Posted by Declan on November 17, 2006, at 15:43:12
A comparison of my 3 and 4 hour glucose tolerance tests (half hourly measurements) in 2000 and 2006 shows the effects of appropriate diet in the management of insulin resistance and stress hormone levels.
The results show
1. Initial baselines of blood sugar, insulin and cortisol not very different in the 2 tests.
2. Rapid rise in blood glucose one half hour after administration similar in both tests and greater than ideal.
3. Thereafter, insulin levels in 2006 are between under half and a twentieth of those in 2000 at the half hour points.
4. Cortisol levels are much more even and have no need for rapid rises to slow reactive hypoglycemia.. The later readings range from under half the earler ones to slightly above them.
5. There is much less need for cortisol levels to greatly rise to offset too low glucose caused by an excess of insulin. The graph of my earlier levels shows the insulin/blood sugar/cortisol feedback overcorrecting like a drunk driver.
I was prediabetic with Syndrome X.
Declan
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