As usual I continue to be more and more informed on diabetes. I think Bernstein's work is a huge contribution to the field of diabetes. I enjoyed his teleconference. It ended unbruptly however, which I thought was rather rude.
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Originally Posted by jen_slc  So what if you totally load up on water? I would think then, that regardless with what you distend your stomach (lettuce, water, meat, carbs), you are activating the nerve pathways that ultimately result in glucagon release and increased blood sugar. Except that when you have distended your stomach with nutrients and not water, the metabolism of those nutrients should inhibit the release of glucagon. Water wouldn't have that effect, so should we see a detectable rise in BG if we drown our stomachs in water? Has anyone noticed an effect such as this? Does anyone know the magnitude of this effect, does Bernstein or Atkins or anyone else address it? I wonder if we're just talking about a tiny increase here....
And in thinking about the person who ate a head of lettuce before swimming and ended up with higher BG levels afterward.... who says it was the lettuce and not the exercise that increased it? |
I don't think water or liquds count. The liquids diffuse pretty quickly due to osmotic pressures in the stomach and the duodenum<sp>. It seems that solids keep the stomach and lower gi 'filled' with material is what causes this effect. Or so it seems he infers, which I am likely to incline to believe.
From what I have gathered from him, a unit of Humulin R insulin is 25x more diluted then than a unit of human generated insulin from the pancrease. Thinking of this it makes me put the power of sugar into a new perspective.
I need to try this and I remember that salad example you are referring to.
I need to try it. If anyone tried it please
post your numbers.
