My glucose took an absolute nose dive down to 58 after I ate a big dinner (carrots w/hummus, fettuccini w/chicken and low fat popcorn) then got on my exercise bike:
I’m thinking the insulin surge from the meal combined with the insulin-independent glucose uptake from the exercise to cause the hypoglycemia. The sharp spike up was me panicking and eating 3 small tangerines and an extra-ripe banana😆.
Either way, looks to me like I’ve got some serious insulin resistance to deal with. Which is strange since I’m 7% visceral fat and 14% body fat, which isn’t great but isn’t terrible. I think my problem is an almost complete lack of Zone 2 training my entire life. I’ve done lots of walking and lots of resistance training x decades, with nothing in between. Now adding 3+ hours/week of Zone 2 to reprogram my mitochondria (and increase their number).
do you do any resistance training?
building muscle will help somewhat with glucose disposal
have you ever tried doing a multi day fast, to really deplete glycogen?
other things that i have found make a big difference
amount of sleep night before
stress level
taking a brisk walk for even 15min after eating the carbs
lifting weights before eating
i have no patience for resistance training unless it’s done next to a computer (ADHD)
i just had glucose spike to 160 after eating ~1100 calories of black beans (+200mg acarbose). when it’s just 760 calories of black beans, it barely spikes… I guess this means I shouldn’t eat all 3 cans next time [but is super-informative for me because I know I’ve binged like this before]
I mean… imagine the spike when it’s 1100 calories of bread… I don’t even WANT to imagine this [but I know I’ve done it before, and probably NEVER AGAIN]
That is so surprising to me that even 3 cans of beans would cause such a spike! Were they just plain black beans, or were there any flavorings/additives/sugars added to them?
I’m trying to follow Mike Lustgarten’s nutritional approach in longevity - he’s the only PHD nutritionist I know of that is focused on healthy longevity with a hardcore science focus. Below are all the links to Mike’s websites and videos. I was a member of his patron site - but have recently discontinued that.
Here is mike’s typical daily diet:
Here is my diet / blood sugar results from the other day - lots of nuts, carrots, mushroom/spinach etc. stir fry, sardine’s etc… Note - the below measures are likely 10 to 20 points below my real blood sugar levels as that is typically the case when I compare the CGM with my finger prick measures.
Three bowls of Kashi Cinnamon Harvest with unsweetened almond milk and a ripe banana. Goes to show you that “whole grain” isn’t necessarily low glycemic!
Interesting - from the podcast you referenced - here is more information. Can you share some of the research on luteolin and fructokinase that you found compelling? Any idea of the dose? At the bottom I link to a sample product that has luteolin as a supplement - is that the type of product you think might work to help inhibit fructokinase?
But when fructose is metabolized… the enzyme that metabolizes fructose is called fructokinase
And when that metabolizes fructose, it consumes ATP in an unregulated way
So if the cell sees a lot of fructose, the ATP levels can plummet by 40 or 50% in the cell
And that produces a “May Day” signal, “we’re under attack, we’re running out of energy! ”
So it switches the animal into a condition in which they’re trying to preserve their energy
They reduce their metabolism
They reduce their resting energy expenditure
They push the calories eaten into fat and glycogen as opposed to making more ATP as a way to protect the body by putting you into a system where you try to store fuel
Additionally, it triggers hunger and thirst that makes you want to eat more so you eat more to restore the energy but at the expense that you’re shunting much of it into fat and into fuel storage
and further on…
-If you block fructokinase, many cancers don’t do as well
Putting high fructose corn syrup intestinal colon cancer will cause the cancer to grow and metastasize and if you block fructokinase and block fructose metabolism, you can reduce the growth : High-fructose corn syrup boosts intestinal tumor growth in mice
I don’t even WANT to imagine this [but I know I’ve done it before, and probably NEVER AGAIN]
