The body strives to regulate your blood glucose in a narrow zone. It only needs about a teaspoon of sugar in your entire circulation. Here is what an ‘ideal day’ looks like:
A smooth line, staying in the narrow zone, means the body is regulating your energy well. That means you are setting your body up to burn stored fat.
Most people’s diets create a day that looks more like this, with many large spikes and crashes:
This is due to our modern diet of energy-dense carbohydrates and pure sugars.
Every food choice you make impacts your blood glucose in some way. Carbohydrates have the effect of raising glucose.
Carbohydrates and sugars are very rapidly absorbed, unlike proteins and fats, that take longer to break down and use.
Continuous spikes over time eventually lead you to put on weight: stored fat. Eventually, this can lead to type 2 diabetes.
With each blood glucose spike, your body senses a stress and responds using insulin. This takes glucose out of your circulating blood to reduce the spike. Prolonged demand on this system leads to disfunction – you wear it out.
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