Thread: diabetic bb info?

im pretty sure im hypoglycemic, waiting on test results to be named a "diabetic". my whole mothers side had it and they were fat
after legs today, i ate @the gym while i waited ona ride, during meal and after i wanted to doze off. last week i ate in the waiting room @the drs office, i was laying down on the table during the apt. he tested my blood sugar and it was 63? its spose2be like 75+ or something
how am i ever gonna compete?

Originally posted by CourtQueen
I thought that hypoglycemic and diabetic were two completely different things?!?!

It's the opposite side of the same coin, so to speak. Stastically, those who are prone to hypoglycemia have a higher chance of developing diabetes at some future date.

Low blood sugar or high blood sugar both imply an impairement in insulin secretion or usage.

In hypoglycemia, the problem is overshooting of insulin (as secreted by the pancreas or underuitlization by peripheral tissues) so that once the foods or substrate is digested, there is more insulin still lingering around and thus the blood sugar plummets. As Dr. Chiro stated, that's why BB diets,( relatively higher in meats etc.) induce less hypoglycemia since less insulin is needed to initially process such low glycemic substrates.

In type II diabetes, ( or insulin resistance) physiology trials show that many times the earliest impairment (long before blood sugars show up as high) is the oversecretion of insulin (delayed insulin response and greater amount secreted) after ingestion of food.


Thus, the propensity for hypoglycemia may imply that diabetes is around the corner, so to speak, and so seeing a doctor is a must as well as avoiding the things that will push peopleover into developing type II diabetes, weight gain, lack of excerciseetc. should be avoided.

We are still sorting out if this happens with Tyupe 1.5 diabetes ( a slow acting autoimmune destruction of the pancreas).. It doesn't happen with type I, which is quick, viral desimation of the pancreas and there is absolutely no insulin production whatsoever.