[fast5] What seems like low blood sugar may be in fact high cortisol

Oh good about the high cortisol. All that did not surprise me really but was very informative. I’m at a normal weight.(so my body would have stored energy I’m sure)
What you wrote made me really good sense to me though for way back when when I used to be really really skinny and I also thought back to a time recently when I was thinner than I am now (and in some ways maybe just as skinny as when I was younger)

My body has gone through periods of being better at regulating this stuff and then not. I think there are several factors that influence this. I’ve also noticed that the body’s ability to regulate seems to change when other hormone levels are different in the body, like say right before the period starts, during ovulation, etc.

Chantelle


On 11/12/10 12:56 AM, "Heather Twist" <HeatherTwist@gmail.com> wrote:

 
 
   

The issue in cases like this, in my experience, isn't so much that there "is no glucose" as that "the body doesn't want to release glycogen". Your body HAS stored energy, unless you are really, really skinny. But, it might not be very good at getting the energy OUT. 

Usually, the way the body releases stored energy is to release a bunch of cortisol. Which works: it raises the blood sugar. But, if too much cortisol is released, it also makes you grouchy and headachy and gives the symptoms of "low blood sugar".

I learned this because I got a glucometer, to test how "low" my blood sugar really went. Turns out, when I had "low blood sugar" episodes, my blood sugar was actually HIGH. What I was having was "high cortisol" episodes. 

It's fairly easy though, to fight high cortisol. It responds to rather odd triggers ... like, eating a bite of lettuce. Or lemon juice. Or exercise. Sauerkraut is one of those things that works: it has acid in it. Dunno why acid works, but it seems to.

Anyway, if you stick with it, your body gets better at regulating cortisol, so you can deal with the random times you just can't get away to eat. In my experience, Fast-5 is one of THE BEST ways to train your body to do that. In the meantime: lemon juice tea works rather well, and it's totally ok calorie-wise.

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