First time poster here, following FAST exercise etc. Recently purchased a glucose monitor to test fitness levels, health is OK, I am overweight (need to lose about 8 kg), VO2 max is very good for my age, my fasting blood glucose is 4.8 mmol which puts me in the normal range. To further investigate insulin sensitivity, I did the oral glucose tolerance test, which surprised me, ie the 75 g of glucose dissolved in 300ml of water. Fasted as per instructions, followed the test as per instructions. After 1 hr the reading was 11.9 mmol. After 2 hours the reading was 3.7 mmol. Quite a spike then fall. I intend to follow all guidelines for combating this. Anyone else had similar experiences?
As an aside, something else I have noticed as well, following strenous exercise, at some point later, I tend to get very fatigued..just wondering if this is somehow related to reactive hypoglycemia? In general, I lead an active lifestyle, my job is quite active, I am not sedentary (though until relatively recently I was deskbound), I also appear not to have any underlying health conditions…Feel free to chime in with any experiences or the like…
Cheers
1:26 am
28 Aug 14