Blood sugar crash?
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I got up today, had orange juice and coffee, sugar, gelatin and 1/2 and 1/2 in the coffee and then a Red Bull a few hours later. Shortly after the red bull I got really shaky and weak feeling and proceeded to eat a ton of food.
Did I spike and then crash my blood sugar by only eating sugar for the first few hours of the day?
I suppose this is why you should eat all the macros together.
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@Lothric Probably. The gelatin is protein in an easily digestible and assimilable form that used plenty of sugar in a short span of time to metabolize and helped further lower the blood sugar. If the protein was regular meat, it would have slowed down the digestion and assimilation of the sugar rich intake and not have aided in driving blood sugar down after the spike in blood sugar (from the sudden deluge of blood sugar) which would trigger a strong insulin response that signaled the liver to convert blood sugar to fats to quickly drop blood sugar to low levels.
You may also have poor blood sugar absorption and metabolism which when normal would have kept your blood sugar from having a high blood sugar spike and kept you from a strong insulin response.
Temporal thinking is the faculty that’s
engaged by an enriched environment, but it’s
wrong to call it “thinking,” because it’s simply
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@yerrag I’ve only had this happen a few times and it’s always after consuming a lot of sugar/caffeine without anything else and then going to work (I work in a trade so it’s very physical). I imagine I should eat more solid foods beforehand.
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You need some complex carb like bread or rice with meat and maybe and sat fats like butter to go along with your coffee, sugar and juice.
If you still feel hungry befor lunch, you substitute bread/white rice with sweet potato or brown rice. This keeps your blood sugar stable because you are not forced to handle a flash flood of sugar that you can't absorb as easily, and instead you are receiving from your digestive system a slow trickle of blood sugar that lasts long past breakfast and extends thru to lunch.
Temporal thinking is the faculty that’s
engaged by an enriched environment, but it’s
wrong to call it “thinking,” because it’s simply
the way organisms exist... - Ray Peat Nov 2017 Newsletter -
@yerrag this makes sense I was attempting no starch.
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If you're not so sensitive to the presence of anti-nutrients and toxins in grains which are made into starch for food, you can take starch with no problem at all.
Ray Peat is sensitive somehow to them and cautions against eating starch, so he is disposed to be biased against starch. And so there is a prevailing negative take against starch among his followers.
But Ray also says that if you have a high metabolism, which provides you with high energy, you are much less likely to be sensitive to such potential irritants and allergens.
I personally have no allergies at all, as the last one I had for a long long time- allergic rhinitis- went away when my metabolism greatly improved as a result of a long period (4-5 years) of going cold turkey on PUFAs.
A lot of people have gut issues, and this makes them have a valid point against starch. So, if you are so affected, by all means avoid starch. But if you're not, there is no sense following the anti-starch bandwagon.
But if you are, maybe a way out of it is not to view it as a genetic susceptibility as much as a metabolic issue, and find a way to improve your metabolism. As improving your metabolism is like a tide that lifts all ships. It is worth your while to to spend more time on improving your metabolism than to work on each and every sundry issue in your body with a variety of nutraceuticals, supplements, and drugs that is like losing the forest for the trees.
Yet a majority, even in this forum, like to take a microscope to every little issue, and end up with unresolved issues.
