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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KennyA" data-source="post: 2734776" data-attributes="member: 517579">My experience is that fasting and exercise is more likely to provoke my liver into raising my BG, at least temporarily.  As I've been in ketosis for the best part of five years it works a little differently for me, but it's still a general principle that if more fuel is needed (as when you cut other fuel sources via fasting or need additional via exercise) our livers will see that we get it.BG levels are set and maintained by our livers, and what our livers think we need is sometimes at odds with what we'd prefer. If your liver has been used to running with higher BG levels, it will do its best to keep them at what it considers to be "normal".  So for me in the beginning, my liver was  constantly pushing my BG upwards. This is not necessarily the problem it seems, as the liver is using stored fuel to do it. And eventually, the liver will learn that we can get by with lower levels - it took my liver about four or five months to learn to do that.</blockquote>

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