Andrew Huberman· PhD
understanding that outside of activity 50 gam or less of carbohydrates would be a threshold to mitigate substantial insulin response
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understanding that outside of activity 50 gam or less of carbohydrates would be a threshold to mitigate substantial insulin response
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the way in which I think about glucose disposal if an individual is sedentary is thinking about how many carbohydrates an individual can ingest at one time that would mitigate uh insulin response and would be able to be disposed of safely and that number is between 40 and 50 grams of carbohydrates at a meal
The carbohydrate threshold, if you calculate the disposal from skeletal, muscle, organ systems, it is not much. It is about 40 gram in a 2-hour period. Anything above say 40 or 50 grams in a nonex exercising adult will result in a robust insulin response.