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Alcohol v Carbs v Insulin v Sugars
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<blockquote data-quote="Antje77" data-source="post: 2621838" data-attributes="member: 372207"><p>I thought the body still processed carbs as normal while the liver is busy working on the alcohol. (For what it's worth, I still need to inject for whatever I'm eating, with or without alcohol, and if what you say is correct, I'd assume I'd have to change the timing of my insulin to a later moment. Hypo treatments work fine as well for me when drunk, thankfully!)</p><p></p><p>As far as I understood the glucose lowering effect of alcohol is because while the liver is busy processing alcohol it stops it's constant trickle of glucose in our bloodstream. </p><p>This is also the reason that hypos can be more dangerous after alcohol: the liver doesn't help out with extra glucose. And glucagon doesn't work either when processing alcohol.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Antje77, post: 2621838, member: 372207"] I thought the body still processed carbs as normal while the liver is busy working on the alcohol. (For what it's worth, I still need to inject for whatever I'm eating, with or without alcohol, and if what you say is correct, I'd assume I'd have to change the timing of my insulin to a later moment. Hypo treatments work fine as well for me when drunk, thankfully!) As far as I understood the glucose lowering effect of alcohol is because while the liver is busy processing alcohol it stops it's constant trickle of glucose in our bloodstream. This is also the reason that hypos can be more dangerous after alcohol: the liver doesn't help out with extra glucose. And glucagon doesn't work either when processing alcohol. [/QUOTE]
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