This was posted yesterday to a Facebook group to which I belong:
Gestational Diabetes. Sister in law is 32 weeks pregnant. Doc is telling her she needs 150-250 carbs per day. Yet her glucose is still high pretty much all day and especially in the morning. She is doing finger pricks like 4 times a day and if she doesn't get her levels below 130, consistently, she will have to have other interventions. I know this can be helped with food...
Being
of personal and professional interest to me, I went searching for
resources and got busy with some synthesis. The trouble is, ancestral
health (AH) sciences have not had a chance to penetrate into the corners
of human health conditions yet, meaning the vast majority of relevant
published literature focuses on AH issues in adult men, or CW methods of
addressing obstetric conditions. There's also a long-standing tradition
in medicine to view the adult male as
the default physical model, leaving women - and heaven forbid pregnant women - as de facto
pathology cases. Combining that conceptual substrata with the diabetic
disease state sets off any number of ringing bells and blinking lights
that promptly summon the heavy pharmaceutical artillery.
But
if we took a step back and changed the underlying assumption to one
more in line with AH, and accepted that the female also functions, and
that pregnancy is a normal aspect of female physiology, what would we
find?
