Yikes! Truvia Spike!

[wklambert]

So, this morning I tested my blood glucose (I’m non-diabetic, I am keto for weight loss and health.) and it was 120! The only thing I did before testing was lick the spoon from my favorite fat-bomb (delicious mousse). That’s it. It was a tiny amount. It took about four hours for my glucose levels to come down to normal. Which, btw, was very stable the last few days @ 99. The only sweetener in my fat bombs is Truvia. It is the spoonable variation, which is a blend of erythritol and stevia. I know their baking blend has sugar in it, but the spoonable does not. It only has erythritol carbs. I will need to do some testing now, to see how the different sweeteners affect me. No, I am not diabetic, but I still cannot allow my glucose to spike like that right? Spikes like that, mean that my insulin is spiking as well, correct? I will be testing this weekend, stevia, erythritol, and stevia/erythritol blend. I will test Truvia by itself too… I am bummed I love my mousse.

[Buttonwillow]

Please retest at other times of the day. You may have been experiencing the dawn effect.

[wklambert]

Thank you for this! After reading up on the “dawn phenomenon”, this does sound about right. I will do the additional testing as suggested. The good thing is that my blood ketones show me still in ketosis, but not optimal - yet. I appreciate your information, and will continue to monitor.

[jfricke]

The good thing is that my blood ketones show me still in ketosis, but not optimal - yet. I

What is optimal?

[Adam]

[quote=“wklambert, post:1, topic:12639”]
Spikes like that, mean that my insulin is spiking as well, correct?
[/quote] Below gives a method for testing sweeteners from which an assumption about insulin behaviour can be drawn. Insulin can be tested via lab blood test.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

How can I test to see if my blood sugar increases in response to ingesting x?
You’ll need a blood glucometer to test the glucose in your blood, and you are going to chart a Glucose curve in response to that food.
Start at least 2 hours after your last food (4 if you are type 2 diabetic), and at least 2 hours after you have woken up.
Take a Time 0 measurement - this is your baseline.
Eat the food in question, and set your alarm to 30 mins.
Take a Time 30 measurement - this is your glucose spike from that food
Take a Time 60 measurement - this should show your glucose coming back to baseline
If not at baseline take another test every hour until you are close to your baseline

How can I test to see if my insulin increases in response to ingesting x?
This is something you can do to test to see if you brain is going to play tricks on you and secrete some insulin when you eat an artificial sweetener. It doesn’t happen to everyone one and the only way to find out is to test.

What you can do is do a glucose curve and see if you are still at baseline at T30 (the sweetener doesn’t produce glucose in your blood), and then your glucose goes below your baseline at T60 then you probably secreted some insulin in response to the sweetener and you will probably have to restrict use of that sweetener.

[lfod14]

Test a couple times to make sure thats what is was, not in the AM and realize that a realize a difference of 21 is ignorable and hardly a spike. Keep an eye on it, but don’t over think it.