Dear Roxanne,

I was most interested to read your postings, especially in view of what I wrote in the thread "Dupuytren's and Insulin Resistance" a few months ago. I'm sure you are right to say that there is a connection between Dupuytren's disease and glucose in the blood. It may be that your Dupuytren's is receding simply because at present there is no glucose circulating in your bloodstream.

I wrote a few months ago that I was trying a low-carb diet. In fact I have not kept it up, since it did not totally agree with me. Nonetheless my Dupuytren's disease does not seem to have got any worse (or any better for that matter). Unless I try to do press-ups (which I don't usually) it doesn't bother me, so I don't bother about it. But I suspect that if I had a diet with a lot of alcohol and/or sugar, it would get worse.

I'm afraid I can't make any sense of that research abstract you quoted. It's pure gobbledegook as far as I'm concerned!

Do e-mail me at the address below if you'd like to discuss the matter further.

Best wishes

Andrew Goodson
agdg@supanet.com