GlucoSpike AIFree · 10 chapters · about 89 minutes
The Type 2 Diabetes Handbook
Everything worth knowing about managing type 2 diabetes, explained the way someone would explain it to you rather than at you. The mechanism first, then what to do about it.
No sign-up, no email wall. Free tools included in chapter 10.
Why this exists
Most people get a diagnosis, a pamphlet, and a follow-up in three months.
That gap is where most of the confusion lives. You are told to watch your carbs and get some exercise, which is true and almost useless on its own, because it explains nothing about why it works or which part matters most for you.
This handbook is the explanation. It starts with what is actually happening in your body, because once you can see the mechanism, the advice stops being a list of rules and starts being a set of levers you can choose between. Some of them are much cheaper than others, and knowing which is which is most of the game.
It was written for the same reason the app was. Someone I loved got the pamphlet version, and it was not enough.
Where should you start?
It reads front to back, but most people arrive with a specific question.
Just diagnosed
Start at chapter 1 and read straight through to chapter 4. That is the mechanism and the practical response, and it is about forty minutes.
Numbers came back odd
Chapter 2 explains what each test measures and what an average hides. Then chapter 7 on testing your own patterns.
Doing everything right, nothing moving
Chapters 5 and 6. It is very often movement timing, sleep or stress rather than the food you have been carefully adjusting.
Appointment coming up
Chapter 8 on medication, and the question lists at the end of chapters 2 and 8.
Contents
10 chapters, about 89 minutes of reading in total.
- 01 What Type 2 Diabetes Actually Is Not a sugar problem. A signalling problem. Once you can see the mechanism, most of the advice you have been given starts making sense. 9 min
- 02 Your Numbers, Explained A1c, fasting glucose, the two-hour test. What each one measures, what the thresholds are, and the significant thing none of them tell you. 10 min
- 03 Food and Blood Sugar Why carbohydrate is the main lever, why fiber changes the answer, and why your response to a food is genuinely yours. 11 min
- 04 Building Meals That Hold The practical chapter. How to assemble a plate, which swaps are worth making, and why breakfast is the hardest meal of the day. 10 min
- 05 Movement That Actually Moves Glucose Muscle can take glucose out of your blood without insulin being involved. This is the closest thing to a free lever you have. 8 min
- 06 Sleep, Stress, and Everything Else Why a bad night can wreck a good breakfast, what the 4am rise is, and the reasons your numbers move when your food did not. 9 min
- 07 Testing and Reading Your Own Patterns A meter, a CGM, or neither. What to test, when to test it, and how to turn a pile of numbers into something you can act on. 10 min
- 08 Medication and Your Care Team What the main classes of medication do, in plain English, so the conversation with your doctor starts from a better place. 9 min
- 09 Glossary The terms that get used without explanation, defined in plain language. 7 min
- 10 The Free Tool Kit Everything on this site you can use without paying, what each one is genuinely for, and when it is worth opening. 6 min
Chapter 10
The free tool kit
Reading is the easy part. These are the things on this site you can use without paying, each one attached to a specific question rather than a general urge to be healthier.
Barcode scanner
Point your camera at any packaged product and get a GS Score for how it is likely to hit your blood sugar, plus a plain-language verdict and what to grab instead.
Free forever, no subscription
Blood sugar log
Type in a reading from your meter or CGM and it attaches to the meal you just ate, so the predicted response and what you actually measured sit on the same curve.
Part of the app, 7-day free trial
Prediabetes risk test
CDC-validated screening questions plus symptom signals, scored in about two minutes.
Free, no sign-up
Carb intake calculator
Works out a daily carb range from your body, activity and blood sugar profile, instead of a generic number off a chart.
Free, no sign-up
Protein intake calculator
A daily protein target based on your weight and activity, with the blood-sugar reasoning explained.
Free, no sign-up
7-day meal plan generator
An AI-built week of meals shaped around steadier blood sugar, generated from your preferences.
Free
Sugar handling quiz
A short quiz on how your body appears to be handling carbohydrate right now.
Free, no sign-up
Food-by-food guides
Glycemic index and load, portion guidance, what to pair a food with and what to avoid pairing it with.
Free to read
Reading about it is chapter one. Seeing your own pattern is the rest.
Score three meals this week and you will start seeing it by the third one. Snap a photo before you eat, get the likely glucose impact, and find out before the meal instead of at 3pm. If you test, log your reading and it attaches to the meal that caused it.
7-day free trial • No credit card • The barcode scanner is free forever
This handbook is general education, not medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. GlucoSpike AI is not a medical device. Diagnostic thresholds cited are those published by the American Diabetes Association and are included to explain what a clinician is looking at, not as a scale to measure your own readings against. Talk to a qualified healthcare professional about your own situation, especially before changing anything about your medication.