Soya & blood sugar

[bkit]

Hello everyone,
Didn't think this would end up being the first question I asked here but here we are.
Has anyone had blood sugar drops related to soya and fibre ritch foods?
My assumption is that it's related to carbohydrate absorption slowing way down.

Over the last week I've had some significant drops, 5+ points in 20mins, both accompanied by activity and also while still.
I know fibre can slow absorption, but not to this degree surely. Also it's not something I've ever seen following a bowl of bran flakes before.

Tonight it happened again, an hour after my evening meal, again fairly high in fibre, I dropped (more steadily) from 10.2 to 4.6 and then afterwards, an hour or so later, up I went to 14.

It's just now started dropping again (when trying to go to bed, like it knows lol)

It wasn't until just now that I figured it might actually be the soya milk, that we introduced into our diets a few weeks back, that is the catalyst.

So has anyone else found soya milk or products to cause anything like this?

 

[Proud to be erratic]

@bkit, your expertise exceeds mine by some 25+ years. But could this be a combination of the recent hot weather and extra fibre rather than a particular influence of the soya milk? I don't have enough summers behind me to be sure I have a usable pattern to learn lessons from .... but I'm certainly finding even mild exercise/activity seems to have set me up for unexpected lows these last few days. We are eating high fibre salads daily rather than hot dinners and I'd assumed this was slowing my digestion or altering my metabolism generally; I've not thought to change any bolus timings (until now).

Just a thought?

 

[bkit]

@bkit, your expertise exceeds mine by some 25+ years. But could this be a combination of the recent hot weather and extra fibre rather than a particular influence of the soya milk? I don't have enough summers behind me to be sure I have a usable pattern to learn lessons from .... but I'm certainly finding even mild exercise/activity seems to have set me up for unexpected lows these last few days. We are eating high fibre salads daily rather than hot dinners and I'd assumed this was slowing my digestion or altering my metabolism generally; I've not thought to change any bolus timings (until now).

Just a thought?

Anything (as they say) is possible, however it's not something I've really ran into before (current circumstances, i.e. the Omnipod which is relatively new also in mind) and honestly it hasn't really been all that warm here, mostly rainy lol I think our highest was 20°c and even then I was mostly spared from it, indoors etc.

 

[Eddy Edson]

Hello everyone,
Didn't think this would end up being the first question I asked here but here we are.
Has anyone had blood sugar drops related to soya and fibre ritch foods?
My assumption is that it's related to carbohydrate absorption slowing way down.

Over the last week I've had some significant drops, 5+ points in 20mins, both accompanied by activity and also while still.
I know fibre can slow absorption, but not to this degree surely. Also it's not something I've ever seen following a bowl of bran flakes before.

Tonight it happened again, an hour after my evening meal, again fairly high in fibre, I dropped (more steadily) from 10.2 to 4.6 and then afterwards, an hour or so later, up I went to 14.

It's just now started dropping again (when trying to go to bed, like it knows lol)

It wasn't until just now that I figured it might actually be the soya milk, that we introduced into our diets a few weeks back, that is the catalyst.

So has anyone else found soya milk or products to cause anything like this?

I drink lots of soy milk & I've never noticed it doing anything very strange to my BG.

But maybe what you're seeing is protein => BG metabolism kicking in after a while. It's not just carbs: fats and protein get converted into BG eventually, it just takes longer.