Type II Diabetes in trucking and accidents because of it?

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  1. 2rescuekids

    2rescuekids Light Load Member

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    How many drivers have caused an accident directly related to type II Diabetes, I can't find any info on that seems like none?
     
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  3. Chinatown

    Chinatown Road Train Member

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    I've never heard of any. It's the Type 1 companies worry about.
    10's of thousands of drivers have Type 2.
     
  4. A Bug

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    Type 2 can easily be fixed just by eating real food and cutting out sugar and carbohydrates. The folks that have type 1 I feel real bad for because they cannot do anything but manage it with a lot of work.
     
  5. uncleal13

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    I’ve never been diagnosed with either level of diabetes. But I have blacked out due to low blood sugar. I think they call it insulin resistance.
    But I can always tie it back to days where I don’t have anything to eat, then having something sweet. Then about three hours later, poof.
    Last time it happened was behind the wheel. Estimate by reviewing my dash cam that I was out for about 45 seconds.
    I felt myself going, got the truck down to 35 mph and steered for the shoulder. Fortunately the ditches on the prairies are fairly shallow.
     
  6. Iamoverit

    Iamoverit Road Train Member

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    It's called hyperglycemia or hypoglycemia depending if the blood sugar is high or low respectively.
     
  7. Brandt

    Brandt Road Train Member

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    Type 2 can be reversed that big thing most people don’t talk about even doctors
     
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    Whoa, that's not something I would tell many, passing out behind the wheel. We just had a post on how old before retiring, and your story bolsters the fact. While an insulin shortage can happen at any age, blackouts are more common than we think. I've said time and time again, there are over 330,000 medical emergencies on our roads every year, many, like yours, are never reported. I had a syncope event on my bicycle with no warning recently, and took a header to the ground. It could have been a disaster driving. Jury still out on why it happened, a sudden loss of BP, and my meds are partially to blame, but since that happened, I'm very leery about doing anything, especially driving.
     
  9. A Bug

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    Insulin Resistance is caused over a long period of time where your body is constantly getting way too much sugar too frequently. Every time you eat something your body has to release insulin to force that sugar into your blood cells. If you only eat two to three times a day then you the will be alright. But with the way most people eat five to six times a day with all the snacks and processed sugary foods your cells stop accepting the insulin because they already have too much glucose from the sugar we eat. Now the only other thing your body can do is convert all that extra glucose to fat because too much of it in the blood can be fatal.

    Your body gets used to living like this so whenever you stop eating every couple hours then you go into starvation mode and even though we have a fortune of energy stored away in the fat cells our bodies cannot use them because it only wants sugar and carbohydrates, which is why your energy levels are going up and down all day.

    Now if we can get our bodies adapted to burning fat instead of sugar this will give us a steady and constant source of energy, so you will never feel hunger or lack of energy throughout the day even when you miss a meal. I have gone for 60+ hours of having nothing to eat without feeling any side affects of hunger or fatigue. You can get your body like this simply by limiting sugar and keeping carbohydrates below 50 grams a day.

    Your body gets used to living like this so it needs that constant intake
     
  10. Lennythedriver

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    Type Two diabetes can be completely reversed in most people in 90 days or less, but most people are too lazy and ignorant to do it. Yes, it takes some self discipline, but it can be easily achieved.

    Also, another little known fact, 95% of people with high blood pressure, have inflammation and swelling and scarring of the arteries and veins throughout their body. Caused by elevated homocysteine….Most of the time the heart itself is fine. You can reduce this inflammation and lower your blood pressure into the normal range, simply by taking tmg trimethylglycine, which reduces the excessive homocysteine in your bloodstream…You will also never hear of this cure from your doctor, or any pharmaceutical company for obvious reasons.
     
  11. 2rescuekids

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    Thanks, so you don't think any accidents were caused by type II?
     
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