Blood Glucose Monitoring
Discussions focus on continuous glucose monitoring (CGM), blood sugar and insulin spikes from diet, their health impacts for diabetics and non-diabetics, and glycemic responses to foods.
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Are you controlling for blood sugar?
if you don't need alerts for extreme high/low, i don't see the value of cgm monitoring... starch/grain/sugar spikes insulin, protein gives gentle raise within 3-5 hours, fat does next to nothing and does in around 7-9 hours. mixing a bunch of fibre/fat/protein into your starch and sugar makes the insulin spike less intense...what are you guys learning about your super special non diabetic bodies that you can't learn with a $5 book of glycemic indices or
Why is a glucose spike bad for non diabetics
Wouldn't the insulin w/o sugar cause a drop, instead?
probably spiked his blood sugar causing him to eat more food in general. pretty poor article missing a million confounding variables
I mean it doesn't spike your blood glucose as much.
I wish they would’ve checked insulin response along with the glucose response.
The article mentions blood glucose and it is yes.
I'm a Type 1 diabetic. No one in the medical field, and run I've run in to my fair share of idiots along the way, has ever told me to "eat candy" when my blood sugar is low. The medical advice is that I should ALWAYS keep glucose on my person in a liquid or tablet form in case of a low blood sugar as these will bring blood sugar back up the quickest.If I do not have glucose on my person then I'm advised to drink anything that is "liquid sugar" - juice, pop
it mentions insulin a lot, and you cannot metabolise carbs without it.