Does anyone have results from any similar experiments? I'm wondering if the effect is so significant because I'm so unfit, and will gradually reduce as I get a bit fitter.
I was about to ask the same question. A few weeks ago I ate ore carbs than I wanted so I did a quick 5 minute burst on my stepper with bungees. It reduced my bg level nicely but it went back up again over the next few hours. I had eaten a roti. Never succumbed since diagnosis but I had decided to test myself. An hour after eating I was low 6s. 5 min spurt brought it down to mid 4s but a couple of hours later I was back in 6s. I don't usually go so high but I partly expected it because of my little experiment. I know others do short spurts to bring bg down so I tried it. Result was, as I've already said, an initial lowering but obviously the roti was still going to work.> Did you test to see if your BG stayed down?
Test 1 it did, but I've just re-tested one hour after the test 2 run (so approx 2 hours after eating) and it's gone back up to 6.6 (from 5.2 after the run).
I think that makes some sense, in that with the first test I did the run long after the meal, so perhaps all of the sugar was already processed and in the blood, whereas the second test it was sooner after eating, so perhaps the sugar hadn't reached its peak.
> Have you tried exercise with a low BG starting point to see if you then get a liver dump to put your BG back up?
No but I definitely plan to test that, probably by exercising first thing in the morning.
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