Glucose loading cures everything?
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@Ben said in Glucose loading cures everything?:
Dextrose feels absolutely different to other carb sources (maybe due to the microbiome).
Not realy fond of dr stephens explanation tho. Totally understand anyone who doubts the whole thing.
Hello Ben. If you're comfortable doing so, could you share difficulty with sugar/fruit relative to this?
I'm gathering, and reading, and thinking. Sure I'm not the only one. So your answer's for the room.
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Not realy having difficulty per se with other carb sources. But they do almost nothing for energy or brainfog or wellbeing. They just satiate and taste ok or make me sleepy. Some even cause minorish issues like pizza/certain breads/orange juicr
causing inflammation in my gums on some days, rice seems to make my digestion back up a little(constipation?) and soft drinks, fruit juices and honey make my teeth sometimes feel unpleasant.Dont have any of that with dextrose. The high dose at once might make one feel a little off for 2-5 mins but then its good mood and brainfunction for me.
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@Ben said in Glucose loading cures everything?:
Not realy fond of dr stephens explanation tho. Totally understand anyone who doubts the whole thing.
The effects and changes i experience are amazing however. With only little sideeffects.
I will report back in 6 months wether im diabetic and fat or if i abolished my health issues.Yes. Also, diabetics will admonish us of the impending doom and immediate and forceful creation of long-term diabetic damages on kidney, heart, eyes and everything due to apparently not really measurable spikes in BG and insuline and the signalling for such drastic insuline spikes and due to the apparently covert extreme stress signalling for regulation of BG when the dextrose serving wears off.
I wonder whether there's no cause to worry about the latter as long as dextrose dosing is so that liver glycogen stores always remain full? Or as long as dextrose dosing is sufficiently continuous, either by osmotic stomach concentrations (with little water or with foods) or by 2-hourly servings? Would these measures reliably prevent the otherwise typical and dreaded stress responses which we otherwise might not even consciously take notice of (as diabetics would warn)?
Maybe Dr. Stephens' therapeutic approach as far as we know it is not the cleverest or gentlest way to go about it yet. However, there's undeniably something fundamentally effective about regularly lots of dextrose.
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@Ben I think we could use more science in the explanation, but he admits that this isn't something that has been researched much. I began homeopathy 35 years ago with no "research" to be found. It saved my life. This can't hurt, and I'm retracing something every day. These past few days it's been covid tongue. Red meat...
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@Ben Great report!
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I've gotta say, we love the glucose therapy so far. We had a long day yesterday and got home late. I don't believe we could have kept up the pace without it. Even my husband, who isn't always enthusiastic about yet ANOTHER experiment was asking for more. Both of us were transformed within seconds each time after taking it and we were able to keep up with our little grands (2 and 6) until very late.
The next test was whether I would have insomnia after a very busy day and long drive home. I usually have to start winding down around 8:30. Unloading the car and putting away groceries (which I was doing at 11 PM) will usually keep me awake for hours. But a small dose of glucose water and a snack and I was out fast.
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@S-Holmes how much dextrose are you taking?
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Thank you @Ben
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@Razvan I try to be consistent with 12 grams every 2 hours. We were taking 25 grams 4 times a day but it seemed to make us lethargic so may have been triggering a healing "crisis."
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Speaking of herxing, we have both had SYMMETRIC itchy rashes, lasting about an hour each, my husband's on both forearms and mine on both pinky fingers. In classical homeopathy, itchy rashes represent the pinnacle of healing.
You never want to suppress an itchy rash. Case in point. My mother had an itchy rash on her legs. The doctor gave her steroid cream for it. Long story short, she ended up in the ER with pneumonia. The skin and lungs are functionally connected. When eruptions are suppressed the lungs are adversely effected.
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I recall reading somewhere where Ray says BG going high isn't that harmful as the body has ways to deal with it. But he didn't elaborate. But later on I would learn that the body converts glucose to fructose under high BG conditions, and also dumps glucose into urine as kinda like a safety valve.
OTOH, being low on blood sugar leads one to be unable to sleep, leads to high stress hormone levels, fainting, lowered immunity, and to becoming sensitive to respiratory allergies and to being vulnerable to infections leading to fever and flu.
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@S-Holmes said in Glucose loading cures everything?:
I've gotta say, we love the glucose therapy so far. We had a long day yesterday and got home late. I don't believe we could have kept up the pace without it. Even my husband, who isn't always enthusiastic about yet ANOTHER experiment was asking for more. Both of us were transformed within seconds each time after taking it and we were able to keep up with our little grands (2 and 6) until very late.
The next test was whether I would have insomnia after a very busy day and long drive home. I usually have to start winding down around 8:30. Unloading the car and putting away groceries (which I was doing at 11 PM) will usually keep me awake for hours. But a small dose of glucose water and a snack and I was out fast.
Do you always use it in water? I've tried milk and like it more since it's not so sweet. But not sure if that is a good thing or not.
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@ThinPicking said in Glucose loading cures everything?:
Thank you @Ben
I have that same experience. 25 grams makes me feel exhausted. I'm doing smaller increments now too. Still afraid to gain weight but we'll see.
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@happyhanneke I use it in water, coffee, lemonade in place of sucrose. I sometimes use both sucrose AND dextrose if I need more sweetener but don't want to overdo the dextrose.
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Dr. Stephens in an email exchange with me: "You will be so excited with the outcome of this."
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Same. This dextrose protocol is like nothing I’ve tried before. So much different than high sucrose and general high carb eating.
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@yerrag said in Glucose loading cures everything?:
OTOH, being low on blood sugar leads one to be unable to sleep, leads to high stress hormone levels, fainting, lowered immunity, and to becoming sensitive to respiratory allergies and to being vulnerable to infections leading to fever and flu.
By this I must have been having functionally low glucose throughout the miserable half of my life.
Generally irrespective of whether my fasting BG was a mere 60 or a borderline-high 99 mg/mL. -
The funny and cruel thing is that we are always concerned with high blood sugar, and we never hear a pipsqueak about low blood sugar.
Just as we hear of high cholesterol and worry about it, and never hear talk of the danger of low cholesterol.
Same of high blood pressure and low blood pressure.
As well as high temperature and low temperature.
How we are programmed to be blind to what really presents to be more of a danger, and spend our time worrying about what's less worrisome.
I'm glad we don't perceive friend to be enemies, and enemies to be our friends.
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@yerrag said in Glucose loading cures everything?:
I'm glad we don't perceive friend to be enemies, and enemies to be our friends.
This looks to be a normative statement? As opposed to a positive, factual statement of the predominant opposite.
In a few consecutive mornings I noticed my pulse remained elevated for longer than half an hour after my first dextrose serving.
I speculated that this may be due to me immediately soaking up all the dextrose after having used up all my glycogen stores over the long stretch of time overnight. And I wondered whether increasing my (morning) serving size could alleviate this.It seems it indeed does so.
These mere 6-14gr more dextrose per serving, however, have reintroduced the sleepiness I had been having before especially during the first two-three days of dextrosing.
As someone wrote in another thread: I have no idea whether this would be related to brain healing. -
It's a lot easier if you have BG data with you. I would get a glucometer and start measuring my BG in 15 minute intervals from zero to say 3 hours. This means about 12 or 13 needle punctures into your fingers which is not painful.
Then you can see how high your BG goes before it comes down, and how fast it comes down, and how low it goes before it begins to go up.
I have a glucometer to do my own 5 hr oral glucose tolerance test from time to time and I learn a lot about how my body handles and regulates blood sugar this way.
If you've never used a glucometer, .you may be turned off by having so many pinpricks done. But if you've had at least one done, you know it's not painful.
OTOH, I think having a CGM device is a bit much. You can get enough useful data from a glucometer without having to have a CGM attached to you all the time.
With the BG data presented in an x vs y graph, x being BG and y being time, you can easily visualize and determine what is going on with how your BG fluctuates after an intake of dextrose. It would vary from person to person, which is why it is very helpful as it gives you your context, and that matters a lot.
If I have blood sugar problems, I would do this. But then, I don't have BG issues. But still, I use my own 5 hr glucose tolerance test for improving my blood sugar regulation.
5 yes ago my fasting BS was s very nice 84. Now, it' at 95, which many would still envy but it shows my blood sugar regulation has worsened.
Having a 5hr OGTT chart would help identify where the problem is that I need to work on.
