Insulin produce

(Sandor Szatmari) #1

Hello guys, is this true that my body creates insulin 5 Times a day and if i donteat those Times it will stores as fat?

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #2

The body produces insulin whenever you eat, especially if you eat carbohydrate. So if you eat less carbohydrate (we recommend under 20 g/day), then you will produce less insulin. The fewer meals you eat, the less insulin, too, and the more time out of each day that your insulin will stay low. That is a good thing.

P.S.—Welcome to the forums, Sandor, glad to have you with us.

(Cindy ) #3

I have a question about insulin spikes. If I measure my blood sugar before a meal and then measure again right after a meal…what range am I aiming for with my inevitable spike? Is the goal to keep the two measures within 20…40…60 points of one another? Its something I am curious about. Anyone have insight on this?

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

All I know is that, because insulin can’t be measured at home, the only way to infer what’s going on is to take several glucose readings, say half an hour apart. If you see a rise in glucose, followed by a sharp drop, that would be evidence of an insulin spike. Or so I understand, at any rate.

(Carl Keller) #5

How much your BG goes up depends on the glycemic index of the food you have eaten. How long your BG takes to get back to normal depends on the glycemic load of that food as well as to how well your insulin responds. People with insulin resistance will take much longer while people with insulin sensitivity will bring the BG back to normal much quicker.

But as Jason Fung likes to point out in his book The Obesity Code, simply eating low glycemic foods is not the answer to cure obesity (it certainly does help). The real answer lies in correcting the behavior of insulin and cortisol. I know that might sound confusing, but it’s possible to spike insulin without affecting your BG levels. Artificial sweeteners and stress are just a few things that can do it.

Ted Naiman explains glycemic index and glycemic load and how it affects BG and insulin in this video:

(Sandor Szatmari) #6

Thanks for the answer, my other question is that if i eat carbs it will turn to glucose on my blood and it will stored as fat if there is too much. But what happens if i eat too much fat? Basically i go surplus in calories of fat.

#7

Never mind, I clicked the wrong button. … ignore this

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #8

It’s really hard to eat too much fat. I think anyone who tried would start feeling queasy pretty quickly. But the body is capable of adjusting quite a bit, and it has ways of increasing metabolism as needed, just as it has ways of reducing metabolism if necessary.

One neat trick the body can do, is to select different metabolic pathways for metabolizing fat under different circumstances. Some of those pathways are less efficient, costing more energy to use and yielding fewer ATP molecules; whereas other pathways yield more ATP molecules at a much lower energy cost. So if fatty acids are present in abundance, the body can afford to metabolize them by means of one of the less-efficient pathways.

And of course, there is always the option of excreting what can’t be used.