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another copy and paste : Food Intolerance
A food intolerance, or a food sensitivity occurs when a person has difficulty digesting a particular food. This can lead to symptoms such as intestinal gas, abdominal pain or diarrhea http://www.aaaai.org/conditions-and-treatments/conditions-dictionary/food-Intolerance.aspx
We have evolved to eat starches and metabolise them. We produce amylase , we even produce it in our saliva (unlike our chimpanzee and bonobo 'cousins' who have the gene but it doesn't work properly) and we also produce amylase from the pancreas Those few of us who have diabetes caused by removal of the pancreas do indeed have a problem in metabolising starch without taking enzymes.
If we had a mutation of those genes so we couldn't metabolise starch or the resulting sugars, then we would have an intolerance. There is a genetic condition causing an intolerance for sugars but it's extremely rare outside the Arctic .http://www.sucraid.net/about-csid.
If I were intolerant I would have the same sort of symptoms as someone who has lactase intolerance who drinks milk
If I do nothing, eat nothing and take no insulin my glucose levels will rise; not because of carbs but because there isn't sufficient insulin to stop the glucagon/glucose release from the liver. If I eat fat and protein in the absence of carbs my body will still make glucose and without insulin my blood glucose will rise.
I can though go for a run with only a small amount of insulin around and I can both metabolise carbs and the glucose can get into my muscles . . If you are moving there is no cell that can't take glucose with or without insulin
Both in T1 and T2 the fasting glucose level, which is diagnostic for diabetes, is determined by the amount of glucagon released . Without adequate insulin then glucose levels will rise.
It's not a carbohydrate intolerance, it's beta cells killed off or resistance resulting in a need for more insulin to get the messages through or something wrong with the signalling system.
A food intolerance, or a food sensitivity occurs when a person has difficulty digesting a particular food. This can lead to symptoms such as intestinal gas, abdominal pain or diarrhea http://www.aaaai.org/conditions-and-treatments/conditions-dictionary/food-Intolerance.aspx
We have evolved to eat starches and metabolise them. We produce amylase , we even produce it in our saliva (unlike our chimpanzee and bonobo 'cousins' who have the gene but it doesn't work properly) and we also produce amylase from the pancreas Those few of us who have diabetes caused by removal of the pancreas do indeed have a problem in metabolising starch without taking enzymes.
If we had a mutation of those genes so we couldn't metabolise starch or the resulting sugars, then we would have an intolerance. There is a genetic condition causing an intolerance for sugars but it's extremely rare outside the Arctic .http://www.sucraid.net/about-csid.
If I were intolerant I would have the same sort of symptoms as someone who has lactase intolerance who drinks milk
If I do nothing, eat nothing and take no insulin my glucose levels will rise; not because of carbs but because there isn't sufficient insulin to stop the glucagon/glucose release from the liver. If I eat fat and protein in the absence of carbs my body will still make glucose and without insulin my blood glucose will rise.
I can though go for a run with only a small amount of insulin around and I can both metabolise carbs and the glucose can get into my muscles . . If you are moving there is no cell that can't take glucose with or without insulin
Both in T1 and T2 the fasting glucose level, which is diagnostic for diabetes, is determined by the amount of glucagon released . Without adequate insulin then glucose levels will rise.
It's not a carbohydrate intolerance, it's beta cells killed off or resistance resulting in a need for more insulin to get the messages through or something wrong with the signalling system.