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<blockquote data-quote="Scott-C" data-source="post: 1791575" data-attributes="member: 374531"><p>That'll be your GLUT4, [USER=211362]@Mep[/USER] !</p><p></p><p>Glucose transporter 4 are chemicals inside cells which come to the cell surface to let glucose in to be used as energy. </p><p></p><p>They do that in response to insulin, but also by muscle contraction, so you can end up with a double whammy if you exercise after insulin.</p><p></p><p>That's why when I'm calculating a dose, it's not just the carb count I look at, I'll also be thinking about how active I've been in the last few hours as glut4 may still be in play from that, and how active I'm likely to be in the next few hours. I'll likely shave a fair bit off the dose if there has been or will be activity.</p><p></p><p>Lengthy wikipedia article on:</p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLUT4" target="_blank">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLUT4</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scott-C, post: 1791575, member: 374531"] That'll be your GLUT4, [USER=211362]@Mep[/USER] ! Glucose transporter 4 are chemicals inside cells which come to the cell surface to let glucose in to be used as energy. They do that in response to insulin, but also by muscle contraction, so you can end up with a double whammy if you exercise after insulin. That's why when I'm calculating a dose, it's not just the carb count I look at, I'll also be thinking about how active I've been in the last few hours as glut4 may still be in play from that, and how active I'm likely to be in the next few hours. I'll likely shave a fair bit off the dose if there has been or will be activity. Lengthy wikipedia article on: [URL]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLUT4[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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