Paul Saladino· MD
during states of low carbohydrate consumption of a diet the body does something that is natural called physiologic insulin resistance at the level of the muscle or glucose sparing is probably a better word and so what's happening there and there are studies which show that even one low-carb meal at night can do this and so pregnant women who are doing a glucose tolerance test or a glue cola the next day should not be doing a low carb meal or they can do a low carb meal if they want to but if you do if a pregnant woman does a low carb meal the night before a glucose tolerance test they can look insulin resistant the next day because that test is sort of flawed right and what's going on there is that when we increase the amount of fat in our diet and when we decrease the amount of carbohydrates there are different signals from the adipose tissue because of declining levels of insulin right? what we know is that if we don't eat carbohydrates if we eat a high if we eat a high fat low carb diet with a moderate amount of protein insulin signal drops