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- Relationship to Diabetes
A question the scientific types among you:
The articles I’ve read about prediabetes and type 2 diabetes say that high blood sugars after meals are mostly due to the body becoming insulin resistant. Ie. producing more insulin in order to absorb the glucose floating around your blood, getting used to these higher levels, thus increasing insulin resistance and creating a sort of vicious cycle.
So what I’d like to know is, if one eats carbs fairly soon BEFORE exercising, will the very nature of the way that muscles use glucose for fuel take a good quantity of that glucose out of ones system before a larger than ideal insulin release occurs, or do you need to fuel yourself with less carbs and more protein to avoid as much total insulin being released?
The way I understand it is that insulin acts as a key to utilize glucose for energy, so basically I just want to know that one is not negating the blood sugar lowering benefit derived from exercise by flooding your system with excess insulin in order to process and use it, thus increasing insulin resistance?
Long post. Sorry. Hope it makes sense?
The articles I’ve read about prediabetes and type 2 diabetes say that high blood sugars after meals are mostly due to the body becoming insulin resistant. Ie. producing more insulin in order to absorb the glucose floating around your blood, getting used to these higher levels, thus increasing insulin resistance and creating a sort of vicious cycle.
So what I’d like to know is, if one eats carbs fairly soon BEFORE exercising, will the very nature of the way that muscles use glucose for fuel take a good quantity of that glucose out of ones system before a larger than ideal insulin release occurs, or do you need to fuel yourself with less carbs and more protein to avoid as much total insulin being released?
The way I understand it is that insulin acts as a key to utilize glucose for energy, so basically I just want to know that one is not negating the blood sugar lowering benefit derived from exercise by flooding your system with excess insulin in order to process and use it, thus increasing insulin resistance?
Long post. Sorry. Hope it makes sense?
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