Paul Saladino has a fasting blood sugar of 74mg/dl, low glycemic variability, and clear insulin sensitivity while consuming a few tablespoons of honey daily.

“Were I insulin resistant from doing honey every day for two months, my standard deviation would be much higher.”

“You will see that I do not have continuous glucose monitoring evidence of any degree of insulin resistance from adding carbohydrates into my diet, even things like honey, which really do not cause insulin resistance. They just don't. And you can see that here.”

“This is my blood sugar looks like most days right now with my CGM. So, tada. Here it is. This is Carnivore MD's um blood sugars from I don't know what day this was. This is probably the Do you There it is. 512. So, we're recording this podcast on May the 22nd, I believe. These are my blood sugars from the 12th of May. This is all sleeping. I get up in the morning. My blood sugar when I'm waking up is probably somewhere in here. It's probably 81 or 83 or maybe in the low to high 70s. I usually do a little bit of work. And um and then I eat breakfast later in the morning. And you can see here's a spike. Now, most people would look at this and say, "Oh, you had a blood sugar spike. You shouldn't have eaten that honey." And you can see my breakfast is here. steak, liver, egg yolks, and honey. This is what Carnivore MD eats in a day, you guys. You can watch my what I eat in a day video if you want to see. But this is what we mean area under the curve. So, if you're watching this on YouTube, this will make sense. You can draw some sort of a imagined baseline here. And you integrate all of the area here, right? This is not a really big area under the curve. It goes up, it comes down quickly, it peaks at 133. And you can't quite see, I can't trace on the computer here. This is about an hour that I'm back to baseline of under 80 milligrams or right about 80 milligrams per deciliter within one hour of eating. This has got to be more than 70 grams of carbohydrates from raw organic honey. This is a lot of carbohydrates. That's a lot. Yeah. Yeah. And this is a peak, right? So this may look like uh an excursion. This may look like a bad thing, but in a moment we will show you guys what a disordered glucose curve looks and you'll see the difference. Looks like and you'll see the difference.”

“the CGM readings that I've had are pretty fascinating the blood sugars are really stable I'll get a little spike once or twice a day when I eat honey with my meals and I'll usually get about a hundred grams of carbs a day or now maybe 120 I don't follow it that closely and I'll get small spikes in blood sugar when I eat that but generally the blood sugar is between I would say 70 and 90 all day with a few spikes for the honey when I eat it and that's it and the spikes the spikes generally only go up to 120 or 130 milligrams per deciliter so they don't even go that high and they come back very quickly again”

“Nutrisense I owe you guys know them these are the folks I did my CGM with I appreciate them so much I learned so much from the CGM it showed me that when I eat a reasonable not a huge amount of fructose in my diet in the form of honey or fruit I did not get insulin resistant imagine that you can see that in my glycemic variability my baselines”

“my own experiment here you guys have all seen this you've seen my data from the cgm if you haven't seen this that podcast is also available at the hard soil website but i want to show you what my blood sugar looks like when i'm eating honey and prove to you that after four to five months of doing this basically most days in moderate amounts 100 to 120 grams of carbohydrates per day and honey i am not insulin resistant so again this graphic is from the cgm podcast i did this is my continuous glucose monitor that i wore from nutrisense this is my blood sugar look at the baseline starts around here around 70. 80 is about the baseline i eat some honey here it goes up to 132 and it comes right back down within an hour it stays right there then it gets up a little later in the afternoon at dinner and then it comes back down you can see furthermore that if you look at the analytics from the continuous glucose monitor the standard deviation and all of these other metrics are very good”

“this is my blood sugar from may this is honey twice a day you can see my blood sugar goes up to about 132 in the morning and then about 124 in the morning it comes right back down within about an hour to baseline my baseline is very low my hemoglobin a1c is between 4.6 and 4.8 and my average blood sugar is probably about 80 to 85 in a day based on this cgm and this is after doing carbohydrates for a number of months i'm clearly not insulin resistant at all”

“to that i would add something like a cgm i would add a continuous glucose monitor from a company like nutrasense.io i did a whole podcast on my continuous blood glucose monitor testing in the past you can look at that that was when i had done a few months of experimentation with carbohydrates you can see that despite eating honey twice a day i did not develop insulin resistance with uh according to my cgm nor according to my labs my fasting insulate insulin stayed very very low”

“i've worn continuous glucose monitors to show that my glucose response stays very quote unquote insulin sensitive the area under the curve remains very low”

“so my CRP is6 you can see here my hemoglobin A1c is 5.3 that's about where it usually is this is an average over 90 days in my blood sugar you can see my average blood sugar all the spikes in the day is 11.4 G per deciliter and again my hemoglobin A1c is 5.4 in the past when I've seen people in the ketogenic and low carb spaces share their blood sugars and their hemoglobin A1c the hemoglobin A1c is often higher than mine because their Baseline is so much higher than mine even with blood sugar quote spikes throughout the day my average blood sugar is 111 and I get a hemoglobin A1c of 5.3 which is totally within the safe and healthy range despite eating 300 plus grams of carbohydrates from fruit and honey”