Higher sugar consumption causing sweet smelling urine
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Over the last month I've been eating more sugar, and over the last few days drinking 2-3 litres of skimmed milk daily. I've had sweet smelling urine after consuming sugar for a while, and this has been more prevalent during my milk experiment. I've also noticed more stressful processes such as my heart pounding when falling asleep, getting OOB and higher heart rate during excersise, consistently getting up in the night to urinate and sleeping worse/feverish dreams.
My diet over the last month has been fruit, OJ, coffee, milk until afternoon, then carrot, eggs, cheese, fruit lunch and meat potato dinner, occasional coconut oil throughout the day, oysters, fish occasional also. Low pufa outside of dairy, egg and fish. Recently started taking thiamine also.
My presumption is my blood sugar gets too high, probably some stage of insulin resistance. I'm not sure what to do to combat this, eating sugar forces me into the bathroom despite not drinking many liquid. It feels like I'm wasting what I'm eating, despite feeling OK my body clearly is in some stress. Is a dietary/lifestyle change necessary?
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I didn't know urine could smell sweet and I don't know what sugar smells like tbh.
Over 100 years ago diabetics were found to have sweet tasting urine by doctors. I guess it could smell different too but idk.
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I learn something new every day. From livestrong.com:
If You Have Sweet-Smelling Urine...
It might be an infection, or it could be diabetes.
Some patients who have UTIs actually describe the smell of their urine as sweet, Dr. Agarwal says.
More commonly, this might be a sign of diabetes. If you have uncontrolled diabetes, sugar is being eliminated in your urine, which can add a sweet smell.
"This would be accompanied by going to the bathroom more frequently and an increased urge to go," Dr. Agarwal says.
I guess I'd know it if I smelled it but sugar really has no smell at all so I'll stay confused on this one.
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@Insomniac It would be most noticeable after consuming artificial sweeteners, in my case instant porridge and syrup for coffee (i havent had either of these in months). The smell is less common nowadays, but the point that sugar causes excess urination stands.
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@bantoidbelittler Well it's an interesting topic. Things like strong coffee will change the smell of my urine. I probably don't notice small changes.
You can buy urine test strips for practically nothing online and they could be educational tell you about kidney health and if there's sugar in you blood. You can buy blood glucose strips everywhere and track down how your body is functioning even better.
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@Insomniac https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/glucose-sucrose-diabetes.shtml
I'll try eating more.