Re: Type 2's : What was your fasting blood glucose in a morn
My average is around 8. Can't find a way to reduce that, though I suspect better sleep and eating more lightly at night may help.
You might fiond this interesting, if you can read between the lines:
" During the day, humans burn glucose... from ... food. This ... supplies the muscles and other parts of the body expending energy. At night, when we sleep, we revert to stored fat as a source of very dependable but slowly released energy. But certain parts of the body, most notably the brain, require glucose as a source of energy, even when we fast.
Pancreatic islet cells control both sides of this energy equation. Located in the pancreas, they produce glucagon, a hormone released during fasting, to tell the liver to make glucose for use by the brain. This process is reversed when we feed, and when the pancreatic islets release insulin, which tells the liver to stop making glucose.
Thus glucagon and insulin are part of a feedback system designed to keep blood glucose at a stable level.
The new findings ...identify a relay system that explains how glucagon activates (a) switch during fasting, and how that system is compromised during diabetes. " "But in insulin-resistant type II diabetic individuals, the switch is turned on too strongly because the insulin signal is not getting through,"
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/ ... 040612.php
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pete T2D Last HbA1c way too high so have embarked on a strict supplement regime. Next test soon.