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<blockquote data-quote="Oldvatr" data-source="post: 1554750" data-attributes="member: 196898"><p>I am a T2D, and never been on insulin myself, but I do read most threads on this forum, and I read articles and research reports. It is true that T1D do not suffer from muscle IR in the way that I do, but there is research that shows that T1D can suffer an IR effect when eating high levels of fat (so called pizza effect) and the effect of this is to delay the response to a meal such that any bolus is adversly affected, and not so effective in covering the meal. Also protein can give a significantly delayed rise on bgl too at a later time than the bolus effectiveness period, so can get missed. Some T1D report having to split their bolus to cover a high fat meal.</p><p></p><p>To answer the OP, I am an engineer, and to me the body is a system, with feedback paths and delay loops, and the use of a human outside the loop, as it were, injecting insulin is actually quite a hit and miss affair if there is no direct feedback capability (i.e CGM or metered pump), So T1D is not a perfect control system, and hence will oscillate with peaks and troughs naturally as a meal digests. These can be harmful in the long term, and so lowering the stimulus (carbs and protein) is an effective means of reducing these perturbations and giving better stability, (IMHO)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oldvatr, post: 1554750, member: 196898"] I am a T2D, and never been on insulin myself, but I do read most threads on this forum, and I read articles and research reports. It is true that T1D do not suffer from muscle IR in the way that I do, but there is research that shows that T1D can suffer an IR effect when eating high levels of fat (so called pizza effect) and the effect of this is to delay the response to a meal such that any bolus is adversly affected, and not so effective in covering the meal. Also protein can give a significantly delayed rise on bgl too at a later time than the bolus effectiveness period, so can get missed. Some T1D report having to split their bolus to cover a high fat meal. To answer the OP, I am an engineer, and to me the body is a system, with feedback paths and delay loops, and the use of a human outside the loop, as it were, injecting insulin is actually quite a hit and miss affair if there is no direct feedback capability (i.e CGM or metered pump), So T1D is not a perfect control system, and hence will oscillate with peaks and troughs naturally as a meal digests. These can be harmful in the long term, and so lowering the stimulus (carbs and protein) is an effective means of reducing these perturbations and giving better stability, (IMHO) [/QUOTE]
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