Blood Sugar Test: Potato Alone vs Potato with Animal Fat
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- Опубліковано 17 січ 2019
- In this video Dennis tests himself twice - once eating a sweet potato by itself and the second time eating a sweet potato drenched with butter and bacon drippings, along with several bacon slices. This was done in response to criticisms by some of the plant-based eaters who declared that his earlier potato test was illegitimate because he put butter on his potato. In their minds the butter magnified the blood sugar spike. But is this true? Does not fat have a tendency to blunt blood sugar spikes? Dennis tests these theories in this comparison test using two sweet potatoes.
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Wonderful ministry brother! It is alarming how sick many in our churches are because of ignorant food choices. You are a light in the darkness. God bless.
I went full Keto last April, I lost 35lbs the first 6 weeks, and 40lbs overall. I haven't felt this good in years, both physically and mentally, since I cut out all carbs. Both of my parents are insulin dependent, and I knew I was heading that way too until I cut out the carbs. It's not easy, I still crave all the things I used to eat, but I refuse to let my taste buds ruin my health.
Good for you, Steve!
You are great. Just the same with. Now I put off rice in my meal and replace it with cauliflower rice. Just start today.
Be healthy n happy.
Just the same with me.
I went total carb I just ate potatoes for three months and lost close to 40 pounds my triglycerides went from insanely high down to normal my cholesterol dropped AC1 went back down to normal. Yeah and and my fasting blood sugar went back to normal.
@beatdiabetes3 can you use olive oil for vegans sake 😂
In my opinion you don’t have to justify or explain what you’re doing. It is your channel. ❤️
1:30 The shade is real lol. After eating a plain sweet potato with just water, I really commend you for doing these tests. I would lose my mind doing this, lol! Thank you.
I love your videos because you have opened my eyes to understand how blood sugar is affected and how quickly the glucose goes up.
Love you and your wife’s experiments!! Great channel, very helpful!! Thank you!! 🕊 Great work so positive!
Thanks, Dennis!..You make the very best informative videos!...As the saying goes in engineering, "One test is worth a million opinions!" Thanks for all your 'pain' doing these valuable tests.!!
Appreciative people like you make it all worthwhile!
I love that you mentioned Indian people on veggy diets are getting diabetes.
There is a dieabetic Indian guy at my gym, eats only veggy. Overweight, no muscle at all. Works out on a treadmill for a couple hours each day to "control his blood sugar". Hasn't lost a pound of weight after a couple years of doing this.
One day I felt sorry for him and tried to tell him about LCHF and Dr. Jason Fung et al. He listened and then discussed it with his doctor who told him LCHF would kill him ! So he continues taking his insulin and slaving away at the treadmill.
It's not the veggies but the carbs and a veggie diet doesn't make for lack of muscle. A sedentary lifestyle and protein poor diet does. Remember that the elephant is a vegetarian and can flatten a truck in a second. In India, like the rest of the world, we have copied (or rather our food businesses have copied) the highly advanced American medical "expert advice" and modern food companies, flooding the market with cornflakes, hamburgers, pizza and other junk. A generation ago there was almost no diabetes in India and now we have one of the largest diabetic populations in the world. Again due to modern marketing, "healthy" oils like corn oil, canola oil etc which have replaced oils like ghee have also contributed. Thankfully, like in the US, Indians are catching onto the lies.
@keith cunningham Incorrect. There are millions more people both in India and the US that are chomping down on sugar and mickey dees that are NOT diabetic. It's purely a commercially created problem worldwide led by food companies+medical "science" in America. Like I said, that's changing at least in India where ghee was the normal cooking oil. It's now the go to oil for people who have called bs on the food+medical industries.
keith cunningham No it is because of modern processed foods with added chemicals, lots of refined sugar and refined seed oils in the context of a diet higher in plant matter and lower in animal foods.
Earlier diabetes was low but high plant eaters like those in India were plagued with physical weakness and nutritional deficiencies to a far greater degree. Indians have been quite unhealthy compared to many other indigenous groups for centuries due to vegetarian tendencies.
Chilarai The elephant runs on short chain saturated fats obtained from fiber with the help of microbes. Humans cannot do that to that extent. We need energy that is easier to obtain from foods without microbial help, similar to carnivores. We however do have the ability to utilize starch and a bit of sugar from easy to digest plant matter. We are not herbivores like elephants but carnivorous omnivores.
@@roobaba5415 Ergo, a person who is vegetarian (and consumes dairy) need not by definition be a weakling as this prick is saying. He ignores that many top fighters/boxers/weightlifters even at the olympics level are vegan.
I’m a 69 year old man and I was diagnosed with diabetes about two years ago caused by my extreme exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam in 1971 and ‘72. I’ve always been active and never overweight. I worked out and ate well (few sweets, no colas and was never heavy a heavy alcohol drinker and didn’t smoke).
I had read, after my diabetes diagnosis that sweet potatoes, while they are high in carbs, they are also high in so many other minerals that are good for you it kind of equaled out. In September of last year I was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. I had an operation to remove the tumor and have just finished six months of chemo. I have lost down to 130 pounds from 185 last year and all my doctors have told me to get back on carbs to get my weight back up. I still eat sweet potatoes occasionally I have gone back to a more keto diet. I really like sweet potatoes.
Hey, I was just thinking about this! So glad you ran the test!! Awesome!
Thanks for being the test subject!! You are so knowledgeable, it is a shame most doctors do not know what you have learned with research and experience.
Your videos are inspiring and help me stay on my diabetic diet! THANKS!
Thank you for all your videos! Learn so much from you.
you make very good sense and present the vital information so well! thank you!
Thank you for your video's. I am a diabetic type 2 and trying to reduce my medication. Your tests really help with making the right choices.
Here in the UK we are told sweet potatoes are good for people with diabetes but its clear in your test they are not good. I need to stop eating these so thank you Dennis for sharing your video.👍👍👍
Mick same here
More like not as bad. Would you rather get hit by a person riding a bicycle at top speed or a person driving a car at top speed? Both will do considerable amounts of damage and both scenarios are best avoided, but the bicycle will hurt less thus it's the "better" choice. It's still an even better choice to avoid either if you're diabetic.
yes. I am surprised. So what are the benefits of Sweet potatoes?
@@medpub Fiber, vitamins, minerals, no saturated fat or cholesterol.
@@medpub "So what are the benefits of Sweet potatoes?" They are extremely high in beta carotenoids. The stuff people pay insane amounts to have a tiny amount in their "grass fed" meat.
Overall this "experiment" was just to mislead people, why say its animal fat.. when you do not compare it to non animal fats? Yeah, to mislead people to think that animal fat is somehow good. You can have the same effect just by eating protein or fat with the potatoes. Plant protein and non saturated fat, so you dont die from a heart attack in few years.
I would have liked to have seen a third test----with all the added elements of the second but with no sweet potato.
Thanks for your informative and interesting video. I have subscribed.
Very interesting testing and the results were quite surprising to listen to, as the information garnered helps to inform and learn from! Thanks!
I like the way you do your analysis. Completely rational. 😀😀
My dietricton said sweet potatoes and whole grain bread are okay for diabetics. Thank god for you and my tester of cause ha found that it made to big of a spike. Now she is an ex dietriction . I now check foods myself. Made big difference. What i dont like is the fact that people are trusting people like that and could be puting themselves at risk. Test and be your own dietriction.
I am using my meter more which I hope will help me lower my blood sugar! Thanks for the advice, David!
My first dietician said "go ahead, eat that bagel, just don't put jelly or peanut butter on it" OY!
Super interesting but makes sense. The sugar/carbs still gets into your system eventually, it just takes longer. But better to slow the spikes / danger zone.
😂 this was your most entertaining video that I've seen 😂 And very informative. Thanks 🙂
I got my did my A1C yesterday after having a 10.8, 3 months ago. I went from a vegetarian to a low carb, carnivore. My results yesterday were 5.2.
I followed your videos on how to test the food I should eat. You of course are right on. The numbers don't lie.
Wow, that is awesome! You have made incredible progress! Congrats!
I live in trinidad and tobago going to my doctor to speak about trying your diet because id was put on insulin now
How's it going 4 years later?
I didn't believe it until I tried it, but drinking some apple cider vinegar in water after eating a high-carb meal really lowered my postprandial blood sugar spike quickly. It was amazing. I would like to see you make a video recording your blood sugar results after intake of ACV. I would also like to see your blood sugar results after taking a walk after a meal.
A top informative video again. You are DOING good. Know that, and take care of yourself.
Thanks for all your work, Dennis. I did a bit more analysis of your data... the average BG for the bare potato was 161 for the two hours, while the average BG for the tasty potato was 158.25. So while the spike was different the effect on A1C was close to identical. It does illustrate, however, the problem with the usual post-meal monitoring regime. I really want to get one of the new patch systems which give a minute-by-minute record, rather than the few points that I get with finger pokes. If they only weren't so expensive. I do have to tell you, though, that your work helps me a lot.
Thanks for doing the experiment and share it
Butter n bacon reduced the spike *but* the 2 hr reading shows that all the sugar still got in, only slower
13Gladius 2 Less of a spike..
Of course it did. The point is fat flatten the curve, saves grandma
Lower spike, slower drop. Definitely is better than a higher spike followed by a lower drop
I always heard that you should not eat fat with high glycemic carbohydrates if you can avoid it. The high insulin spike will push the fat right into the liver and around the belly and into the rest of the body once the liver glycogen is maxed out.
Thankyou Dennis!
I have wondered if fat/protein did slow down carbs.
Every thing tastes better with bacon! Lol! Keep up the great videos! I recommend your channel a lot. It has changed my life and others for the good!
Always excellent videos and info, Mr. Pollock. I suggest just one more test - Grated and Drained (pressed of the starch) potatoes, fried in some animal fat.. I would be surprised by a rise over 145..
Your videos are the best BECAUSE you test your blood several times after all meals. That speaks volumes.
Another great test!! Thanks for being a Guinea pig again, so we don't have to.
FATs are your friend, vegan or not. It's problem when you eat 4 stripes of bacon with a stack of pancakes/syrup and a large slab of hash brown/margarine, then wash it down with 20oz of OJ.
Only good thing in that is bacon the other things will make you fat.
@coconut Joe, diabetics have no business drinking orange juice or even eating fruit to begin with. Common sense. If you have diabetes why in world would you eat fruit and make your problem worse? The Standard American Diet has been killing people for years. People trust their drs and they do whatever the holy guru says. People need to do their own research and learn the truth.
@@Volaris27 I agree 100% Marie V. I don't drink juice.
Thanks for everything that you are doing it is very help and informative for a lot of ppl who are Metabolitive challenged.
Understanding food combining, these were the results I expected. Thanks for confirming my studies.
We don't know the impact of all of this on insulin. I've read fats or protein combined with starch carbs is Terrible
Now try whey protein 30 minutes before potato. You will be mesmerized. Your videos are the best.
can you explain to us what will happen if he does have whey protein before the potato.
@@bellapool his glycemia will not increase
@@Dr_Dieta thank you for your response I will have to try it.
but lean protein+carbs huge insulin spike
@@Dr_Dieta The reason why whey keeps blood sugar down in this scenario might be a very dangerous and unhealthy one: Whey is known to spike insulin a lot. High insulin itself is harmful to many of your organs but especially to your pancreas. So having whey can make things worse in the long run.
Sugabetes!!!
Love your experiments! Keep it up.
Thank you for this experiment. God bless!
Thank you. I really enjoy your videos.
with the second experiment , the fact that you had protein with it (bacon) is the reason , it didnt go down quickly , actually protein makes sugar stay a little longer in your blood :)
A question to consider is, is a peak of 187 really a significant difference compared to 201? Also, is it better for our bodies to have a spike to 201 then quick drop back to normal compared to 187 but staying above normal for a longer time?
there are thresholds, yes there is a big difference in the amount of insulin needed as well as the metabolic changes
good video - keep doing these blood sugar tests please!!!
Át all costs please continue to post these videos. You are saving the lives of millions of people in ways that doctors are not.
It’s a fact that glycemic control becomes considerably worse after following keto/low carb diets once challenged with a high glucose meal. You would have to check this after eating decent amounts of carbs for a few weeks to see how your body in it’s normal state handles high carb foods, otherwise it hasn’t shifted from burning its back up fuel (ketones) to its preference (glucose).
This makes no sense for a diabetic.
OMG...did I laugh when you talked about "The Vegans" and their thoughts. Good for you!!!! You called them out.
Another great self test, as was the white bread whole bread myth buster. I love what you’re doing because you’re a case study of One, who is willing to experiment and demonstrate and learn exactly how foods effect your blood sugar. No smoke and mirrors, no hidden agendas, just let’s try it out and see. I’ve done similar tests and I’m inspired by you to continue. My goal is to eliminate my diabetic condition, as I am now calling it, with diet. I am a work in progress but thus far I’ve reduced my A1c from 6.4 to 5.9 in one month ( tested at home using A1cNow). I plan to do the home A1cNow every month until my next lab work. I also do spot checks before and after meals. I plan to have a slice of cake to celebrate my wife’s birthday and I will see what kind of spike I get. I will also see how fast Keto can get me back on track. In fairness my doctor has always advised me to watch my diet with my medications but he never told me I could eliminate diabetes with diet and without any medications as I am now attempting to do. It’s my sense of self determination and self responsibility that is making all the difference. Changing the assumption that my body was defective to the knowledge that it is not my body but strictly my behavior.
You are doing great!
LOL this video is one of my favorites lol love you silliness
Time to test apple cider vinegar and lemon with water (maybe a little cinnamon too...not bad with a little stevia). Lots of people are talking about using the drink before meals to cut the sugar spike in half. Does it effect ketosis??? I do know a man who lost a ton of weight using the drink.
Would love to see you test it. 1 tablespoons of ACV and 1 of lemon juice...8 ounces of water. A little cinnamon. I've been using it the last couple days and it feels like it's raising my glucous. I get that fog in the head. You could drink it before a burger.....use the specs from your burger video to compare the glucose spike.
Animal fat slow and reduce the peak of blood sugar level , but the real hero to stop the extremely peak and keep it in normal level is fiber from greens and none starchy vegetables. I tried it for me in many different high carbs food, and some friends and worked perfectly.
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Thanks for your today video
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I think you are wrong. I don't think fiber and non starchy veggies help much at all. I think this is a myth and I hope he tests it.
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Usually eating rice will spike blood sugar level extremely high, but the same amount of rice spiking to 250 if you eat it after eating the green leaves and non starchy vegetables 5 cups minimum it will never get more than 180 or less.
You can try it for sure as our friend teaches us. Plus there is a tricky method called buffering high glycemic index carbs with low carbs glycemic index, also will help you to limit the spike of blood glucose level to a lower values.
In the end, you should decide and select the right method and lifestyle to control and keep your blood glucose level within the limits based on your body behavior. And only yourself can know that
Wish all of you a good and healthy life
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Agnar150 Agnar
Again, I specified fiber from green leaves and non starchy vegetables.
Not fiber from grains or beans or sugary vegetables or fruits or even rice.
And if you google how to cure leaky gut, it will show you directly stop sugar and grains, rice, non healthy oils and fat, fruits and starchy vegetables.
And increase your intake of green leaves and non starchy vegetables and bone broth soup and healthy fats, to cure your leaky gut in natural way without medication or supplements.
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@@mzmz9798 No argument from me. Very nicely put. :-)
@@SomeTechGuy666 I don't know. I asked him once to test resistant carbs. I'd like to see his thoughts on that. Also, I bought some supposedly low carb bread, but in reality, it had just as many carbs, but they added a lot of fiber which they claimed reduced the net carbs. I imagine a slice of this sometimes is OK but really, the bread has to go for me. I'm not convinced about the fiber/carb thing.
I enjoy always watching the videos special your humor. Keep on doing informative videos and god bless you 🙏
I love your show.it has taught me a lot about food . Thank you
If you wanted a truly good experiment, then you should have only modified one variable at a time. Aka, don’t add extra protein in an experiment about fat. That being said, I’m glad you did this. Thanks.
Exactly! It was dumb to add the bacon
It was dumb to add the bacon fat. Who eats a meal with bacon fat poured all over it?
Yes. Bad science. i'd like to know this guy's cardiovascular health.
He was making a point with this experiment, and went above and beyond to prove the point.
grawss usually going above and beyond is a good thing, but in this case it actually detracts from the experiment. This is because protein stimulates insulin release. Extra insulin would be expected to have a blood sugar lowering effect. He should have stuck with just fat, and it would have made the point better.
Dennis, I was vegan for a couple of years and became diabetic with eating all the potatoes and rice. If vegans see this (their shi*will hit the wall and contest), they'll say I did something wrong and so on (I did not eat any vegan junk food too). The high carb vegan diet raised my blood sugar to dangerous levels. Now, I'm on my way to good health. I eat low carb now and I gave up potatoes, legumes and rice. I also limit my banana intake and other high glycemic fruits. Those foods are not for me. They can say whatever they want. Ik what my body needs. These "vegans" claim to be full of harmony and peace but yet are so mean and rude. What an example they portray. I'm sorry you received those comments. I appreciate what you teach. I have learned alot from you. Also, my blood sugar levels are back to normal. I truly appreciate these videos you upload. Ignore the hate. Love ya Dennis and wife. God bless.
@DCDno, I also legumes, beans , potatoes and rice. I just didnt say but yes beans raised my sugar levels too. I eat beans in small amounts now.
I assume there are a lot of vegans that are very nice and respectful people, but human nature gets in the way for many of them. Their food lifestyle is the the god that they worship and if you challenge that "god" you might very well get a tongue lashing from some of them. What they don't realize is that if they would shut their mouths for a change, be more respectful and/or simply talk about their own testimony about their own experiences they would get a hell of a lot more respect from people. I didn't go vegan because they lay a heavy burden of disrespect and strict/complex diet plans on people that people cannot abide by. I certainly felt that I could not take that. Right now I am on a modified keto plan with intermittent fasting, green veggies, no rice, no potatoes, no pasta, no bread and no sugar. I have lost 15 to 20 pounds in about a month and a half. I have kept my blood sugar and blood pressure down and gotten off Metformin, Glipizide, Lisinopril and Crestor. Part of my goal is to shock my doctor into thinking about all of this the next time I get a blood test which will be about mid February/March time frame.
@DCD Read The Great Colesteral Myth. Statins may help you prefent a heart attack or stroke, if you are a man between 50 snd 60. However, they use what I call pharma math. Basically if 2 out of a 100 people die of a certain complication without a medication over a 5 year period, and 1 out of a 100 die with the medication, that is a 100 percent improvement. However, when it comes to risks that can lead to death from other things, they resort to real math.
@@eljefe2243 keep up the great work!! You got this!! My blood sugar has been in a healthy range too. Thanks for commenting. Appreciate it.
My blood sugar has not been above 140 (that is a spike for me at this point) for the past 3 weeks I have not taken any diabetes meds. I have been checking my BG religiously and don't see it go above that at all. It looks like I am averaging about 115 to 120, a little higher than I would like but running at about 5.8 a1c equivalent, I assume (I will also say I could be wrong). I could be higher overall so lets just say 6.5. That would be a BG of 140 which is not good, but again I only see 140 as a spike for me in the last 3 weeks so I am not sure why getting off the Metformin is a bad thing especially since it tears up my digestive system really bad. Crestor I will admit is the mystery at this point. It could very well turn out bad for me, but I think I would rather die of a heart attack than one toe at a time or crippled because of the joint pain it was giving me--fun stuff these meds are. Maybe they keep you alive just enough to be miserable. That's what it feels like to me. Broke and miserable.
You are a fountain of knowledge Sir!!! Take care of yourself. Love from India
Thanks - I appreciate all my Indian friends!
I appreciate your work .
Great test! Vegan=old Indian word for poor hunter
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Could you find time to test the effect of a reheated potato on blood sugar? I heard that cooling a cooked potato and reheating it later will minimize any blood sugar effect that happens.
What you'll find is that you'll peak higher. The reason why is the more or longer you bake a potato, the more you break down the starches into simple sugars. Complex starches are slower, but cook them too long and you've broken down the complex starches to simple sugars.
A better test: eat a freshly cooked hot potato vs a refrigerated cooked potato. Then you'll see the difference.
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That does not match test results.
@@valarieknight7990 good point
@@lightdark00 so true 👍🏿 I've seen a different in my blood sugar when I refrigerated my sweet potatoes and ate in with veggies and quiona..it didn't spike thst high at all.
I started of at 90 and after eating my dinner and checked in 2 hrs time it was 112 .
I think the slower drop was was just from the extra calories from fat and protein. All of which are no carbs
Wonderful video. As usual!
And yet they always try to make their food look and taste like meat.
I sure do hate that sweet potatoes raise our BS..I have always loved them :-(
I know - there is a price to pay. But the alternative is far worse.
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Faye Adamson Half a small sweet potato eaten with skin and butter will cause only a little increase.
Unfortunately, there is no cure for diabeties. Low carb diet seems to be standard control.
That sweet potato looks delicious.
What fascinating information.
Thank you.
Very interested, Dennis. Thank you...
I wish you took your blood/sugar levels before eating to get a better idea.
he always do, however he explained that he forgot doing that for this video. He guesstimated that it was around 95 before the test.
I had one sweet potato last week. that I fry in my air fryer with on butter on oil and my blood sugar went to 277 one hour later.
Wow! Thank God for our meters that show us the truth.
Yikes!
Very good job! Thank You Sir!
This was a great video! I had heard a long time ago that fat with carbs would reduce the impact on the blood sugar, but to what extent??? Thanks to your video, I will pass on the potatoes (or just pass them to someone else 😉), mostly all carbs for the matter. I appreciate all of your videos! You have a wonderful low key sense of humor!😅
Eat the peel man!! 😁🙏
If I could give you two thumbs up...I would🙂
Absolutely agree...have had the same experience my self with sweet potato...while sweet potato may have a lot of healthy nutrients...they are a no no for type 2 Diabetics...if you want to keep your blood sugar down...I got your " 60 Ways to Lower Your Blood Sugar" book very helpful ...Thank You
That is so interesting...
So basically, that fall in blood sugar is the "crash" we experience after eating carbs.
God bless you and the good the work that you do
Fantastic test ! Excellent result.
But I'd like you to repeat it, this time equalizing the calories between the two tests. The second meal had twice as many calories. What would the blood sugar spike be like for the same calory intake? Halve the potato in the second meal and repeat it, please ?
There is a limit to how often I will allow my blood sugar to take off that way. For now, I am done for a while. But I did do one more potato test that will be posted next week, in connection with the idea of resistant starch.
@@beatdiabetes3 I understand and really appreciate your work. You wouldn't have to repeat the whole potato part of the experiment because you've already done it. You would just have to do the half potato with butter + bacon. Much easier on your system. I'm guessing you'd see a peak of less than 150 because I'm guessing the butter and bacon contributed next to no blood sugar rise.
@@beatdiabetes3 Thank goodness ! Let that person do his own test...you've gone above and beyond the call of duty!!!
@@beatdiabetes3 Oh, that's interesting. I'll have to see that. Thanks
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I love these video's.. they are SO informative 👍
So glad!
Dennis, that was so informative! Thank you! Stay well 🙏. Oh as a thought, what about oatmeal made with milk, with butter and cinnamon v just plan oatmeal made with water?
Here's a chicken or egg question.
Are vegans neurotic because they're on vegan diet, or are they vegans because they're neurotic?
Ba-dum-ching!!! Thank you. I'll be here all night.
Could be a feedback loop too.
You need saturated fat for proper brain function. The nutrient deficiencies make them insane.
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A vegan chicken and egg question?
Isn't that an oxymoron?
Im not neurotic... I actually only know laid back stoner vegans. Havent met any others yet but im sure there is one somewhere.
The egg came first unless you're a creationist quack.
Hi Dennis. I like your video but I think the protein you ate, namely the bacon, may have skewed the results. Protein is not blood sugar neutral and this is probably why your blood sugar wound up higher after two hours eating the bacon. It would have been interesting to see how it turned out with just the butter added to the sweet potato.
You may be right. On reflection I should have left off the bacon. But I'm not about to repeat the test (any time soon).
@@beatdiabetes3 I don't blame you for that. I think I will try it myself, though and let you know the results. I will eat only 1/2 of the sweet potato at a time, without butter and then with butter and we'll see what happens. I will let you know the results if you're interested.
@@rickyb8636 That would be great, Ricky. Let me know.
But the bottomline remains..carbs spike. Whatever way we argue
Made me chuckle, Thanks
Love your videos. Watch for your cholesterol levels as high cholesterol levels can be very dangerous to the heart and other organs. This advise is coming from a fellow carnivore. :) Thank you!
I’m sorry that you had a bad experience with vegans in your comment section. I’m a vegan diabetic myself, but those people don’t speak for me. I have a tremendous amount of respect for you despite our different approaches. We have a lot in common apart from our diets. This is what I can tell you from my experience eating a plant based diet. The key to seeing impressive results is that you have to eat very low fat for several days before you start to see results. A food tracker like cronometer works great for this. What you want to do is eat less than 30 grams of fat a day, every day for let’s say a week. During this time the lipids built up in your liver and muscle cells will start to drain out, and then insulin will have an easier time delivering glucose into your cells, and your spikes will start to drop dramatically. Before that happens, you will spike. It’s about setting up your body to process carbohydrates efficiently. As someone who has tried both a low carb diet and a high carb whole food plant based diet, I can assure you, the plant based approach works quite well, but it’s not something that can be accurately documented in a two day back to back test. Anyway, dietary lifestyles are a controversial subject where emotions can get heated, right up there with politics and religion these days, so the last thing I’m trying to do is get into an argument or tell anyone else that my way is better than theirs, that’s pointless. Just thought I’d share a little perspective from my angle and experience. Take care!
I appreciate your courteous manner of expressing your thoughts. I have read and seen enough testimonies of people that were helped through a plant-based diet to know that there must be something to it - although I do not see this as ideal. But if it has helped you to get your blood sugar levels in line, I thank God for it. In my video which features Dr. Furhman's approach vs Dr. Bernstein's I try to reconcile the two views (at least a little bit). See: ua-cam.com/video/HNIc12cBUN8/v-deo.html
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Have you seen feldman protocol from cholesterolcode.com? He tested himself eating 5000 calories mostly fat for 3 days and his lipid result became "healthy". I tried it myself when my doctor told me my LDL is too high. The result was very excellent. It is a good cheat if you want your doctor off your back. Just make sure you fast at least 14hours before the test, not just 12.
If the cells accept more sugar after a low fat diet, that still means that you have too much sugar that needs to be stored. Wouldn't the cells be better off not having to store this sugar? I see a lot of reason in the argument that our DNA was never adapted to eating the foods that became available much later with developed society.
The job of insulin is to get the sugar out off the blood.
DannyB1954 The sugar isn’t circulating in our blood stream at that point. Insulin’s job is to transport glucose into our cells where it can be burned or stored for energy. I don’t advocate eating anything other than plant based whole foods. That doesn’t just mean no animal products, it also means no oil, no processed grains, no sugar, no cereal... none of that. Fruits and vegetables. That’s my approach.
@@TheDjlivingproof for the sugar to get to the cells, it would have to be in the blood. For me fruits spike my blood sugar. Before refrigerated shipping, people only ate them in season which fattened them up for the winter. All stores now have them year round. The job of insulin is to get the sugar out of the blood.
Your experiment seemed to demonstrate that eating potato only gives a higher spike initially, but lowers it back to normal at 2 hours.
After eating the fatty potato, the blood sugar was still over 130 at 2 hrs! The experiment actually convinced me that it’s not dangerous to eat a plain potato....
It's not. Just don't add all the toppings like Butter and oils and only add some salt and maybe other herbs/spices like pepper.
Great information. Thank you.
Great video; thank you! I pretty much always eat a low carb keto diet rich in fermented foods & beverages and sufficient animal proteins & fats. And while I don't forgo eating potatoes, rice, pasta or noodles, any of these foods that I do eat undergo a long fermentation process to ferment out all sugars & starches & lectins before I consume them. Recently, however, I was compelled to test the cooled cooked potato diet for three days and while I'm sure my blood sugar levels were unaffected, in fact they were quite stable, by day 2 my joints ached, I was bloated all the time, the pressure on my triple prolapse was excruciatingly painful, I woke in the middle of the night 1-3 times to urinate, I experienced sinus mucus & phlegm as well as a chronic headache, and I GAINED 4 pounds - all due to indigestible lectins! So while cooled boiled potatoes may be good for not affecting sugar levels, like you I will never eat another potato again unless it's gone through a very long fermentation process. It is so NOT worth it!!
OMG, the bacon and butter make that sweet potato look so delicious!!
It was!
Add some cinnamon and it will blunt it even more.
Very helpful Dennis...Thanks
Continue to enjoy your tests. I did a search of your channel, and couldn't find anything mentioning the Kraft Insulin Assay test. Have you ever considered doing that test, which would match up your insulin response with your glucose response? It may strengthen your point if you had a delayed, spiked, or sustained insulin response (In other words, an inordinate amount of insulin was required to bring glucose down, it either spiked early or late, and potentially stayed elevated well into the 2-4 hour period?).
Interesting - I have not heard of that. I need to look into it.
The reason your sugar levels didn't drop as quick as the potato alone is because of the added protein not the fat.
Had you just used butter on top of the potato the 2nd test your blood sugar levels would have dropped similar to the 1st test without the high spike.
Yeah. Wtf , why he do that!
Actually his blood sugar would have been lower without the protein
Real scientist experiment on themselves :-)
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Thanks, Denise! You're probably right about the shorts, but it's about all I can do to put out two videos per week with this channel and another two with our Bible channel. Maybe one of these days I'll have an assistant who can help me in things like that.
i'm really beginning to like this channel
It's those spikes of up and down that make people feel fatigued and crave more sugar. So a good way to avoid those cravings is to actually have fat or protein in the meal. I wish we could be vegitarians, but it looks like it is unhealthy for us at the moment. I look forward to the time when we can make healthy plant based foods and proteins and not have to kill animals. Thank you for your videos. They have helped me.
If you had eaten the skin, you would have gotten better results. The fiber would have slowed down the spike.
The skin would have tasted great had you backed it in the oven instead of the microwave.
Not much diff.avoid altogether
An honest test and results - thank you
Thank you for doing this test. Carbs are truly bad for people's health especially diabetics with insulin resistance.
This guy has heavy insulin resistance.
The voice of the soy boys has arrived
Which he and everyone watching this video already knows. That is the focus of his channel. You do not get diagnosed with Diabetes without having heavy insulin resistance. What is your point?
Quite misleading. Why animal fat? You know it does not matter what fat it is.
Totally different caloric content also. This is why we do peer reviewed science, and not youtube misleading.
"Why animal fat?" -- Because that's what vegans bitch about, did you blank out during the beginning of the video? He was testing the claim that eating animal products, especially the fats as the vegans who harassed him claimed, are the cause of diabetes and blood sugar spikes and everything wrong in this world.
@@CyberToyger That makes zero sense, he was testing blood sugar... how does that somehow relate to saturated fat causing diabetes type 2? Its not like saturated fat causes diabetes trough blood sugar spikes.
So yeah, purposefully misleading morons. And seems you took the bait without thinking it at all.
@@cupcakechronicles4551 Maybe you should show some examples of this, and not just make claims like this?
I enjoy your easy way of explaining things and your experiments! I am an RN and share your videos often to friends! I cringe for your poor body though...😞
Excellent information