Sentences with phrase «smaller insulin load»

There will always be errors in calculations in matching insulin to food, so a smaller insulin load enables you to reduce the errors in insulin dosing.

Not exact matches

To bring things back to Metabolic Flexibility, if you are metabolically inflexible AKA you can not run on fat very well in a fasted state (weight loss resistant) and you can not dispose of a dump truck load of bagels without going into a coma on the couch (insulin resistant), you have a very small window of fat and glucose that you can function in without symptoms — a la small frequent meals.

Rather, in the face of a diet such as the TWT diet, which carries a very small glycemic load, the body's production of glycogen through protein metabolism has a negligible impact on blood sugar (and essentially no adverse impact in insulin response).

For someone on a low carb diet with a lower insulin load, the majority of their insulin demand will be for basal insulin, with only a small amount required to cover food.