The Results of My Blood Sugar Experiment

I don't no how you felt with 68, 50-55 is just fine for ne being on keto.

Am I the only one who finds this a little concerning? A lot of those post-meal readings were not good, especially for a young person who should be eating the most insulin sensitive diet there is.. Studies show that those who are the least likely to develop diabetes in the future never exceed 120 mg/dl after a meal. A 204 after five bananas is basically an OGTT failure. It's easy to point out that populations relying primarily on carbohydrates do not frequently develop diabetes, but they're also usually in a slight calorie deficit. Chronic glucose spikes are not good for the beta cells. I'm curious what kind of readings those people from the Blue Zones would get.

Insulin spikophobia is funny. Blood sugar and insulin going up after a meal and coming back down is how the body is designed to work. If your diet is calorically roughly at maintenance and adequately nutritious, it is very difficult to eat in a manner such that glucose spikes are sharp and frequent enough to worsen innate genetic risks of any ailments.

Can you do it on your belly, thighs etc?

I am diabetic and always testing the only things that have helped me is eating pure veggies I really dont like veggies but getting better at eatting them because I don't want to go on insulin.

Very interesting! Also, I've recently learned that a night of bad sleep can make your body "insulin resistant" all the next day. And stress can spike blood glucose even without eating anything at all. Crazy!

hurts like hell….prime your finger first 🙂

Are you diabetic or pre? Is it considered normal for non diabetics to spike that high?

Dude. Unless they’re starchy and bright green, bananas are like eating pure table sugar. In a real diabetic, one ripe banana can can spike and crash you. It’s like OJ. If you’re crashing, they bring up your glucose levels fast

Now I'm super curious about bananas and their effect on blood sugar. Relative ripeness probably plays a role, and going from a point where it's green and just barely edible raw to a point where it's brown and black and mushy like a date is probably going to have a substantial difference in blood sugar response. But the cultivar might also play a role; ordinary Cavendish bananas were bred to be mild-tasting and sweet, and other cultivars probably have different effects. I have read that Red Dacca bananas have a very low glycemic load, so I'd be curious to see how they stack up.

On what planet did you think bananas were low GI 🤣 VERY green perhaps (resistant starch) but yours had brown spots.

great video… I went raw vegan 30 days ago and all blood is in the normal range—glucose less than 110 and fasting blood glucose have stopped spiking after eating!

I wish I had readings like that. My readings are in the 200's All the time. It got depressing and I stopped testing over a year ago.

"Only 5 bananas"…. That's such a crazy sentence to me :-). A small bowl of oatmeal with 1 banana spiked my blood sugar to 198, and that was only what I was able to measure in intervals. Maybe the spike was even higher. And I am not diabetic, pre-diabetic or have insulin resistance.

Blueberries slows down the braking down sugars, same effect as from drinking vinegar before meal. So next time you can try to eat the same without blueberries.
I have tested this in this same way you just did.

Thank you so so much for this video! I have gdm and was looking for a healthy person's bs profile after carby/veggie meals (I am not vegan, but struggle to digest animal products), since I have no clue how my levels were pre-pregnancy.

Are you diabetic

Not a Vegan, but I highly respect your fasting protocol.

Get yourself a continuous glucose monitor (e.g. freestyle libre 3) and then you don't have to do painful blood draws. You can monitor your glucose for up to 14 days per sensor.

LOL man I eat a beef fondue & drank red wine. Immediately my blood sugar was 6.5 mmol/L & I got scared.