Tue, Mar-18-03, 05:39
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Posts: 7
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Plan: zone
Stats: 140/140/125
BF:
Progress: 0%
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Chloe, I came to this forum to answer some things about lasers but I really DO have a suggestion for you about cravings and binging. My Type 1 daughter has battled eating disorders for most of her teenage years and finally overcame them. Eating disorders are extremely common in Type 1 diabetes. I am not sure exactly why but it has something to do with leptin. She went from kind of anorexia to binging. Meanwhile, her sister who is just carbohydrate sensitive has more garden variety cravings for carbs.
I found out from an MD in Texas about inositol. When I looked up inositol on PubMed I found out that it is better than SSRIs for obsessive compulsive disorder and panic, and also very effective in eating disorders. Well, BOTH my kids love the inositol from GNC. I can't tell you how many thousands of dollars we spent on things like counseling that did no good whatsoever. The MD that I spoke to uses GNC inositol on every diabetes patient, every PCS patient, and every fibromyalgia patient. The dosage needed could be high. I am with kjturner here, and use applied kinesiology (muscle testing) to check dosages of supplements. But the MD evidently doesn't know how to do that and just keeps increasing it until there are negative symptoms like headache or stomach upset and then backs off. My daughters each take about five or six per day of the 500 mg tablets. Don't buy the powder because it is much more expensive, at least from GNC. The MD that I spoke with (and he is a research MD from a major university) actually has found that he can substitute inositol for Metformin sometimes in things like PCOS. (Now don't try anything like decreasing meds without talking to your doctor.) I realize now, particularly after reading the translated Russian research (see the laser thread) that in addition to Type 1 that my daughter was insulin resistant. She has reduced her insulin units from about 36 per day to about 20 per day using inositol-- both from the insulin sensitizing qualities of inositol, and the fact that she doesn't get carb cravings anymore. I wish everyone knew about the stuff. Obviously, this doesn't work for everyone. That would be too easy.
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