shadowsmythe
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I'm just wondering how do you determine your insulin sensitivity?
Insulin sensitivity
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You take a glucose tolerance test.
1) Get yourself a blood glucose (BG) monitor
2) Take you BG reading after a 12 hour fast.
3) Drink 100 grams of glucose (must be glucose)
4) Take blood glucose readings every 30 minutes for the next 2 hours.
1) Get yourself a blood glucose (BG) monitor
2) Take you BG reading after a 12 hour fast.
3) Drink 100 grams of glucose (must be glucose)
4) Take blood glucose readings every 30 minutes for the next 2 hours.
Tom Treutlein
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How does the BG monitor work? Do you have to draw blood?
What would one with high sensitivity to insulin do in terms of dieting? Moderate? Low?
What would one with high sensitivity to insulin do in terms of dieting? Moderate? Low?
A bloog glucose monitor is what diabetics use to check their blood sugar. Its a little handheld computer. You prick your finger, put a drop of blood on the strip, then insert the strip into the monitor. It gives you a reading in a few seconds.[b said:
Well, if you have high insulin sensitivty you wouldn't really do anything different than anybody else. Everything should just go a lot easier if you have good insulin sensitivity.
If your talking about carbs, you can user higher carbs if you do a lot of cardio. If not, you must lower the carbs. Either way, if you are getting ready for a show or just want to get below 8% bodyfat, you are going to have to do cardio.
Tom Treutlein
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So Bryan, basically, eat for activity? If it's an off-day (no weights and no cardio) then you should probably eat more fats and proteins rather than carbs, correct?
A glucose tolerance test will provide some idea of how good the insulin sensitivity is, but a insulin clamp (or similar - there is about 4 methods that are commonly used, btu I cant find my article at hte moment) is the only way to accurately assess insulin sensitivity[b said: