Waking Up with Sky-High Glucose? Too Much insulin or too little?
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Greetings from Ethiopia. That was really very helpful. Thank you, Dennis.
Maybe this maybe that…
Get a C peptide test!
Test your insulin level!
Extra glucose in the morning, get out of bed and use it up.
Thanks Again Dennis!
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Morning Dennis. Best channel out on YouTube for type 2!
In the morning, your liver makes glucose under the action of glucagon. This is moderated by insulin. Insulin and glucagon are made in adjacent places in the pancreas to facilitate this control. It is very unusual to be making too much glucagon, or too little. It is odd there seems to be no disorder where the liver does not make glucose. The problem with too much glucose is almost always with insulin resistance, mainly in the liver as Dennis explains. Most people can rid thier liver of fat and solve the morning glucose problem by going low carb. I find I have to also eat less fat, especially dairy, to control morning glucose. Yes, you can eat too much fat and overwhelm the liver.
Unless you are a Type 1
Dennis, Thank you so much for this reminder. I am struggling with morning glucose and I must remember not to be discouraged, keep putting one foot in front of the other, and do the next right thing! God Bless you as always for what you do!
What dou you consider high?
@babytigtig3795 I am waking up in the 130-150 range some mornings. I’ve been eating low carb for three years now. I am having days when it is lower than that as well. We just have to keep eating low carb and trust the process. It WILL happen!
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Thank you for your work me and my wife appreciate you! My wife doesn’t listen to you I do but she try to eat less and less carbs
Morning Dennis. As usual very informative session. Thank you for sharing
I am taking insuline … how can u d prescribed….no one is helping me… in type two…even 0 carb with fasting… but u never gide …ur r not a doctor i can understand… but i still do not find a doctor …who can gide… u pl .ask ur god to help me.
What do you consider high glucose in the morning?
It is not just that the liver, pancreas and other body organs & cells are full of fat… it is often metabolic syndrome caused by the wrong type of fats. Oxidized fats and transfats are hard for your body’s enzymes to process, and tend to get shoved into the cell membranes… these fats are “stiffer” (are not nicely floppy and bendy like normal fat molecules) than normal fats and interfere with the cell membrane transport system… causing metabolic syndrome. And only long periods of autophagy (fasting, time restricted eating 18-fast and 6-food, etc) will force your body to start scavenging these “bad” fats and breaking them down. If your body has other, easier to digest food sources, it will preferentially digest them.
And yes, the food manufacturers STILL use transfats… by law they just have to make sure that on average there is less than 1.0 grams of transfat per recommended “serving” size — if there is 0.9 grams of transfat per “serving”, their label can legally show ZERO grams of transfat… and they base their serving size on how concentrated is transfat in it… so a product with a high concentration of transfat in the recipe will have much smaller serving sizes than one with a low concentration of transfat.