Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
There may be a short window right after a blood sugar diagnosis when your body is unusually willing to change direction — and a new trial suggests what you eat inside that window matters far more than the same effort made later. Researchers tracked what happened in the gut, and the people whose bacteria shifted the most saw the biggest changes in their numbers. But there is a catch that flips the usual advice on its head: piling on fiber too early can make everything worse.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:39 34 newly diagnosed diabetics, none on medication yet
1:11 A1C dropped 9.45% versus 1.44% on conventional care
1:33 the crossover group that never fully caught up
2:05 the gut bacteria that shifted the most
3:16 why more fiber is not automatically better
4:38 the seed oils that make fiber intolerable
5:15 Dr. Mercola's own Homa IR score is 0.2
Explore the staged fiber sequence and the full HOMA-IR formula in this article:
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There may be a short window right after a blood sugar diagnosis when your body is unusually willing to change direction — and a new trial suggests what you eat inside that window matters far more than the same effort made later. Researchers tracked what happened in the gut, and the people whose bacteria shifted the most saw the biggest changes in their numbers. But there is a catch that flips the usual advice on its head: piling on fiber too early can make everything worse.
#GutHealth #BloodSugar #Fiber #Microbiome #Mercola
Subscribe for FREE to the latest health news: bit.ly/mercola-subscribe
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:39 34 newly diagnosed diabetics, none on medication yet
1:11 A1C dropped 9.45% versus 1.44% on conventional care
1:33 the crossover group that never fully caught up
2:05 the gut bacteria that shifted the most
3:16 why more fiber is not automatically better
4:38 the seed oils that make fiber intolerable
5:15 Dr. Mercola's own Homa IR score is 0.2
Explore the staged fiber sequence and the full HOMA-IR formula in this article:
bit.ly/4xgRsb5
Website: bit.ly/488ndaR
Podcast: bit.ly/3A3HDFr
Facebook: facebook.com/doctor.health
Instagram: instagram.com/drmercola
Twitter: twitter.com/mercola
Telegram: https://t.me/DoctorMercola
Truth: truthsocial.com/@Mercola
Gab: gab.com/Mercola
Gettr: gettr.com/user/mercola
Mewe: mewe.com/p-front/dr.josephmercola
