Garlic?

[SamJermy87]

A Type 1 food question.

A couple of weeks ago I went through a phase of about 4 days where my insulin/carb ratio was clearly too much. Kept dropping into a hypo after each meal (or trying to, I kept pulling it back up with sweets and flapjack). I typically am 1 unit per 20g of carbs, but these days I was more like 1 unit per 15g of carbs. It levelled back out after those days to being to 1 unit per 20g of carbs again.

The weekend before I had a series of meals that was definitely more garlicky than I would have ever had normally. Safe to say I had eaten enough that vampires would have avoided me for a month!

Is this something that could have impacted my insulin sensitivity? Or could it have just been a coincidence with the millions of other variables that impact blood sugar?

 

[Peerless67]

A quick google appears to suggest garlic could affect your BG levels.

 

[Juicyj]

Sorry disagree completely with garlic affecting your sensitivity, what may be more likely is that your experiencing a honeymoon phase, which tends to kick in after diagnosis and when the less stressed pancreas starts spluttering insulin out. It can last up to a year depending on how well controlled your bg levels are. What will help hugely is recording your results to look for changes in your Bg levels, as well as reporting this back to your team to talk it through with them and adjust your doses if necessary to avoid hypos.

 

[noblehead]

Is this something that could have impacted my insulin sensitivity? Or could it have just been a coincidence with the millions of other variables that impact blood sugar?

Likely a coincidence.

I'm a big garlic lover and include it in a lot of dishes...............even soups It's very good for you and is said to have many health benefits, especially cardiovascular health.