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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
Posted by Jost on November 17, 2006, at 18:16:21
In reply to Diet and Glucose, Insulin, Cortisol Levels, posted by Declan on November 17, 2006, at 15:43:12
Congratulations, Declan. You must be somewhere between gratified and amazed that you've managed to improve your health so much.
On another note, I believe you have a potential best-seller in there somewhere.
Jost
Posted by Phillipa on November 17, 2006, at 21:19:32
In reply to Re: Diet and Glucose, Insulin, Cortisol Levels, posted by Jost on November 17, 2006, at 18:16:21
Jost was what Declan posted good. Could you explain? Love Phillipa
Posted by Declan on November 18, 2006, at 17:52:31
In reply to Re: Diet and Glucose, Insulin, Cortisol Levels » Jost, posted by Phillipa on November 17, 2006, at 21:19:32
What we need is a link explaining simply and clearly the feedback system between blood sugar, insulin and cortisol levels, and by implication adrenaline (I think). I don't have it though.
And yes, PJ, if I understood it correctly and the measurements were correct, it was very good.
Posted by Dinah on November 20, 2006, at 10:21:14
In reply to Diet and Glucose, Insulin, Cortisol Levels, posted by Declan on November 17, 2006, at 15:43:12
That's wonderful, Declan. I wasn't aware of the insulin/cortisol connection either.
Posted by Declan on November 20, 2006, at 15:14:16
In reply to Re: Diet and Glucose, Insulin, Cortisol Levels » Declan, posted by Dinah on November 20, 2006, at 10:21:14
My uneducated understanding is this. As blood sugar rises, insulin rises to deal with it. Should blood sugar then fall too much (reactive hypoglycemia?), cortisol levels rise so as to increase blood sugar levels. (Somehow adrenaline is implicated arouind here.) Blood sugar may then overshoot, causing further rises in insulin (dealt with by the body having insulin resistance), leading to further hypoglycemia and so on. Like a drunk driver weaving across the road. This is the pattern I used to have, and still do somewhat. My nutritional doctor thinks the stress hormones arising are implicated in my insomnia, and the 4 hour GTT seemed to bear this out, because there is a biggish rise in cortisol at the 3 hour mark, which isn't too far from when my insomnia kicks in (since I have dinner and go pretty much to bed).
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