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Sugar free spiking sugar

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Beth mck

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Type of diabetes
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Hi

Can I ask for some advice please

Has anyone noticed that when they drink any carbonated 'sugar free' or 'zero' drinks it raises their blood sugar

Twice in the last week I've had a 'zero' marketed drink, one was coke zero and one was oasis zero and both times after drinking it my sugar level was raised

I know this was from the drinks as beforehand they were normal and I had nothing to eat before I next tested, only the drinks

Does this happen to anyone else??
 
We are all different, and many peoples system reacts to various artificial sweeteners as if it was sugar. By testing before and after, you can ascertain which if any sweeteners your body is sensitive to.
This is why many of us prefer to do away with the sweet stuff so as to avoid this scenario. I only use Erythritol myself, as i know it has no affect on me, but i still rarely use it.
 
Could be that your body starts producing more insulin because it detects 'sweet'. But because there is no actual carbs in the zero drink, your bg starts to drop... and then your liver over compensates by dumping more glucose into your bloodstream. Which ends up taking your bg higher than normal!

This diabetes thing has been a mad learning journey. It's crazy how sophisticated our bodies are. They actually start preparing for the food we're eating before it even hits our stomach!

I think it's best to avoid artificial sweeteners and ultra processed foods if you can. They can mess with our system as we're tricking our body into thinking it's getting something it's not.

Similar thing with savoury flavours of crisps. There's a theory that one of the reasons that 'once you pop, you can't stop' is that you're tasting savory protein flavor so your body is expecting protein and all those lovely amino acids that go with that flavor. But you're not getting them from the crisps. It's a fake flavour. So our body tells us to eat more until we get what we're expecting.
 
Thanks.for the advice

It was from a bottle not a dispenser

I agree having diabetes is a huge learning journey, every person Is different, my dad for example is also T2 and he can eat things that don't spike him but the same food will spike me

I'm going to just stick to water I think
 
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