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Does the sugar in toothpaste gets assimilated and affect blood sugar levels in your experience?
 
no... it isnt swallowed or shouldnt be. Never noticed a rise even using a CGM (if it was there i would see somthing)
 
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Does the sugar in toothpaste gets assimilated and affect blood sugar levels in your experience?
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There is recent research that is showing that any carbs, and also some artificial sweetners, will trigger a release of amylase in the saliva when in the mouth, before going down the gullet. This amylase may be emough to trigger the release of insulin even though there is no food to digest, so yes, it may will be #bad news# if you are T2D on a fast or LC diet. It is thought to be contributing to insulin resistance, so will not affect T1D's or others takung external insulin.
 
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As far as I know, dental-approved toothpastes don't contain sugar as it would be counterproductive to dental health.

The sweet taste comes from other additives.
 
According to something I have read, the saliva triggers insulin.
If you do get a rise, if will be minimal!
Toothpaste is not necessary for cleaning teeth.
You don't need mouthwash or floss.
And you don't get bad breath because of not using the above.
 
I agree that sweeteners may provoke an insulin response, but I think I am one of the lucky ones where it doesn't. Thank goodness. Or maybe it is just that the response is too small to show up.

To explain: I don't have any way of actually measuring my insulin, but my insulin resistance is easily tracked, since it affects my baseline readings (the less insulin resistance I have in a day, the lower my lowest readings go). So I can judge insulin resistance levels and track them by the way my exercise and carb intake cause my baseline readings to fluctuate. Discovering this was a handy benefit of the Freestyle Libre. Anyway, no matter how much erythritol and stevia I consume, my baseline readings don't fluctuate. Yet they DO fluctuate significantly with exercise and raised carb intake. So I conclude (n=1) that if these sweeteners did raise insulin levels, there would be a visible rise in insulin resistance too - and there isn't. While there is a visible drop in insulin resistance with exercise and a rise with carb intake. Hope that made sense.
 
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