Questions About Your Type 2 Diagnosis: Meds, the Dawn Effect, and Reversing Insulin Resistance

This episode is a full hour of viewer questions about type 2 diabetes. Dr. Scott Saunders opens by sharing where he is three months into his own low-carb experiment, including the birthday baklava and the first sandwich he had eaten in months, then digs into the questions people ask most about their diagnosis.

He explains the dawn effect and why your morning number can be higher than when you went to bed, why he does not like the drug glimepiride for insulin resistance, the difference between phase one and phase two of the program, what neuropathy in your feet really means, and how to tell whether you can come off your medication. Practical, plainspoken, and grounded in his own experience.

In this episode, Dr. Saunders covers:

• Why your morning blood sugar can be higher than when you went to bed, and what the dawn effect actually is
• The difference between phase one and phase two, and how to add fruit back without spiking
• Why sweeteners, protein powders, and "keto-friendly" bars can quietly stall your progress
• Why glimepiride can make type 2 diabetes harder to reverse
• What neuropathy in your feet signals, and why it matters far more than the discomfort
• How accurate a continuous glucose monitor really is, and how to read it
• Why the fasting morning number is the one to watch, and the 70 to 90 target
• How cinnamon, berberine, and chromium support insulin sensitivity

Timestamps

• 0:58 — Three months in: moving from phase one to phase two
• 1:59 — Adding fruit back in phase two, and keeping servings small
• 3:21 — Sweeteners on phase one, and the "keto-friendly" junk-food trap
• 5:46 — The dawn effect: why morning blood sugar climbs on its own
• 8:07 — Why glimepiride is the wrong drug for insulin resistance
• 9:44 — Reversing type 2 without losing weight: muscle up, fat down
• 11:54 — Low-carb chocolate and the laxative effect
• 14:37 — The watermelon question: counting carbs and the 4-gram serving rule
• 16:48 — Is a fasting sugar near 100 pre-diabetic? Think scale, not yes or no
• 19:09 — How accurate is a continuous glucose monitor?
• 22:37 — A very low A1C, reactive lows, and the glucose tolerance test
• 27:18 — How cinnamon, berberine, and CinnaChroma support insulin sensitivity
• 30:17 — Breakfast ideas beyond eggs
• 33:22 — Neuropathy in the feet, and why it is not a minor problem
• 35:21 — Why "keep it under 180" misses the point: advanced glycation end products
• 42:44 — Chromium, insulin receptors, and diabetes
• 45:43 — The 6 and 10 reset, and when to eat breakfast
• 48:56 — Why the morning fasting number matters most
• 51:32 — Can you stop your meds and reverse type 2 naturally?

Products mentioned in this episode — use code Saunders25 for 25% off:

• CinnaChroma
• Berberine
• Nervala
• Diabetes Solution Kit

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