@yerrag said in Glucose loading cures everything?:
@Insomniac said in Glucose loading cures everything?:
@yerrag said in Glucose loading cures everything?:
If you're familiar with a blood sugar test that was widely available until the 90s (the 5hr oral glucose tolerance test, since replaced by the much less useful hokey pokey HbA1c), a 75gr bolus of glucose is taken after an overnight fast and blood sugar readings are taken every hour. This test was done under supervision because some people (with blood sugar regulation problems) could faint halfway through it because their blood sugar would drop so low.
I ask myself how much more this fainting would happen if a 200g bolus were taken. Yet this risk in not even mentioned by Dr. Stephens. And I wonder why.
That's really interesting. I didn't know about the fainting at only 75grams.
It is as if no such event has ever occurred in Dr. Stephen's trials. It's as if all people, with a wide range of blood sugar regulation issues from none to extremely tending to become hypoglycemic (I was one before I fixed myself), are not liable to faint from hypoglycemia.
At least I'm not the only one that finds this peculiar.
The only answer I could think of is that the body is equipped to handle a sudden deluge of glucose through the polyol pathway, which converts glucose to fructose, and makes possible the large absorption and metabolism of a sugar glucose possible thru its conversion to fructose.
It's a mystery to me how we dispose of glucose so fast when glycogen is full. I'll need to research the polyol pathway.
Thanks for your incites