High fasting blood sugar

Thanks for the tag @lovinglife

Fuggs said:

Is this high level due to glucosnegenisis, and coming out my liver?

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I’d say it’s more likely the latter. Liver trying to be ‘helpful’.

I’d also wager that if you’re finger pricking rather than using a Libre or similar, you may not be seeing any periods where your numbers go lower.

In my experience my numbers fluctuate throughout the day when I’m fasting and if my body thinks it’s dropped too low, the liver ‘helpfully’ raises them again.

It might be that you’d see different results with shorter fasts or depending on how high you were running and for how long before going carnivore, this could just be a temporary ‘set point’ that will lower over time.

And if it’s just the ‘fasting’ reading you’re taking, theres an interesting Diet Doctor article that explains it which I’ll dig out and link when I’m on something more functional than a phone.

@Fuggs here’s the article I mentioned: https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/fasting-blood-glucose-higher

Fuggs said:

Many thanks for that reply, it is concerning as I thought having fasted for a few days, my blood glucose level would be low. of course my ulterior motive is to reduce my insulin levels but if my liver is producing glucose, then possibly my insulin levels will be low and that will help reversing insulin resistance.

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Definitely, and the fasting will also help with that.

@bulkbiker is much more of an expert than me when it comes to longer fasts - I’ve never been beyond 48 hours, so hopefully he’ll chime in too.