Svati wrote a great sharepost on an article discussing insulin sensitivity—and I really wanted to write about the topic too because I’ve been learning a lot about this through my own “experiments” lately!
See, here’s the thing: the benefits of taking less insulin only work if your blood sugars are also under control. If your glucose is at 230 and you take half or none of your correction factor (the amount of insulin you need to bring it down to 120), then obviously you are not...
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