (fat) on the fire. I went from 3 diabetes medications to 1, I’m soon to be none as my average glucose is down to 117 ON A HIGH CARB DIET. Let me say that again, I, a brittle diabetic, have a average blood glucose of 117 today due to a high carb diet. Did you hear me yet?
@@donellwilliams715why eat less fruit? I eat 3-4 servings of fruits a day!!!! My average blood sugar went from 350 eating only the rare low carb berries to 117 eating all the fruits. EAT YOUR FRUIT!
This was suuuuper interesting, I would like to see more!! Try with other foods such as rice or potatoes, people say that it spikes your glucose
I have had symptoms of hypoglycemia, intermittent low-blood sugar episodes with weakness, hunger, sweating and fatigue, since 1976. They vary in intensity, and they are less frequent and less intense since I became a vegan. I have NEVER thought of doing this! I feel so shtoopid! Thanks for the inspiration to try testing.
I am soooooo facinated by this experiment, how fun! I'd be interested to see another of these from you. I appreciate that you aren't trying to confirm any biases and truely want to discover and play around.
I thought about doing this myself but was like nah, don't want to stab myself so much. Thanks for taking 1...2,3,20,40 for the team!
I had thought about it as well, but one, I hate needles of any sort, and two, my blood sugar has never been wonky enough to bother. Still an interesting vid. I sure as hell couldn't poke myself 50 times for a video. Or anything else...LOL
I'm loving the new Mic the Vegan 'regular voice mode.' IMO, it makes the videos 1000% more pleasant to watch. Not that your other videos weren't good, I just like your normal tone of voice that much better. All the best.
I'd be interested to see how the amla would affect a meal of just bananas, since that one seemed to really spike your blood sugars! Great video, and really just "goes to show"! Whole starches, for the win!!
PS Dr Greger recently posted a video that talks about how beans and legumes have the "second meal" effect. Eating beans will keep your blood sugars regulated far longer most other foods, and you can even see the results of that the next morning! That might have been what you were seeing with the Ethiopian meal.
Wow that’s explains a lot! I used to do the HCLF Freelee diet and after 10 bananas in the morning I would not only be starving an hour later, but I would be tired and sleepy! I always thought it was just bc fruit gets digested faster but I never made the connection to blood sugar. Thankfully I now eat steel cut oats and berries every morning so that’s not a problem anymore 😊😊 Great video Mic!
blueberries with rice and lentils 🤢
😂😂😂
Fr lmao a cultured person would NEVER 💀
I did the same tests after meals to find which foods spiked my blood sugars. I stopped eating as much fruit as I was for breakfast. I had a couple 200 levels after eating a banana, some grapes and a couple of nectarines first thing. My standard meal of steamed brussel sprouts, broccoli, mushrooms, onions, carrots, green beans, and rice or potato, usually only spiked at 150. Not bad for 63 year old with less than half a pancreas. I've been fighting stage four pancreatic cancer for six years. I've had four major abdominal surgeries and two rounds of Y90 glass beads. I'm sort of a science experiment with all the spare parts removed; 5/8 of my pancreas, spleen, one foot of upper colon, 8 inches of lower colon, gallbladder, appendix, 5/8 of liver, twenty lymph nodes, part of left kidney, and a half dozen small tumors off my pelvic wall.
The crazy thing is I have no side effects from all these parts missing. I went plant based 90 days ago and I've lost 25 pounds, my cholesterol went from 255 to 155, LDL went from 158 to 78. I never feel hungry between meals and feel like I'm twenty years old again. My last two scans found a couple small tumors in my liver but are growing very slowly. It will be interesting to see on my next scan if they have grown any since I went plant based....
Hello. How are you doing so far?
@@ladysaw9995 It will be ten years since since being diagnosed and I'v been in remission for over five years now since going vegan. A1C runs around 5.7 to 6.0, LDL 69 to 75. I'm down 55 pounds and my wife lost over 100 lbs and has kept it off. The crazy thing is the last three tumors that I had a couple years before switching my diet disappeared on the scans. My oncologist sad he's never seen it happen. The plaques in my heart found on the scans six years ago have also disappeared and I feel great all the time.
@@waynebusse6376 That is so interestin. Woud you mind telling what you are eating now. I tire to heal myself with juicing and raw food and low fat now. But I m very underweight. Feel quite lost🌸
@@littlebird3976 Still on wfpb , no new tumors since 2017 when I went vegan. Last three tumors disappeared from scans three years ago. Last blood work results , ldl 69 triglycerides 86, A1C 5.7. I'm feeling great and work around 16 hrs a day here on the farm.
awesome, we share some similarities. One thing i found helps with a WFPB life is to break up your meal. eat a portion 1/2 maybe, then pause for 15 minutes or so before finishing the rest. Helps keep it a bit more steady! GL
Bananas and mangoes are one of the worse offenders to raise blood sugar rapidly. I had saw another video with a diabetic with controlled sugar . He saw his blood sugar raise to 210 mg /dL from around 110 in half an hour with just 2 bananas . He did another video with one banana , one apple and one mango with him and his wife ( who isn’t diabetic) . Not only he got again a rise into the 210 ( from around 90) . But her had a rise to 180 ( from a normal 82 ) in half an hour.
But they look and seem to be most perfect natural food . Easy to grow and pluck, fruits quickly, goes with most other foods and does not need to be cleaned. Maybe best is to pair it with a low gi food like nuts, barley, chick peas
Wow. So even non diabetic person blood glucose can rise so many with fruits as well.
I found your video very interesting. I’ve been a t1 diabetic for over 30 years. I liked being able to see how a non diabetic’s blood sugar reacted to different meals. I wanted to reach through the screen to help you test your sugar but you figured it out. For several months now I have been using a continuous glucose monitor called the Dexcom G6. It has a sensor that attaches to you and you get a display of your sugar every 5 minutes. There’s also a less expensive but not as versatile (in my opinion) option called the Freestyle Libre. I think it would be very interesting to see you on one of those, but they’d both be a bit expensive to try. Anyway, I just wanted to mention one more thing. So many things can influence your response to different foods. I find breakfast influences lunch, lunch influences dinner and so on because my insulin and food have not completely left my system by the time I’m ready for my next meal. Perhaps that’s why some of your results weren’t consistent. Thanks for the video and keep up the great work.
I can BARELY eat one banana in one sitting. I can't even imagine eating 5 or more.
Green bananas are low GI foods. You had ripe bananas. They're high GI foods. When they're green, they have more "resistant starch".
Very interesting! Also, I've recently learned that a night of bad sleep can make your body "insulin resistant" all the next day. And stress can spike blood glucose even without eating anything at all. Crazy!
I've been prediabetic all my adult life, so I'm hoping eating WFPB brings my blood glucose numbers down. Thank you for doing this with me! Rice seems to spike my sugar the worst.
Kimberley Davis If you had it at an Asian restaurant or with store bought sauce, the sauce might be the real culprit. But yeah white rice is quite processed. Brown rice is supposedly better but I don't like the taste much so it's wild rice for me (which has decent amount of proteins too). Good luck getting back to healthy blood sugar levels!
What have you been eating your rice with? A lot of time, that's the real issue.
Molson Muscle good points.
White rice in sushi or with That chili vegetables. I've never been a huge fan of rice but if I'm going out to eat sushi is a nice option, they even have brown rice sushi now. I don't eat grains on a regular basis anyway but whole grains are my first choice when I'm cooking.
I had vegetable sushi tonight (avocado, carrots and cucumber wrapped in seaweed and white rice) and my sugar spiked to 164 after 1 hour, 155 after 2 hrs. My fasting blood sugar this morning was 84. I couldn't believe how high it went from such a small amount of white rice.
Stabbing your finger a little more towards the side instead of right in the middle is what I learned years ago with gestational diabetes. Side note: You look like you're bulking up since I started watching you a few months ago 👍😁
Daisy Campion I've been vegan for 3 months and I can relate lol.
5 bananas and no blood sugar spikes seems like a lie. Thank you
Yep, total bs
Hi! You really should change your channel name to "Mic. The dying Vegan" since you are dying because lack of dietary cholestrol and too many carbs.
Just joking
Aksu Saa No just no. I thought you meant he was dying his beard! damn would have been a better joke
Aksu Saa you may be joking but I was actually scolded by a crazy keto guy who basically lived on lard (not kidding), cream and bacon, and who claimed that my total cholesterol of 145 mg/dl = 3.75 mmol/l is dangerously low and I would be hospitalized for it in some countries (...no).
DateYana talking to idiots is bad for your health.
why you joking when it is actually true. 2 days in a row his fasting blood glucose was 110 which is actually considered to be prediabetic.
For a second I was like what? does this person even listen to Mic's videos hahaha. Then I saw the just joking at the end. Haha well played.
Thanks for putting mmol/L on the screen. I’m Canadian so that was super helpful.
Mic, you may be pre-diabetic. Please have some blood testing, including an A1c, C-Peptide and Fasting Insulin level. Your fasting blood sugar and post-prandial levels are too high.
You are right ken
He had very high blood spike aftet eating meal
@The Unknown
You and him both diebetic
Its about time your storage sugar depletes
@The Unknown
Thats not right
He had higher number due to insulin resistance
Thats pre diebetic buddy
Idk about you but him and vegan gains all diebetic and most vegans are addicted to carbs
Aint good
Eat butter where it doesnt spike the insulin and be happy
@The Unknown
68
Maybe he was effected by hypoglycemia
Deal with it
@The Unknown
You can still have 68 sugar blood and be prediebetic
You made me laugh (in sympathy) at 6:12 when you said: "I actually stabbed myself at 9 one of the times, and that is why it hurt a little bit". Your video is well done and interesting to watch. Thank you for posting it.
Hi Mic...Love your channel. In one of your blood sugar tests with a couple bananas, apple, and peach (I believe) your blood sugar spiked to 204, but other foods showed good blood glucose control. If I may suggest, it is most likely one of those foods are a "trigger" for you. The only time my blood sugar rises to over 130 is when I eat sweet potato for breakfast...then it rises to about 155. My last A1c was 5.1 and I've been a vegan (except for the occasional unavoidable cheese) for 50 years and my yearly complete blood work lab tests (required for my job) have always come back "text book perfect" for over 30 years. I will be 70 in a couple months, but am more active than most people half my age (heading out right now for some mountain biking). I suggest you take a look at this study: Personalized Nutrition by Prediction of Glycemic Responses. Cell, 2015
How about Milk and Eggs?? What do eat for your protein and fat?? Kindly share thank you
@@ravireddyism More than adequate protein is obtained from a diet rich in nuts, beans, and whole grains. Olive oil and some coconut supply the essential omega components. Many top athletes are vegan or vegetarian. Check out "Blue Zones", which details how beans are the one food that all the longest lived people seem to have in common. In my opinion, though, whether you are a vegan or not, the most important factor is staying away from processed foods...I really do believe processed foods are behind the epidemic of obesity and health problems that are so prevalent in America. Now 73, my last set of bloo
dwork still came back "textbook perfect". My doctor keeps ordering all these tests every year for my annual physical. She doesn't believe in a vegetarian diet and keeps thinking that there must be something wrong with me. Lol.
You're so bright and it's a joy to watch you. I tried the lance myself a few times but im too muchh of a wuss and didn't like the pain. You've confirmed my suspitions about bananas! Very helpful vid, thanks Mic
Oh my goodness, I get anxiety every time you take your blood. (I'm terrible at getting needles and getting blood drawn, but those finger pokes are the worst!)
i feel weak when I see it
Me too
*YES* ... I hate the prick tests more than real needles (which I'm no fan of either).
try your ear lope. it doesn't hurt at all and bleeds well when you massage it before.
I have found lack of sleep, chronic stress, getting too much blood on the test strip, all to cause higher than average glucose readings.
Oh I just recently found out that I have type 2 diabetes, and now I’m just frustrated with all those pills. But I’m a whole food vegan, so hoping that I can handle this
How long have you been wfpb?
Don't give up. My blood sugar was off the charts crazy high. 500+ I had to defy my doctor to try to get it under control through vegan diet alone when he wanted to send me to the hospital. I'm still diabetic but mostly in the 150-225 range with brief spikes in the 300's that drop after a couple hours but the trend is getting better. On my good days I'm down to 117 or so. I read Dr Jason Fung's books The Obesity Code, and the Diabetes Code and watched his interviews on youtube. I only eat one or two meals a day most days within a four to six hour period which helped a lot. Drinking a tablespoon or two of apple cider vinegar mixed in tomato juice before I eat also seems to make a difference. I did a 12 day water fast and my blood sugar was down to 105 after five days but went back up after I began eating again. I've since done a few 24 to 48 hour fasts which always get my blood sugar down to the 105-117 range. I've probably been diabetic over ten years so it isn't going to be fixed overnight. I think it just takes time and persistence.
I should mention I had the worst imaginable diet.. sugar soda, pizza, fried chicken, eggs and bacon.. and I was a sugar addict.. smarties, twizzlers, skittles, donuts or cookies for breakfast.. fourth meal at Taco Bell.. The 500+ blood sugar test at the Doctors office was a wake-up call. I'll probably owe my life to the Vegan You tubers if I get past this but it seems it's never too late to start living healthy as long as you're still breathing.
Ajay What about fats now...healthy or hooey?
I don't know... I'm pretty new to healthy living heh. I've watched hours of interviews with doctors who advocate high fat low carb.. or high carb low fat and insist the opposing viewpoint is wrong. I tried Paleo once and lost weight. The take I get from the debate is that both approaches work in lowering blood sugar it's when you mix a lot of sugar and a lot of fat that you are in trouble. The advantage seems to be with the vegans though... meat brings with it a lot of other health issues... I didn't even give any thought to possible ethical issues until I started watching the Vegan TH-camrs and I'm still not sure how I feel about it... but you can be high fat low carb on a vegan plant based diet if you want to go that route. I just try to keep all the processed food out of my diet now. I'm not a good cook and I get bored with eating salad so it's hard for me to stick to it but I try. Somewhere along the line somebody said processed oils are bad because they are almost always rancid by the time you consume them. I take that to mean get your oil from eating coconuts, avocados, sunflower seeds, flax seeds, ripe olives etc... I'm pretty sure we need some oil in our diets but I don't think we need processed oil.
I've had type 1 diabetes for 14 years, so I've been through a few meters over the years. The "no coding" thing is something that we had to do in the "olden days". :P Most monitors don't need it anymore.
It basically just means that for every new box of test strip you opened, you got a special strip that you had to use first in the meter before testing your blood. That strip had maybe the code "10" (it was usually a two or three digit number) and when you stuck the strip in the meter, it set the meter to the code 10. This allowed the meter to use all the blood test strips in the package that had the code 10 written on. If you didn't correctly code your meter before using new strips, then you couldn't rely on the accuracy of the blood tests. :)
Just a fyi, when you test your fingers, you need to wash or lick (I know, gross) your fingers before bleeding, because if you've touched anything sweet before, then it will influence the result. Also, only the little, ring and middle finger are recommended to be used. I use my left ring finger the most. It's also easier and causes less pain when you stab yourself on the side of the pad and on right on top of the pad. And you also have to push upwards towards the hole you just poked, in a "milking" motion so you increase the blood pressure at the tip of the finger. :)
Another note I would like to add. Bananas are crazy fast acting carbs - almost as fast as regular candy. It's literally withing 2 to 5 minutes that you can see a difference. I have a CGM (continuous glucose monitor) as well, so I can see what my BG is 24/7 so I see all those weird ups and downs that can happen. I can't eat more than half a banana at a time, because the synthetic insulin I use doesn't act fast enough to catch the spike if I eat more. The "pressure" you were feeling very well may be the blood sugar spike. I can feel "pressure" or tightness in my muscles (especially in my legs) when my blodsugar goes over 10 or 11 mmol/L (180 to 200 mg/dL).
Love your videos there amazing your videos inspire me to go vegan I'm going vegan soon
Jaafar A good on you for making the change! Make sure to reach out to others and groups that may help you through your journey!
thank you for the tips im on lots of vegan groups on facebook
Much Respect 👊
Jaafar A Blessings bro. That's awesome. Add some running and weight lifting to that began diet and you'll totally transform your life. Also meditation and asking your self the deeper questions about spirituality. Also they fortify meat with B12 so you're gonna wanna take that under the tongue everyday or every other to keep that in range. Cheers! :)
Astral Purpose yes!
Please repeat this test with a Continuous Monitoring Device that takes readings every 5 minutes or so.
Thanks for this informative (and painful) video. And BTW, you look great in that lighting ! ;)
This was a great video. I know it doesn’t give any clear answers but it’s sooooo very cool that you did this.
I do love eating lots of fruit for breakfast but I definitely notice that I get hungry much quicker than if I have oats or muesli with things like nuts and Chia seeds!
Late night eating is a habit I should probablyy think about 😅
D A N I
This isnt scientific at all as he said
tests like this should effect how you live your life
Every whole plant food without saturated fat is healthy even for diabetic people
You are probably hungry quick bc fruit has less calories, fiber and more water
Oats are not satiating to me at all. They are too low in calories which is probably the reason why his blood sugar didn't rise much after eating them
Refined wheat raises your blood sugar more than pure sugar does.
I ate an almost 100% fruit diet from June 2017 to October 2017, and felt amazing doing it. I just turned 40, my father's a diabetic, my sister just had gestational diabetes...and my A1C in October was 4.3 (ave BS 76). This December 2017 I added in some starches as optimal fruit options diminished, and when I had my A1C checked in March 2018 it was 4.6 (ave BS 86). I've never done on the spot post prandial checks but I have to say my experience has only been positive eating primarily fruit...no crashes, good energy, high vibe...and still only needing to eat 2, sometimes 3 times a day with 16 to 18 hour fasts. And for what it's worth my triglycerides were 74 at that time. Just thought I'd share my experience. Seems like a shame to vilify fruit after 2 readings, and you're just assuming which one was the "wrong" one. I'm an RN, and after I clean someone's finger with alcohol I wipe it dry before testing since the alcohol sugars can technically effect a reading. Not sure what you cleaned your fingers with, but just a thought on how simple things can make a difference.
So interesting! Helping me realize how things work I appreciate your great videos.
This was so interesting! I knew that diabetics need to check their blood sugar levels, but never thought about checking mine. I wonder what would happen if you ate the bananas with cinnamon? Would the cinnamon keep your glucose levels from spiking? Also, I be interested to see what happens after eating 10 marshmallows? And... no I didn't just eat 10 marshmallows! ...I only had 7.
I think cinnamon only works for lowering blood pressure and not so much for lowering blood sugar.
Cinnamon helps with keeping stable sugars over time vs. actually lowering them.
Hi Mic, a blood glucose meter measures glucose, and not fructose which is the sugar in fruit, but fruit does have carbs. I did 1 week fruit only, and my blood sugar levels were in the 80s and 90s that week and hadn’t been under 103 in 2 decades when I had my routine tests, it was more like 115 - 136 those years. Next time I have a routine lab test scheduled I will eat only fruit for one or two days. I also found eating late at night increases my morning blood sugar. I have also been drinking 8 oz fresh grapefruit juice I juice I. My citrus juicer with 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar the last 8 months, and that is what started me on the fruit journey. I had always believed to much fruit bad for you, but just the opposite. Also make sure to get a good blood glucose monitor. I used the FreeStyle Lite, my first one was 15 -20 or more points off. Just to note I am not diagnosed as diabetic, was just doing routine testing like you.
Yes, Mic, diabetes IS hard!
Thanks for doing this.
Thanks for doing this video! I'm diabetic, since age 16 (now 42) and it was pretty funny to see you fumble with the tools I use everyday. We went vegan almost a year ago and I have been really happy with my previously out of control blood sugar. This was great! Thank you for always being scientific and doing real research about these types of topics.
Very interesting. You should also account for hydration in your results. There is such a thing as relative hyper and hypo blood levels due to hydration levels. (I’m an RN in hot and humid Miami and fluid balance plays a big part in diabetes management here) Also, the reason you can fast and not bottom out is because you have preserved insulin receptors and your body actually knows when to tap into your glycogen stores. Love your videos....Informative and entertaining!
Makes sense my blood sugar has been high even though I'm eating no carbs low carb keto
Had to switch from vegan to keto because as a vegan, my blood sugars regularly and often times went into the 150’s and 160’s. Now doing keto, my blood sugars stay under 110 after meals. Rice, beans and lentils really elevated my blood glucose but chicken and eggs did not.
Per the ADA-Diabetes and obesity is caused by insulin resistance which is the build up of animal fats in cells that are not meant to store it. This causes insulin levels to rise and glucose levels in the blood to rise because it cannot enter into the cells. Same diets for 60 years!. Atkins, south each, zone diet, paleo, ketogenic, carnivore, lion. All have the same effect and increase levels on insulin resistance.
I love stuff like this!
A H me too
If I ate that cereal my glucose would peak to 300.
I tried doing the banana only mono meals, a handful of times past 5 years. And every time I think I should try to revisit it, my body is like 'what the hell are you doing?!' I get nauseated and my energy levels completely tank. It's even worse when it's in liquid form. And trust me I've tried adding blueberries or raw chocolate powder, and it doesn't help with the nausea. So I only eat maybe a couple of bananas a day, sometimes with a nutbutter, and that helps. I also can't eat cooked oats; and overnight oats sometimes push it. Another nausia/drop of energy issue. I have been tested for diabetes more times and I can explain. I am not diabetic. Great experiment.
Variety is important to a healthy diet. Preferably Whole Food Plant Based.
I don't have problems with snacking on whole fruit like apples or bananas. Fiber is what blunts blood sugar spikes, not fat.
I do prefer to mix fruits and starches with other foods.
For healthy fats and starch on a WFPB diet I eat:
>Breakfast- Ground flax and walnuts on my oatmeal
>Snack- Nuts and home made trail mix
>Lunch- Peanut butter or a tempeh (No added fats listed, but significant fat in the Nutrition Facts.) sandwich. Whole wheat pasta and legumes (with nutritional yeast)
>Dinner- Avocado and tahini or sesame seeds on my salad. Rice and beans, of course.
That's funny. I can eat as many as 12 bananas for one meal and it has no negative effect on me at all. If you can't eat that many bananas and feel fine, you might be eating too much fat. I can eat up to 7 pounds of russet potatoes in one meal as well with some greens, and I feel fine.
Thanks for the video and taking one for the team.
This is so awesome thank you :D you should do more tests on yourself! This is fun! a calcium score would be neat to see!
Thank you for your efforts Mike!
Can you also test dates as well?
c l nutrition facts has a video on this. Eat all the dates you want and you will be A OK 👌🏼
I am eating dates while reading this comment.
No whole food will at all be a problem for your blood sugar if you are healthy and it doesnt have denatured or saturated fat
Research is much more a reference point than mikes little experiments here as he said himself
I'm curious to see the way they react since the bananas had the effect they did. I do eat dates every day aswell. He said to post foods to try so that's what I did!
So is dried fruit all right? because i can'y get ahold of dates in any other form but i heard most dried fruits actually spike blood sugar a lot, raisins esp
The GlykoMark test is the best for showing those hidden spikes. It won’t tell you numbers but it shows how your body is responding to glucose levels, and if there are a lot of peaks and valleys that aren’t showing up on finger sticks. The A1C was always the standard but combined with the glykomark you can really understand your control as a diabetic. For example I had an A1c of 5.2 which for a type 1 is rockstar level! But my glykomark showed I was having a lot of spikes. My finger sticks we’re catching the lows after the spike. This helped me refine my dietary choices to optimize my glucose levels. I don’t know how the glykomark would work for a non-diabetic but it might be something to look into. Unless you can borrow someone’s continuous glucose monitor for a week. Then you’d see everything.
Try a 48 hour fast and test it.
Mic, just for grins and giggles today I had a veggie meal, Lima beans, collards, rutabaga and some green beans. After 2 hours my glucose was 180, to many carbs even though it was a veggie meal. I've been more on the keto/carnivore. I started a 48 hr fast a few weeks ago and my glucose at the beginning was 128, I checked it after 24 hrs and it was 110, at the end it was 98. They say the ketone will release glucose on their own. I never got to 90. I can go 24 hrs on a regular basis without eating when I just stick to a high fat low carb diet. O and my blood pressure has dropped considerably since I got off sugar and went to internet fasting went keto. 🙃
Yeah if you have a fasting blood sugar of 128 and it takes 24 hours just to get to 110 then that's a red flag that your insulin resistant which keto has been shown over and over again from my observation to not fix, any fasting (3+ hours after a meal) blood sugar of over 100 is already considered of impaired insulin sensitivity.
@@davfar459 Go watch the youtube channel "Beat Diabetes" which proves that Low carb High Fat diets do work, Dennis Pollock shows his blood glucose throughout his meals.
I would love to see how rolled oats with berries compare to steel cut oats and berries for breakfast
Grace Schonfeld good one! Oat groats too!
Do it!
And Costco has organic cracked Coach's Oats ( which I'm totally hooked on). Very interested to see if cracked, steel cut and rolled have different glycemic properties. Thanks!
Fantastic video Mike!
I would like to see you test after having a smoothie. I eat one everyday for breakfast.
@Molson Muscle exactly until it does not any more because of all sugary stuff. Even non diabetics should think about not spiking the BS if they don't want a chronic disease
Smoothies will cause a massive increase of glucose post prandially
I used to have a smoothie for dinner - 1 banana, a half of a papaya amd a few strawberries and my blood sugar would be like 120 2 hours after the smoothie. That was too high for my paranoid mind so no more smoothies for me.
That salad with the beans and the turmeric dressing looks so good. Very cool video, really interesting concept
I would like to see how your body responds to mock meats.
what is that
@@Monikainlove fake meats,vegan burgers and such.
I’ve been eating a mostly plant based diet for the past 2 weeks now, and the effect on my blood sugar levels has been amazing. I’m a type 1 diabetic, so this has benefited me immensely. My average blood glucose has been 110 mg/dL for the past two weeks (as told by information from my continuous glucose monitor), and those are numbers that diabetics only usually dream of. Despite still eating tons of carbs, my body does not react to the same way. Now my blood sugar “spikes” end up in the 180s, instead of 300+. I’m seeing massive health benefits from switching to a plant based diet, and I finally feel like I’m sticking by my morals as well. Thank you for being such a great part in the vegan community, and for helping to educate everyone who comes in contact with you videos. You’re awesome!
Interesting how well your body reacted to the Ethiopian food. Did you have them change anything when you ordered it, because Ethiopian stews/sauces are typically cooked with clarified butter and oils?
This is so interesting. Thabk you for your amazing content as always my friend! 💖
such a big sacrifice making your self a guinea pig its shocking 😨😨
Blood glucose levels are naturally higher in the morning for everyone, so the same carbs eaten at breakfast vs eaten in the afternoon may affect your blood sugar differently. I use an insulin pump and have a totally different level basal insulin throughout the day, and also my carb to insulin ratio is highest at breakfast and then drops off throughout the day as my sensitivity and activity level increases
I ate dried strawberries and a sweet green juice and my blood sugar was 74
CJA32able how long did you wait before taking the reading?
That's why I eat plenty of fruit to stabilize my blood glucose levels so I won't binge eat from having a sugar crash.
That's probably why I've lost 24 kilograms in the last couple of months, my aim is to drop down from 93 kilos down to 75 as I still have a bit of fat on my hips.
Most of the weight I've lost has been from my butt & thighs,I have lost about an inch of fat from my waist.
You’re killing me with this video haha use the side of the finger tip, not the pad. But love the content of this video.
I had same mitigated results with morning fruit salads breakfasts :
Some days, my blood sugars was super stable and stayed under 100, some other days I had a spikes over 150 ..... All that with the same kind and amount of fruits....
It seems a lot of things can influence the blood sugar response of a meal , including :
- the previous meal
- how well we slept at night
- last time we exerciced
- ....
Anyway , it's nice to experiment by ourself ;)
"A smaller meal like breakfast at maybe 700, 600 calories" as a 5'1 sedentary girl your small breakfast is like my big lunch xD
Yes, you must have missed the high spike with the first set of bananas! They are definitely a higher glycemic count. People with diabetes are advised to eat either no bananas or never more than a half banana.
No they aren't
I have hypoglycemia and the only foods that really make me feel like my blood sugar is in a good range is steel cut oatmeal with blueberries in it. That or a ton of broccoli
You're not supposed to prick the tips of your fingers. You're supposed to prick to the side.
Hey Mic, LearningtobeFearless has recently decided she wants to loose weight. She’s using weight watchers. Weight watchers works on a point system; certain “healthy” foods such as eggs are zero points as a way to encourage users to eat more healthy foods. Things like turkey bacon are also low in points. Can you do a video on how much of a disservice weight watchers is doing?
You should wait at least 90 minutes after eating to capture a blood glucose spike. Thirty minutes is not enough.
I’m really confused. When I was eating meat my fasting was 85 and A1c 5.7. Been Whole food vegan for 3 years and my fasting is 115 and my A1c is 5.1. Shit makes no sense lol
I would sleep at the blood test laboratory if i was you 😶
Well my fasting was always 95 and hac1 was 5.6
When i decided to walk everyday and exercice push ups and get rid of pepsi and junk food .. ironically my fasting went up to 113 and 110 2 hours after eating.. what on earth is that!!!
And hey.. still 110 after 40 mins of walking in summer lol
This was fascinating, thank you!
Could you test Cantaloupe, Honey Dew, Watermelon, plain Mango, Cucumbers?? Like different combinations together... I'm really curious!
P.S love the channel!!!
Fantastic video. Very very helpful. Thank you
Eating only simple sugars like bananas and other fruits gives a tonne of energy fast, but you'll burn that up in no time and end up hungry for more within two hours sometimes even faster, that's exactly my experience too. So if I want to stay raw during the day I eat sprouted buckwheat, quinoa, seeds, beans and lentils to keep satisfied longer, also, beans reduce the sugar spike from simple sugars.
raw beans?
why you think, you "burn(t) that up in no time" ? more likely, you ate yourself hungry. i experience the same (from high carb meals in general, but especially after bananas), and i more and more wonder, whether this actually can be good.
That was so helpful Mic. I've been getting headaches lately and found out my fasting a1c is 104, so that suggests I'm consuming too much sugar. Thank you!
OR try eating the 5 bananas with at least a cup of blueberries
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He probably just didnt whipe the first drop and bc of that the reading was high
Or he had less/more activity
This wasnt scientific
Caretouch comes with a calibrated standard. Insert that first. Every batch of test strips comes with one. If you don’t use the calibrated standard, the meter uses the last known standard as a background.
Love that you were wearing a "Happy Healthy Vegan" tshirt. Awesome cross-promotion :D
Kelly S I would like to see Ryan try this experiment. He makes smoothies with 10 bananas in addition to other fruits.
Thanks for this video Mic, was actually really interesting!
Much love
This was actually one of my favorite videos youve done. I’ve always been really curious about fruitarian blood sugar levels so it’d be nice if you followed up more on that.
110 fasting? No prediabetes?
This is awesome!
Uh, I ate 4 bananas and an hour later my blood sugar level JUMPED to about 250-a 130 point jump from my fasting glucose level! Sheese!!!
constant blood meter is the way to go but they are expensive
Great video, I love it when people actually do real live tests. So does meat actually spike blood sugar more than whole wheat carbs ?
160 is pretty damn high....
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