This is still a controversial topic and studies suggest ghrelin can increase or decrease insulin secretion. Ghrelin also has some affect on blood glucose regulation. Here are couple of papers to chew on;
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4058737/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2963527/
However, I am here to discuss my personal experience which is a bit encouraging for me.
From evolutionary perspective in the absence of fridge and ready-available food, I would think when our ancestors felt hungry, they would start searching or hunting for food. This means that ghrelin is a signal for the body not to consume the food within next 5 minutes (that we normally do now) and rather a signal to start searching and preparing for food. Let's say it will take an hour or 2 before they were able to eat so the ghrelin was there for this much time in the blood stream. Now what i have been experiencing is that when i get that urge of ghrelin (hunger and empty stomach not craving) and i give it a bit of time lets say 30 minutes to an hour and then i eat something even a bit carby, i don't see a spike in my sugar at all. I am thinking that somehow when you have that hunger feeling, ghrelin will release and our bodies will know its going to get sugar so insulin gets secreted (as some studies suggest), so basically if you eat at that time, your insulin level was a bit high so the sugar produced is taken care of even if your bolus insulin secretion is malfunctioning like us in diabetic.
What is your experience on that? I came to conclusion that one should only eat when real hungry and not right away when you feel first hunger signal to give it a chance for insulin to get secreted and be able to take care of extra BG.
The people here who are interested in experimenting this can try to use the similar food once when they just felt hungry (or normal food time without hunger) and once when they are really hungry after an hour of the hunger urge and see how your BG gets affected with the same meal providing whatever other constants you can manage.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4058737/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2963527/
However, I am here to discuss my personal experience which is a bit encouraging for me.
From evolutionary perspective in the absence of fridge and ready-available food, I would think when our ancestors felt hungry, they would start searching or hunting for food. This means that ghrelin is a signal for the body not to consume the food within next 5 minutes (that we normally do now) and rather a signal to start searching and preparing for food. Let's say it will take an hour or 2 before they were able to eat so the ghrelin was there for this much time in the blood stream. Now what i have been experiencing is that when i get that urge of ghrelin (hunger and empty stomach not craving) and i give it a bit of time lets say 30 minutes to an hour and then i eat something even a bit carby, i don't see a spike in my sugar at all. I am thinking that somehow when you have that hunger feeling, ghrelin will release and our bodies will know its going to get sugar so insulin gets secreted (as some studies suggest), so basically if you eat at that time, your insulin level was a bit high so the sugar produced is taken care of even if your bolus insulin secretion is malfunctioning like us in diabetic.
What is your experience on that? I came to conclusion that one should only eat when real hungry and not right away when you feel first hunger signal to give it a chance for insulin to get secreted and be able to take care of extra BG.
The people here who are interested in experimenting this can try to use the similar food once when they just felt hungry (or normal food time without hunger) and once when they are really hungry after an hour of the hunger urge and see how your BG gets affected with the same meal providing whatever other constants you can manage.
