Reversing T2 Diabetes

I'm Jackie and you can find out about me from my about me page on another blog.  Since this blog will be almost entirely about me, and my journey to attempt to reverse diabetes, I didn't bother with an "about me" page here. Why does a post about diabetes have a Pacman? The reason is autophagy, a word which means self-eating.  Autophagy is the process by which lysosomes within a cell eat malformed proteins and/or damaged organelles, bre…

It's a tad tricky figuring out an image that actually represents endocrinology. While all doctors and nurses work on a computer in the exam room, this picture could easily apply to an admin assistant also. In case anyone is wondering, Dr. Yan is a board-certified endocrinologist, not an admin assistant! ;) While I've tried to make this blog as chronological as possible, when discussing some things, like reversing adrenal insufficiency and we…

So after I had managed to wean off prednisone , my next thought was I wanted to wean off liothyronine, T3-only meds, which I was taking for what I call thyroid resistance. Basically, the point is this: mostly, the thyroid makes T4, so named because it has 4 iodine molecules attached. T4 has to be converted to T3, which is the active hormone. However, sometimes things go awry and instead T4 is converted to rT3, reverse T3. Reverse T3 fits into the same…

Canadian Thanksgiving occurs on the second Monday of October, rather than the fourth Thursday of November, because harvest happens earlier in Canada than in most of the US. I'm American, but married a Canadian, so have had guests for both holidays. In fact, one year his family came down for both; guess they were extra thankful that year! Last year, his brother's family came down over their long weekend to spend the holiday with us, giving me m…

A Ridiculously Big Salad I invented because I missed a sub I used to get at Wegmans, so looked up the ingredients and bought them at the deli. Originally, I called this my sub salad, but I upgraded the name to antipasto salad. This is freaking heaven in my mouth. Ingredients For four days, this is what I get from the deli: 1/4 pound each of hot ham, capocollo, sopressata, pepperoni 1 pound of liverwurst (not part of the sub, but I rarely get organ …

In November of 2019, I had a bit of a mishap with some chocolate. I'd been eating the "healthy" dark chocolate for years, as it generally has less sugar that the milk kind (though that's not always true) and mindlessly ate some from my freezer. The dark side of chocolate: my bG meter shot up to almost 200! Uh oh. I posted about my experience: November 24, 2019 So posting for accountability... I accidentally broke my shiny, new bG. …