As a type II diabetic my goal is to keep them as low as possible. I can get them into the high 70s but feel like I will pass out, confused, shaky...do you think it will just take time for my body to adjust to the lower levels? BTW I'm coming from 4 years of having BGs irratically between 90 and as high as 800 when I was first diagnosed. I feel shaky when my BG gets lower than 95...thoughts?



-Trish

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From:         Todd Moody <[log in to unmask]>



Date:         Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:08:55 

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Subject: Re: Zero Carb Paleo





Robert Kesterson wrote:

> On Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:23:21 -0600, Todd Moody <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>>

>> ... I would add that a fasting blood glucose level close to 100 is 

>> not, in my estimation, ideal.

>

> Just curious -- what is?  (I'm really not sure what I should be aiming 

> for, other than "under 100"?)

>

According to what I've read (the reference is buried in this office 

somewhere), the pancreas "thinks" BG should be under 84 mg/dl; that is, 

if it's 84 or higher, the pancreas puts out insulin.  If it's under 84, 

the pancreas rests.  So I'm inclined to agree with my pancreas, that BG 

should be under 84.  Getting it there isn't (for me) easy, however.  

Mine tends to stay in the low 90s, although I can sometimes push it 

down.  Interestingly, I've noticed that fasting or eating no carbs do 

not help to get my FBG down.  I get best results with low, but not zero, 

carbs--maybe 20-30g/day.  Also, although I'm not a big fan of aerobic 

exercise, a little of that, with some medium-intensity intervals, seems 

to help too.  I wouldn't generalize any of this to anyone else, 

however.  I think that a BG meter is a good thing to own and use.  I 

think that I, and no doubt others, may have overactive gluconeogenesis 

responses (if that makes any sense), so that when we eat no carbs at all 

(or fast), we end up producing more glucose in the liver than we would 

have gotten if we'd just eaten a little bit of carbohydrate.  That's 

pure conjecture, but it fits my observations, in my own case.



Todd Moody