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Lacustral
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i posted here earlier ... i have been changing my diet radically, for the better ... I was eating a
lot of fructose, tapering off from 350 calories/day. Then when i quit the fructose in mid-January i
wasn't able to tolerate carbohydrates hardly at all, so I was getting most of my calories basically
from nuts. If i ate a few berries i would practically get an anxiety attack.
Feb 12'th I started taking chromium and alpha lipoic acid to improve my insulin sensitivity --
eating sugar depletes you of chromium and copper so I'm sure i was deficient in them. It helped a
lot, for about a week i've been able to eat about a 40% fat diet.
But the thing is, what the chromium did was to change my anxiety, jittery, hyped up feelings from
carbohydrates, for a totally knocked out feeling, after eating carbohydrates i basically have to go
lie down, i feel really woozy, knocked out. Just fat doesn't do this to me.
It is slowly getting better. For a few days on the 40% fat diet I was just sick in bed feeling bad
all day, now I feel pretty good most mornings and the knocked out feeling starts after a meal.
I did reluctantly get a blood glucose meter on somebody's suggestion ... My fasting blood glucose is
great, it was 78. I took my blood glucose when I was feeling kind of out of it about an hour after a
meal and it was
127. When I got my blood glucose tested by a doctor, sort of halfway between meals, when i was
feeling more or less OK, it was 105.
Those aren't high numbers ... but me feeling woozy certainly seems to be about my blood
glucose level.
Is it individual, the level of blood glucose that makes you feel sleepy and woozy????
Like 127 might be a high level *for me*, after living for months on a high fructose, high fat diet
that I'm sure did NOT raise my blood glucose much after meals.
i might be glucose intolerant, the meal that gave me the blood glucose of 127 wasn't exactly much of
a carbohydrate challenge and I don't know what a 75-gram glucose challenge would do to me.
I'm certainly not diabetic though, and that is reassuring.
The fructose is diabetogenic in large quantities altho small amounts might be OK ... I don't know
how much "small" is, I have seen a LOT about the bad effects of fructose but I don't know how much
you have to eat to get the bad effects. The nice thing about fructose is that it doesn't raise blood
sugar much. A high fat diet is also diabetogenic.
http://www.lightlink.com/lark/why.html
lot of fructose, tapering off from 350 calories/day. Then when i quit the fructose in mid-January i
wasn't able to tolerate carbohydrates hardly at all, so I was getting most of my calories basically
from nuts. If i ate a few berries i would practically get an anxiety attack.
Feb 12'th I started taking chromium and alpha lipoic acid to improve my insulin sensitivity --
eating sugar depletes you of chromium and copper so I'm sure i was deficient in them. It helped a
lot, for about a week i've been able to eat about a 40% fat diet.
But the thing is, what the chromium did was to change my anxiety, jittery, hyped up feelings from
carbohydrates, for a totally knocked out feeling, after eating carbohydrates i basically have to go
lie down, i feel really woozy, knocked out. Just fat doesn't do this to me.
It is slowly getting better. For a few days on the 40% fat diet I was just sick in bed feeling bad
all day, now I feel pretty good most mornings and the knocked out feeling starts after a meal.
I did reluctantly get a blood glucose meter on somebody's suggestion ... My fasting blood glucose is
great, it was 78. I took my blood glucose when I was feeling kind of out of it about an hour after a
meal and it was
127. When I got my blood glucose tested by a doctor, sort of halfway between meals, when i was
feeling more or less OK, it was 105.
Those aren't high numbers ... but me feeling woozy certainly seems to be about my blood
glucose level.
Is it individual, the level of blood glucose that makes you feel sleepy and woozy????
Like 127 might be a high level *for me*, after living for months on a high fructose, high fat diet
that I'm sure did NOT raise my blood glucose much after meals.
i might be glucose intolerant, the meal that gave me the blood glucose of 127 wasn't exactly much of
a carbohydrate challenge and I don't know what a 75-gram glucose challenge would do to me.
I'm certainly not diabetic though, and that is reassuring.
The fructose is diabetogenic in large quantities altho small amounts might be OK ... I don't know
how much "small" is, I have seen a LOT about the bad effects of fructose but I don't know how much
you have to eat to get the bad effects. The nice thing about fructose is that it doesn't raise blood
sugar much. A high fat diet is also diabetogenic.
http://www.lightlink.com/lark/why.html