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<blockquote data-quote="ianf0ster" data-source="post: 2477297" data-attributes="member: 506169"><p>Some people find that due to their particular insulin response, their BG levels tend to overshoot both on the high and the low side. </p><p>Consider this possible scenario: You eat some high GL high GI carbs and your BG rises as your insulin struggles to keep pace, so your BG rises higher than you normally see But your Insulin is also at record levels in trying to deal with all that glucose.</p><p>Then you have no more glucose coming from digestion, but your insulin is still at record levels because of all that glucose you just digested. Well naturally it deals with the excess glucose in your bloodstream, but now you have excess insulin, so it drives down your glucose (to record levels) until your liver catches up and dumps more glucose into your bloodstream to stabilise the level in the normal range.</p><p></p><p>Our bodies don't always react instantly. Some people suffer from reactive hypoglycemia where because of both pancreas an liver being a bit slow their BG levels are like a rollercoaster spiking too high, then too low, then too high etc. The best way of controlling this is never to let the BG get go too high in the first place.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ianf0ster, post: 2477297, member: 506169"] Some people find that due to their particular insulin response, their BG levels tend to overshoot both on the high and the low side. Consider this possible scenario: You eat some high GL high GI carbs and your BG rises as your insulin struggles to keep pace, so your BG rises higher than you normally see But your Insulin is also at record levels in trying to deal with all that glucose. Then you have no more glucose coming from digestion, but your insulin is still at record levels because of all that glucose you just digested. Well naturally it deals with the excess glucose in your bloodstream, but now you have excess insulin, so it drives down your glucose (to record levels) until your liver catches up and dumps more glucose into your bloodstream to stabilise the level in the normal range. Our bodies don't always react instantly. Some people suffer from reactive hypoglycemia where because of both pancreas an liver being a bit slow their BG levels are like a rollercoaster spiking too high, then too low, then too high etc. The best way of controlling this is never to let the BG get go too high in the first place. [/QUOTE]
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