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Isomaltulose (brand name Palatinose)

Indy51

Indy51

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Has anyone tried this stuff? I stumbled across a reference to it and went searching. Sounds almost too good to be true on the Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isomaltulose

Some of the headlines from the article:

Slow and sustained release of carbohydrate and energy
Lower blood glucose and insulin response (with favourable incretin hormone effects cf. sucrose/glucose)
Improvements to blood glucose control
Effect on fat oxidation
Isomaltulose in weight management and body composition
Isomaltulose in physical activity and sports nutrition
Isomaltulose in type 1 diabetes patients engaging in physical activity
Cognitive performance (mood and memory)
Oral health

Sorry if it's been posted about before - maybe I missed it because I generally don't take too much notice of sweeteners.

The article didn't mention anything about gut effects, so assuming the Sugar-Free Haribos effect is missing?




 
Sorry, I've never heard of it either. It would be interesting to see if/what testing has been done as the other (all?) sweeteners are given a GRAS label in North America.
 
It's been approved in the EU and elsewhere according to the Wikipedia article.

When I searched, I got an ad for a 1kg bag for sale here in Australia. Seems to be in use in sports supplements as well. Will have to check out the sugar free stuff in my local pharmacy and supermarkets.
 
I thought this was ringing a faint bell somewhere in my brain - and found it when I re-watched the Gabor Erdosi lecture - he talks about a study comparing it with glucose at about 31mins into the video:

 
There is certainly a big difference in the graph, interesting stuff.
 
Hi folks,

I will report some partial results using palatinose.

I am non insulin dependant, 10 years-T2. Until some months ago I was using 1000-500 metformin. Currently I am not using any meds to treat diabetes except ketogenic diet due to good test results.

One problem I faced after the adoption of the ketogenic lifestyle was a lack of strength to practice weightlifting. To solve this I've tried some strategies such carb cycling and cyclic ketogenic diets. Both strategies caused binge eating episodes due to a bad relationship with some carbohydrates sources.

I confess I do not remember how I reached some texts describing palatinose. But I found this supplement and I decided to make a trial. Here are some partial results.

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This figure shows my FreeStyle blood sugar response from Nov 10 to Nov 13.

  • I've trained so hard that today (Sunday) and yesterday, I've felt overtrained. More than 200 repetitions for each (big) muscular group, ~2 hour training sessions. It was like the monster came back.
  • What was the main difference between a common source of carbohydrate and palatinose?
    • Palatinose has no smell, as well as no taste. So, it did not trigger my binge eating desire
    • Palatinose raises my blood sugar but it decreases it after a 2 hour period. Other sources I've tried did not decrease the same way and caused me binge eating desire
    • This is a bro-science sub-item: I've heard that palatinose promotes an efficient transfer of blood sugar into cells to produce ATP for weight training. To endorse such statement, please consider my November 10 and 11 responses. Did you note that my blood sugar after workout was minor than before I took palatinose?

I am from Brazil, so I think you are used to work with another system. So, if you are interested to understand what my values represent, divide them to 18,018 or use https://www.bbraun.com/en/patients/...asurement/conversion-tables-mg-dl-mmol-l.html
 
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