Iv noticed things like sucralose don’t effect me as much as they used to. I’m 3 months in keto and although for most of the time I have sworn off any kind of sugar I recently had Starbucks with 2 pump sugar free vanilla. Now back when I first started keto this would have brought my glucose levels in the 90’s and my keto levels in the low 1.0’s. Now it doesn’t seem to do much. I did it mostly to change things up and to see how it effects me - if it still effects me plus I have a ton of glucose strips left so I tried it yesterday and I was 76 on my glucose meter . Ketone moniter has been a steady 1.8 the last week not much has budged that. Is my body just more fat adapted and so low amounts of sugar aren’t much of a bother like in the beginning ?
Sucralose and glucose levels- happily surprised
I think it works the opposite. When you have an insulin spike your blood sugar goes down. Sucralose isn’t sugar.
Sounds like your body is healing itself with the keto WOE. Glad you got a good result.
His point is that if you’re not ingesting sugar, your blood sugar shouldn’t spike.
It sounds like you might have been given the wrong syrups at the ole Starbucks joint. That happens all the time - they don’t really give a crap about how we eat.
People make the claim that artificial sweeteners raise people’s BG, and they make these claims all the time. As poor a job as the FDA might do, I would think that they would come down HARD on the company that manufactures Splenda if they were to find that their product caused a blood glucose spike - particularly when you consider that they allow it to be marketed to diabetics with the help of the ADA.
I would think that the public outcry from diabetics would be staggering if that were to happen…
Well there are plenty of people who report issues using some types of artificial sweeteners, I think it might vary a lot through out the population.
The ADA support SAD, so what do they know about controlling BS? Give them more insulin and oh some of the new pharma products too. More money for everyeone but the diabetic.
A LOT actually. I’m not saying the ADA isn’t doing a piss-poor job. But the “Big 6” artificial sweeteners are marketed with claims that they simply do not raise blood glucose. Yet people claim that they do - which runs afoul of the FDA’s own guidance.
Say what you will about how poor these organizations might be in the field of people’s health, the FDA is simply not going to ignore a legitimate claim that a substance marketed to not increase blood glucose is actually doing just that.
With as large as the current diabetic population is, and the litigious nature of the good ole US of A, there is no way you’ll get me to believe that there is any truth to the claim that “artificial sweeteners raise my blood glucose.” I seriously believe the FDA would absolutely pursue it if there was any evidence to support it.
Yeah cuz I used to also eat sugar free jello and my glucose would be high and keto levels lower. last night I had 2 jellos ( I know I shouldn’t have but I cleaned out my fridge and it taunted me ) and my reading 2 hours after was 76 before it would be like 90. So I believe sucralose does effect people because for me it seemed too. If I have no sugar at all- and I mean at all -my levels are always low on glucose and high on the ketone . If I have sucralose now it seems to be in the high 70 to 80s on the glucose and in the 1.5-2.0 range for kentone moniter - I’m not complaining I like being able to eat sugar now ( sugar substitutes / and obviously in mondertion ) because before I had to avoid them like the plague
It is pretty clear from independent research that these “non-nutritive sweeteners,” as the FDA calls them (there is no name for them that is not partially inaccurate) do not raise glucose. The experience on these forums, however, is that people can experience a rise in insulin after ingesting one of these sweeteners, and @Ketokellie, if you want to test for yourselfe the way to do it is to test your glucose just before having the sweetener, and again at 30, 60, 90, and possibly even 120 minutes after, to see what readings you get. If you notice a large dip, then it is likely that it was caused by an insulin spike. (Unfortunately, there is no way to measure our insulin at home.)
I suspect that when some of those people out there claim that they saw a glucose rise from one of these sweeteners, they actually meant insulin and just used the wrong word. Others, I am sure, are convinced that it was in fact their glucose that spiked . . . because Interwebz.