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Why is a glucose spike bad for non diabetics

xeromal 4y ago
I'm not a doctor, but I believe the best way to treat your body is not to have big swings in values in glucose. If your glucose is 70 and you spike it up to 150 every day, I believe it's just a lot of stress on your body's endocrine system. Someone can definitely chime in and correct me though.
- meindnoch 4y ago
  Having big swings in your heart rate daily is healthy.
- qbrass 4y ago
  You not only get the downside of high glucose levels from the spike, but you get the downside of the insulin your body produced in response (or you injected because you're diabetic) kicking in as the spike falls on it's own, making it crash even further.
- mizzack 4y ago
  Spiking and recovering is probably better than consistently elevated for insulin sensitivity reasons.
thefz 4y ago
Glucose spike -> oh shit blood is full of sugar, pump out insulin -> blood is suddenly not full of sugar anymore -> feel like shit, want to eat again -> glucose spike...
- kevviiinn 4y ago
  That doesn't explain why it's bad
  - thefz 4y ago
    Insulin will seize sugar from your blood to store it your cell reserves. You are basically forcing yourself to store fat, and require more sugar, instead of using what you have. https://iubmb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bmb.21031 https://iubmb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bmb.2...
    - kevviiinn 4y ago
      You're just explaining a normal metabolic process, not explaining why it's bad and insulin doesn't necessarily make you crave anything Insulin gets released after every meal
      - thefz 4y ago
        You are just playing dumb, are you. :) If you want to know why it's bad, eat a bunch of sweets and tell me how do you feel after!
        kevviiinn 4y ago
        No, I'm a biochemist. I need to know the mechanism. The mechanism is important for understanding why and how something happens in a biological system, sorry I just don't take people's word at face value You could have said something like "eating foods that continuously spike glucose could possibly cause an eventual desensitization to insulin by causing down regulation of insulin receptors" But you don't get to type 2 diabetes by eating potatoes Potatoes are not sweets.

I'm not a doctor, but I believe the best way to treat your body is not to have big swings in values in glucose. If your glucose is 70 and you spike it up to 150 every day, I believe it's just a lot of stress on your body's endocrine system. Someone can definitely chime in and correct me though.

meindnoch 4y ago
Having big swings in your heart rate daily is healthy.
qbrass 4y ago
You not only get the downside of high glucose levels from the spike, but you get the downside of the insulin your body produced in response (or you injected because you're diabetic) kicking in as the spike falls on it's own, making it crash even further.
mizzack 4y ago
Spiking and recovering is probably better than consistently elevated for insulin sensitivity reasons.

thefz 4y ago

Glucose spike -> oh shit blood is full of sugar, pump out insulin -> blood is suddenly not full of sugar anymore -> feel like shit, want to eat again -> glucose spike...

kevviiinn 4y ago
That doesn't explain why it's bad
- thefz 4y ago
  Insulin will seize sugar from your blood to store it your cell reserves. You are basically forcing yourself to store fat, and require more sugar, instead of using what you have. https://iubmb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bmb.21031 https://iubmb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bmb.2...
  - kevviiinn 4y ago
    You're just explaining a normal metabolic process, not explaining why it's bad and insulin doesn't necessarily make you crave anything Insulin gets released after every meal
    - thefz 4y ago
      You are just playing dumb, are you. :) If you want to know why it's bad, eat a bunch of sweets and tell me how do you feel after!
      - kevviiinn 4y ago
        No, I'm a biochemist. I need to know the mechanism. The mechanism is important for understanding why and how something happens in a biological system, sorry I just don't take people's word at face value You could have said something like "eating foods that continuously spike glucose could possibly cause an eventual desensitization to insulin by causing down regulation of insulin receptors" But you don't get to type 2 diabetes by eating potatoes Potatoes are not sweets.