KimberleyEdith
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- Type of diabetes
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I'm trying to understand better the metabolic processes to try and control blood sugar better.
Does anyone have a good understanding of this and can explain in a simplistic way the relationship between ketones, BG and insulin:
I feel like there is a relationship between morning starvation ketones and the extent of the BG breakfast spike (higher breakfast spike with higher morning starvation ketones despite prebolus):
1) I have somewhere in the back of my mind that during sickness days "the insulin works on the ketones first" ( I think this is when BG and ketones are high and borderline DKA which is a different biochemical process presumably to the starvation ketone scenario?)
Is this true? Is this why his carb ratio is so high compared to the rest of the day?
2) What foods can combat ketones but not raise blood sugar. Is it only carbs that can get rid of starvation ketones and not fat/protein?
If anyone has any literature/studies they find useful also? Thanks
Mother of T1D
Does anyone have a good understanding of this and can explain in a simplistic way the relationship between ketones, BG and insulin:
I feel like there is a relationship between morning starvation ketones and the extent of the BG breakfast spike (higher breakfast spike with higher morning starvation ketones despite prebolus):
1) I have somewhere in the back of my mind that during sickness days "the insulin works on the ketones first" ( I think this is when BG and ketones are high and borderline DKA which is a different biochemical process presumably to the starvation ketone scenario?)
Is this true? Is this why his carb ratio is so high compared to the rest of the day?
2) What foods can combat ketones but not raise blood sugar. Is it only carbs that can get rid of starvation ketones and not fat/protein?
If anyone has any literature/studies they find useful also? Thanks
Mother of T1D
