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<blockquote data-quote="Sunshine_Kisses" data-source="post: 395687" data-attributes="member: 67130"><p>I'm pretty sure you'd only possibly experience a hypo if you were insulin dependent (or close to). So long as your body is producing some of its own insulin, what happens is this:</p><p></p><p>- Your blood sugar is 9 when you start your run. </p><p>- At some underermined point (lets say 2 miles for the sake of argument) you've used enough of that 9mmol for your body to get nervous about it. Again, lets say for the sake of argument you're now at 5mmol's</p><p>- your body then starts looking for other sources of glucose, but it can't find any reserves in your system, so it sends a message to the liver to produce some for you. </p><p>- the liver has a lil panic as it doesn't know how much longer you're going to run for so it just chucks out a blanket amount of glucose, hoping that will cover it. </p><p>- more often than not, it's over compensated, thus you end up with a higher blood glucose reading after your run/whatever exercise you're doing. </p><p></p><p>It's a bit overly simplistic, but hopefully makes sense? </p><p></p><p>I know that being low carb (as I am) there's an even greater chance of this happening as I've very little circulating glucose that my body could convert. What I don't know (but hoping someone on here will <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> ) is whether my body will adapt to low carb and running, and start using fat (or something else?!) as a fuel instead, and whether I can help my body do that? </p><p></p><p>I know 'normal' people carb load before a run to stop the liver chucking out glucose (as it can actually make you feel very nauseous) but I don't know what non-carby's are meant to do ;-)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sunshine_Kisses, post: 395687, member: 67130"] I'm pretty sure you'd only possibly experience a hypo if you were insulin dependent (or close to). So long as your body is producing some of its own insulin, what happens is this: - Your blood sugar is 9 when you start your run. - At some underermined point (lets say 2 miles for the sake of argument) you've used enough of that 9mmol for your body to get nervous about it. Again, lets say for the sake of argument you're now at 5mmol's - your body then starts looking for other sources of glucose, but it can't find any reserves in your system, so it sends a message to the liver to produce some for you. - the liver has a lil panic as it doesn't know how much longer you're going to run for so it just chucks out a blanket amount of glucose, hoping that will cover it. - more often than not, it's over compensated, thus you end up with a higher blood glucose reading after your run/whatever exercise you're doing. It's a bit overly simplistic, but hopefully makes sense? I know that being low carb (as I am) there's an even greater chance of this happening as I've very little circulating glucose that my body could convert. What I don't know (but hoping someone on here will :) ) is whether my body will adapt to low carb and running, and start using fat (or something else?!) as a fuel instead, and whether I can help my body do that? I know 'normal' people carb load before a run to stop the liver chucking out glucose (as it can actually make you feel very nauseous) but I don't know what non-carby's are meant to do ;-) [/QUOTE]
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