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<blockquote data-quote="Scott-C" data-source="post: 1898656" data-attributes="member: 374531"><p>Your body has "autonomic responses", which produce adrenaline (which gives the shakes), and the alpha cells produce glucagon to tell the liver to release glucose. </p><p></p><p>Those responses will generally kick in around the 4 mark before we start getting the "neuroglycopenic" symptoms of confusion etc. through the brain starting to fade through lack of glucose.</p><p></p><p>But, over time, if there are too many lows, the initial autonomic responses can become blunted, so you the adrenaline just doesn't bother anymore, so you don't get the shakes, and the first you know about it is when your brain starts doing weird stuff.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scott-C, post: 1898656, member: 374531"] Your body has "autonomic responses", which produce adrenaline (which gives the shakes), and the alpha cells produce glucagon to tell the liver to release glucose. Those responses will generally kick in around the 4 mark before we start getting the "neuroglycopenic" symptoms of confusion etc. through the brain starting to fade through lack of glucose. But, over time, if there are too many lows, the initial autonomic responses can become blunted, so you the adrenaline just doesn't bother anymore, so you don't get the shakes, and the first you know about it is when your brain starts doing weird stuff. [/QUOTE]
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