BLOOD SUGAR BALANCE
What is blood sugar anyway??
Basically it’s how your liver and pancreas break down glucose for energy. You can be low or high blood sugar, both are undesirable.
High Blood Sugar
With high blood sugar, you have too much glucose in your blood and either not enough insulin or enough insulin but your body is basically immune to it because it happens so often. Eventually this turns in to Metabolic syndrome and then eventually Type II Diabetes. This is caused by eating too much sugar or too much refined carbohydrates.
Low Blood Sugar
Low blood sugar is also called hypoglycemia. Hypoglycemia is a condition in which a person is suffering from significantly low blood glucose or blood sugar levels. Typically, when you eat food, your body readily breaks down carbohydrates into different types of sugar molecules. One of these is glucose. Your body needs glucose to survey, but it also needs insulin to help get it in to the cells. If you have not eaten for hours and your blood sugar drops, the glucagon hormone from the pancreas signals your liver to break down the glycogen and release glucose into your bloodstream.
Your liver and pancreas keep you alive!
If your liver has to work this hard, it will call on the adrenal glands for help in the form of cortisol. You don’t want to recruit too much from your adrenal glands because they will wear out and then you will be very very tired, for a long time (adrenal fatigue)!
It’s not as simple as making sure you eat all of the time because that may be too much food and too eating too often does not allow your body/digestive system the rest it needs.
This is all related to longevity because the less stable your blood sugar is the more it wears down your body at a cellular level.
What to do for proper blood sugar levels?
1) Stop eating sugar
At least try to eat mostly stevia, xylitol (good for teeth health as well), monk fruit & erythritol
2) Eat fat with every meal
Fat is for long burning energy and it will carry you longer with more stable blood sugar levels. Bacon will power you better than a bar.
3) Get proper sleep
When you get poor sleep, your hunger/satiety hormones are thrown off and you crave more food of the wrong type
4) When eating- slow down, sit down, deep breathe and chew well.
5) Keep your liver happy by cleansing and eating enough fiber.
Further Reading HERE