Peter Attia· MD
the problem is you can't just throw in a bunch of insulin and then normalize glucose because you will cause somebody to go low and with type 1 diabetes the crux of the problem is the volatility in blood glucose so it's not just so simple that you can figure out the amount of carbohydrates you're gonna eat and take some insulin and your blood sugar is gonna be normal because even if you eat the exact same thing every single day as anyone knows who has type 1 diabetes and I only know this because of friends who have it your level of stress how much sleep you had last night how much exercise you've done or not done Frank can even in the presence of the identical foodstuff produce completely different insulin requirements and the other things in food like fat and protein also alter gastric emptying and the end result is a tremendous amount of slop in variants in the system