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Fasting & High Blood sugar levels

Majid Naqvi

Majid Naqvi

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
I am fasting now a days due to Ramadan but I don't know why instead of fasting my blood sugar levels are very high. as far as i know, fasting makes blood sugar low..
 
Welcome @Majid Naqvi
when you don't eat your liver will release some of its stored glucose, it's an automatic and natural response. It's not particularly a bad thing, and the reason many of us use intermittent fasting.
The sugar you are seeing in your blood has not just appeared out of thin air, It's just been stored away in your liver where you can't see it. Now because of your fast it's been moved into you blood where you can see it, and more importantly use it.
Think of your body as an overflowing sugar bowl, when you don't eat you can start to empty that bowl
 
catinahat said:
Welcome @Majid Naqvi
when you don't eat your liver will release some of its stored glucose, it's an automatic and natural response. It's not particularly a bad thing, and the reason many of us use intermittent fasting.
The sugar you are seeing in your blood has not just appeared out of thin air, It's just been stored away in your liver where you can't see it. Now because of your fast it's been moved into you blood where you can see it, and more importantly use it.
Think of your body as an overflowing sugar bowl, when you don't eat you can start to empty that bowl
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so it means, the more sugar liver will release, will be good for my diabetes? and if i fast more often, my liver willl be sugar free some day? is it a good thing?
 
Your liver will never be sugar free because storing sugar is one of your livers jobs. When we eat any excess energy, it is stored either as fat or sugar.
In the absence of food you will first use up your stored sugar because that's the quickest and easiest one to burn, when your sugar is used up your body will turn to your stored fat for energy
Too much sugar in your body is a symptom of diabetes, not the cause.
The cause if you are a Type 2, is that your insulin is no longer as effective as it should be. Normally the glucose from the carbohydrates in your diet is taken up by the insulin and burnt for energy.
Because your insulin is not working well, the glucose stays in your blood and eventually gets stored away or converted to fat.
So yes burning some of the excess sugar off when you are fasting is a very good thing. Not putting sugar in by eating too many carbohydrates, is even better.
 
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catinahat said:
Your liver will never be sugar free because storing sugar is one of your livers jobs. When we eat any excess energy, it is stored either as fat or sugar.
In the absence of food you will first use up your stored sugar because that's the quickest and easiest one to burn, when your sugar is used up your body will turn to your stored fat for energy
Too much sugar in your body is a symptom of diabetes, not the cause.
The cause if you are a Type 2, is that your insulin is no longer as effective as it should be. Normally the glucose from the carbohydrates in your diet is taken up by the insulin and burnt for energy.
Because your insulin is not working well, the glucose stays in your blood and eventually gets stored away or converted to fat.
So yes burning some of the excess sugar off when you are fasting is a very good thing. Not putting sugar in by eating too many carbohydrates, is even better.
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here is a thing, when i am fasting and my sugar level goes up and insulin can not burn it? so its stored again ? or this high level sugar will be somehow burnt while fasting ?
 
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