Diabetic-level glucose spikes seen in healthy people

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(Cheryl Meyers) #1

From Stanford Medical in July, just saw this today:

A study out of Stanford in which blood sugar levels were continuously monitored reveals that even people who think they’re “healthy” should pay attention to what they eat.

A device that keeps extra-close tabs on the ups and downs of blood glucose levels reveals that most people see only a partial picture of the sugar circulating in their blood, according to a study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

It turns out that the level of sugar in an individual’s blood — especially in individuals who are considered healthy — fluctuates more than traditional means of monitoring, like the one-and-done finger-prick method, would have us believe. Often, these fluctuations come in the form of “spikes,” or a rapid increase in the amount of sugar in the blood, after eating specific foods — most commonly, carbohydrates.

(Ethan) #2

So… eating carbs raises blood glucose? Wow.

(Todd Allen) #3

The headline should have put the word healthy in quotes. They think they are healthy because disease is not yet painfully obvious. I’d say the big wow is the idea that typical medical practice of an annual fasting blood glucose and maybe an HbA1c is inadequate to evaluate blood glucose control.

I think many of us here had already figured that out, But when it becomes common knowledge through post prandial glucose testing it will spell the end of the institutionalized HCLF diet.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #4

Dr. Joseph Kraft was convinced that the proper diagnostic for diabetes and pre-diabetes is insulin levels. He maintained that you could predict trouble years in advance of the rise in glucose level. Ivor Cummins has quite a bit about it on his Web site, www.fatemperor.com. He and Dr. Gerber interviewed Dr. Kraft before he died, and I believe the video of it is on the LCDU YouTube channel. If you can’t find it there, look on Ivor’s site.

(Todd Allen) #5

I’ve seen Ivor’s stuff and I expect Dr. Joseph Kraft had it right. Catherine Crofts has revisited his work and has also shown that Homa IR (fasting glucose and insulin) is also inadequate, one really needs the post prandial curves to truly see what is going on. But glucose testing is far cheaper and more accessible than insulin testing and if we would merely use that to get post prandial curves we could catch a lot more if not most pre-diabetics much sooner than we do now.

(Mother of Puppies ) #6

I agree with this, 100%.

Even as a skinny, healthy child, whenever I was exposed to sugar (very infrequent) it was an instant binge, as if insulin were spiking super high and blood sugar were falling quickly.

Over the years, I tried to tell doctors something was wrong with my “sugar appetite.” No one really listened.