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What was your fasting blood glucose? (with some chat)

4.4 this morning partly due to not having much to eat yesterday - scrambled eggs for breakfast and cheese and nuts at a birthday celebration on the evening. Think the good numbers might also be due to the glass of red wine I had for the birthday toast.
 
Lots of folk on here mention red wine ...so does it lower blood sugar ?
 
mojo37 said:
Lots of folk on here mention red wine ...so does it lower blood sugar ?
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When I have had a glass of dry wine (or spirit for that matter) numbers do seem to be reduced at least for a day or so. The downside is, the wine goes to my head almost immediately, but then I'm not a regular drinker.
 
Had a bit of a duvet week, with chest infection. Been sleeping a lot, so erratic testing. range has been 6.4 - 7.8, though fasting has been erratic too. Sometimes not waking until after midday, and sometimes forgetting to test at all. At least I haven’t felt like eating, until today, so back on track, just coughing a bit and tired, but think I have avoided need for steroid meds. Haven’t felt right since flu vacc earlier this month.

fasting today 6.7.
Will try to catch up with posts. Hope you are all keeping well.
 
mojo37 said:
Lots of folk on here mention red wine ...so does it lower blood sugar ?
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Absolutely for me (and many others). The simplest explanation that I've found is that it inhibits the liver from performing (as much) gluconeogenesis.
 
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