The greatest newest science to instantly help diabetics is RESISTANT STARCH. You can see the marvelous results of this still this weekend, if you have a blood glucose monitor.
The easiest most concentrated form of resistant starch to eat is unmodified potato starch, found at any health food store, usually made by Bobs Red Mill. Try the experiment yourself: test your BG before and after a carby food, like a baked potato. Try every hour after for three hours. Then, the next day eat 1 tbsp potato starch in water (has no taste, can put it in plain yogurt or something else with sweetener) an hour before eating the same baked potato. Anything you want on the potato, just the same as the previous. Test your BG the same. Prepare to be amazed, as the resistant starch will slow your rise in glucose and bring it down fast and keep it down.
This is because cold resistant starch gets past the small intestine into the large, and is a delightful treat for the gut bacteria therein. When we feed our gut bugs, who have more DNA in our body than we do, our immune system and apparently our whole metabolism is strengthened.
There are other forms of resistant starch, and there is so much more fascinating info on this subject. If you know a diabetic, get them started on this exciting research. No big money, no big Pharma, just some curious thinkers online and now a whole bunch of followers learning together.
And your doc doesn’t have a bleeping CLUE.
http://freetheanimal.com/tag/resistant-starch
Whoops, typo — in previous should be WITHOUT SWEETENER. Just use water for the sake of the experiment. You can use it in anything later.
Thanks for sharing this info about resistant starch.
I also looked it up in Wikipaedia - I know it’s not fully reliable, but they have a lot of very interesting info about the MANY benefits it seems to have for and in addition to blood sugar control from eye health to brain function and so on.
I will look into it more — thanks for the link you gave also.