If you’re about to tell me that insulin stores glucose in fat and muscle, anything about the Glycemic Index, etc then you’re wasting time. I know that already.

I want an INTENSELY CHEMISTRY AND BIOLOGY based answer to how specifically lowered blood sugar levels will motivate the body chemically to favor adipose tissue metabolism. Specifically, the question comes from cinnamon – I’d always assumed that since it was an insulin ’substitute’ that it would somehow be recognized by the receptors in the GI tract and tell the pancreas to lay off with insulin production, thus less glucose would be stored on a meal without cinnamon, but thinking of it that’s really just called insulin insensitivity so that was a retarded idea arising from lack of thought on the matter.

So if you still have all the insulin the meal would normally give, and you’ve stored more glucose in muscles and liver and fat, um… how’s that help you lose weight? Shit I’m outta room, read extra below….
Fat weight, of course (not muscle mass!)

Only thing I can figure is that it makes you store stuff, which burns more calories than you ate after it’s broken down again. Like, ok, insulin tells -> store! And the cells are like, ok; and active transports use energy to do the storage and atoms are bound and stuff happens so that while you ate and had in you 100 calories here, you really only end up storing a net of 85 in the end. Then your body says crap, low blood sugar – has to break down with glucogen taking more energy and tadah, you’ve burned more.

But usually since insulin is there it acts antagonistically with burning fat so lean muscle would be catabolized a lot then. SO that sounds bad for anyone who wants to be muscle large – this would only be good for women wanting to be stick thin.

Plus, while we’re at it, we get tired when blood sugar’s low yes? Why SPECIFICALLY? Are there receptors say in our pinkey toes that say to conserve energy, sugar’s low? DETAILS!?

Thanks!

I was just diagnosed with hypoglycemia and is just curious to see if anyone knows if you need a glucose tester (like one that pricks your fingertips) for hypoglycemia.

Oh and I am going to the doctor next week, but I was just wondering if anyone knew on here.

I know that a needle needs to be inserted, etc., I need the chemistry aspect of it. What exactly is done to determine how much glucose there is and such? As much detail as possible please!!!

i had a blood test done 2hr pc in which i fasted had a bloodtest then ate a meal and 2 hours later had test done to check glucose….in this one my insulin came high………..but

i also had an oral glucose blood test done in which they gave me a glucose drink and took my blood after and the results were normal. no high insulin

does this still mean i have insulin resistance?
no i fasted for both tests 12 hours

My brother is (in his doctor’s words) a borderline diabetic. The last 3 times he’s tested after a 12 hour fasting period (with no cheating) he has had a result of 119, 118 and 119. He wants to keep from going over and loosing his medical insurance opportunity when his group policy is no longer going to cover him (that’s a complicated story). When he has to get private insurance, a single high reading for glucose can do great harm to his costs and/or his acceptability by the company. Can he do anything by way of diet or exorcise, for the days leading up to the test that would give him more favorable results by lowering the outcome of the test short term? Perhaps he will take the preventative measure and turn it into a routine. Then he won’t have to worry about such things.

IF my blood test is high do i have to do the glucose drink test? I am 34 weeks i have had this blood test done before and it was high on the normal side.
I dont mean to be funny but if they turn around and say i have gestational diabetes it really shouldnt affect much as i have got this far through pregnancy and now the doctors might give you diet sheets and your classed as high risk, bit weird if you ask me

what is normal level of glucose in blood

Last week I was diagnoised with type II diabetes. I weighed in at 267 pounds. My glucose reading was 230 (normal is 107 or below). Since then I’ve cut out sugar completely as well as carbs. It will be a little over week tomorrow and my weight is at 252, my sugar count has gone down dramatically. for example, today before dinner it was 108, 2 hrs after it was 128. It’s getting lower. I haven’t started the blood sugar medication my dr. put me on because I’m afraid it will make it go down really low. Am I really diabetic? My A1C was at a 9.7, normal is below 7. On my present course of weight loss and diet and judging from what I’ve wrote here, do you think it’s possible to reverse the diabetes type II condition? and should i take the medication with the numbers I’ve mentioned here?

I will be 27 weeks when i have my next dr. appointment and i still haven’t had the glucose screen for gestational diabetes..i thought all doctors did it between week 24-28, but my doctor didn’t say anything about it at my last appointment. Do they tell you in advance or do they just do it at your appointment? Are you not suppose to eat or drink anything so many hours before doing it?

Hi, i have just diagnosed with diabetes after my health screening. Is my level 275mg/dl very high n need medication? Can i control my glucose by exercise, n diabetic diet without any medication?

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