That seems a bit unlikely - the body would start conserving glucose by switching to ketone metabolism to conserve glucose (which can be made in the liver from your ample protein stores aka muscles) for the brain.It can be caused by not eating for an exended period
http://www.dietitian.com/hypoglyc.htmlAt first this may sound like the opposite of diabetes because your body makes too much insulin. Hypoglycemia in fact is considered a pre-diabetic condition. It can be diagnosed by symptoms, but more accurately with a 4-hour fasting glucose tolerance test. The good news is simply eating six small meals and avoiding simple sugars can reverse your symptoms.
Reactive hypoglycemia is an over production of insulin in response to eating simple sugars. Some persons who experience hypoglycemia don't eat regular meals and may over eat simple sugars. I have worked with hypoglycemia patients who have a can of soda and a candy bar for lunch. The pancreas over responds by producing too much insulin which causes a rapid and sharp decrease in blood sugar, usually falling below fasting blood sugar levels (normal fasting blood glucose 70 - 90 milligrams per deciliter) 2 hours after the meal. If your blood sugar falls below 45 milligrams per deciliter, you may experience symptoms such as weakness, sweating, shaking or headache.
Unlike a diabetic who eats something sweet when having an insulin reaction, you should eat protein. Try eating cheese, luncheon meat or a hot dog with or without the bun. If you were to eat sweets to get your blood sugar back up, you would experience hypoglycemia again within another 2 hours or less.....................
phoenix said:
http://jeanfrederic.brun.free.fr/postpr ... 0metab.pdfLefebvre [54] on forty-seven patients demonstrated to suffer from reactive hypoglycemia (< 45 mg/100 ml)evidenced an exaggerated insulin response as the major abnormality explaining hypoglycemia, either in obese with impaired glucose tolerance or in isolated PRH. A characteristic pattern was when the release of insulin is sluggish and the insulin peak delayed withrespect to the peak value for blood glucose
While the most usual cause of an increased insulin response is most often assumed to be insulin resistance-related hyperinsulinemia [10, 54], there may be other mechanisms for hyperinsulinemia.
a fall of blood glucose below the usual levels will result in rather uncomfortable symptoms (palpitation, tremor, sweating, dizziness, blurred vision) and in dangerous disturbances in reaction time in some usual tasks like driving a car or performing a
specific exercise
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