Why was your blood sugar so high?
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Did you fast before this test?I don't know, sometimes my labs come back with high glucose, sometimes not, seems like it's about 50/50. Should I be worried about this?
Did you fast before this test?
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116 is really high for a fasted blood sugar, like almost diabetic highI think so, but not entirely sure. I've always been more concerned with the hormone levels and haven't really been strict about the fasting. If I did eat anything it was minimal, or a preworkout
116 is really high for a fasted blood sugar, like almost diabetic high
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I fasted for 13 hours and my glucose came in at 103 but this last time after I began drinking 16 tall glasses of water per day, (at least a gallon daily) it knocked my glucose level down to 70. A guy at work who is a diabetic saw me drinking so much water every day and told me that doing that will bring the glucose levels down, so I guess he knew what he was talking about
In my case, it definitely isn't that my caloric intake is anything less due to the increased water intake, because I'm eating like a horse right now in an attempt to take full advantage of the Trestolone I'm using which is twice the price of most other gear. Either way, this is interesting stuff, (the benefits of increased water intake I mean). My original motivation was keeping the kidneys healthy during a gear cycle, ( especially with my history of kidney stones) but the added benefits of bringing my slightly high glucose levels well into the normal range is niceI wonder if it's the water doing that directly via dilution / hyponatremia, or if it's a displacement effect of nutrients in the gut in a more spaced out and longer-digesting manner... or a displacement effect on appetite in the obvious way of just making it harder to pack in multiple cheeseburgers with a stomach already pre-filled with water.
Really excellent article in SciAm just lately about the effects of gastric bypass operations over the decades having astonishing curative powers on diabetes type 2 via multiple surprising mechanisms. Less absorption by lengths of the gut just beyond the stomach (duodenum and immediately after, where bile acids from the liver and pancreas are especially active at their release points) has a bunch of glucose management benefits and diabetes attenuation long before the patient even starts losing significant weight -- the previous and over-simplistic explanation for all the upsides.
Very cool stuff. Our anatomy is meticulously designed to get maximum sustenance from whatever we can scrounge from a world of scarcity, death (for something else), or starvation. Our current unnatural diet of 10,000-calorie hamburgers and beer by the pitcher is a rude departure for that high efficiency digestive system.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/...tics-now-recommend-surgery-instead-of-drugs/#
Meh, turns out the real article I want "Operation: Diabetes" is in the current July issue and therefore unsharable till later:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/magazine/sa/2017/07-01/