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<blockquote data-quote="Lamont D" data-source="post: 1925293" data-attributes="member: 85785"><p>Hi and welcome to our forum,</p><p>It's the carbs!</p><p>If you have been diagnosed with RH, then we have an intolerance to certain foods, which have too many carbs.</p><p>My intolerance is dairy, wheat, grains, rice, starchy vegetables especially potatoes, and anything that has sugar, or is over 5% (ish) carbs!</p><p>These turn to glucose very quickly in my blood and spike high very quickly, this triggers an insulin response, which doesn't turn off, the outcome of too much insulin is the low blood glucose levels you are seeing on your glucometer.</p><p>If I avoid the carbs, no trigger for insulin, no low blood levels.</p><p>Apart from one, I have had only one hypo in over four years.</p><p></p><p>Blood glucose monitoring is an experimental process to find out how your body and blood responds to certain foods. This must be done as to give you the information.</p><p>Pre meal, one hour, two hour testing, even three hours, to discover what is happening at these times. Because we are non diabetic, we should have a pre meal reading in normal levels 4-6mmols. I like to keep my one hour reading below seven, two hours, back in normal levels. Anything above is risking an insulin overshoot.</p><p>Because we metabolise food at different rates, this is only a guide, and also, if you eat more saturated fat with your meal, it might take longer to return to normal levels and lower your spike timing. Which is good.</p><p></p><p>Keep asking questions and read our forum, the knowledge is invaluable and will probably have a dramatic effect on your health.</p><p>Because the condition is still quite rare, the treatment or advice on how to treat it is very limited and most doctors don't understand how and why it happens. That is why our forum has grown so quickly in just a few years. Very low carb lifestyle works and we have had great success stories.</p><p>It is a dietary condition, that is controlled by what you eat.</p><p></p><p>Best wishes</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lamont D, post: 1925293, member: 85785"] Hi and welcome to our forum, It's the carbs! If you have been diagnosed with RH, then we have an intolerance to certain foods, which have too many carbs. My intolerance is dairy, wheat, grains, rice, starchy vegetables especially potatoes, and anything that has sugar, or is over 5% (ish) carbs! These turn to glucose very quickly in my blood and spike high very quickly, this triggers an insulin response, which doesn't turn off, the outcome of too much insulin is the low blood glucose levels you are seeing on your glucometer. If I avoid the carbs, no trigger for insulin, no low blood levels. Apart from one, I have had only one hypo in over four years. Blood glucose monitoring is an experimental process to find out how your body and blood responds to certain foods. This must be done as to give you the information. Pre meal, one hour, two hour testing, even three hours, to discover what is happening at these times. Because we are non diabetic, we should have a pre meal reading in normal levels 4-6mmols. I like to keep my one hour reading below seven, two hours, back in normal levels. Anything above is risking an insulin overshoot. Because we metabolise food at different rates, this is only a guide, and also, if you eat more saturated fat with your meal, it might take longer to return to normal levels and lower your spike timing. Which is good. Keep asking questions and read our forum, the knowledge is invaluable and will probably have a dramatic effect on your health. Because the condition is still quite rare, the treatment or advice on how to treat it is very limited and most doctors don't understand how and why it happens. That is why our forum has grown so quickly in just a few years. Very low carb lifestyle works and we have had great success stories. It is a dietary condition, that is controlled by what you eat. Best wishes [/QUOTE]
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