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kelly baggett wrote:
> Although eating less carb in general will
> lower one's fasting blood glucose and tone down hyperinsulinemia this
> doesn't necessarily help ones response to carbohydrate and actually will
> hinder it if carried on for too long of a time.
Are you saying that long term low carb eating will permanently effect
insulin sensitivity negatively?
> The key is the proper
> amount and type of exercise, proper supplementation (lots of fish and
> flax
> oil + alpha lipoic acid), proper timing of meals (eating carbohydrates
> mainly at specific times when the body is most apt to store them in
> muscle),
> and paying attention to other things which have an effect on glucose
> tolerance and insulin sensitivity including: hypothyroidism, depression,
> excessive use of stimulants (caffeine, ephedrine or anything which causes
> negative feedback from the adrenal glands), and stress. For those who
> want
> to test this theory out simply pick up an affordable blood glucose
> monitoring device at any drugstore along with some testing strips and
> find
> your baseline morning blood sugar when eating a normal diet. After
> this eat
> 1 lb of fatty cold water fish per day or supplement with lots of fish
> oils
> (taken enough fish oil to get 6-10 grams combined DHA/EPA) , take 600
> mg of
> alpha lipoic acid per day, curtail the use of all stimulants, exercise
> aerobically and anaerobically a minimum of 3 times per week and eat a
> mix of
> high fiber carbs. After a couple of weeks of this fasting glucose
> should
> improve and morning appetite, overall metabolism and carbohydrate
> response
> should improve as well.
Would this reverse a poor carbohydrate response caused by the long term
low carb eating as mentioned above?
Is your theory based on personal experience (not that I would discount
that) or on researched sources?
Leonie
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