Paul Saladino· MD
my fasting blood sugar ready for this went down when i introduced carbohydrates so my fasting blood sugar goes down when i introduce carbohydrates because as a physiologically insulin resistant human my blood sugar was kind of flatlined but it was higher the baseline was higher all day because of gluconeogenesis and the physiology so for instance i would say that when i was strict carnivore my fasting blood sugar was probably 95 sometimes 103 milligrams per deciliter fasting so you wake up in the morning your blood sugar is 103 or 96. you eat food your blood sugar is 96 103 right introduce carbohydrates fasting blood sugar 72 73 68 these kind of things and then when you eat food i'm eating carbohydrates i would probably i usually like twice a day my blood sugar might go up to 130 140 i don't worry about that because then it comes down quickly this is difficult to illustrate without a visual but imagine kind of a flat line and then a little spike and the spike comes back down to normal within an hour so when you're looking at a continuous glucose monitor what you want to look at is the area under the curve because it's a reflection of how much insulin load there is needed to move that sugar out of your blood