Comments by "roidroid" (@roidroid) on "How do carbohydrates impact your health? - Richard J. Wood" video.
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AFAIK The amount of sugar in your blood would be more like 2-3 teaspoons, as this would be literally the amount of sucrose required to raise your blood sugar by 4-6 mmol/DL (which would be the normal range for your Blood Sugar Levels). If you only had 1 teaspoon of sugar in your blood, your BSLs (Blood Sugar Levels) would be around 2mmol/DL, you wouldn't feel very well as you'd be hypoglycemic.
2:55 It should be noted that your body actually does convert a significant amount of the protein you eat into glucose, something not mentioned in the video (but hey it's only 5 mins long). Eating cheese, meat and eggs does raise your BSL. From personal experience, i'd say the effect is about 1/3 or 1/2 that of eating the equivalent weight of complex carbohydrate.
Insulin sensitivity is something important even for type-1 diabetics, because if your sensitivity is high then you can take less insulin. I typically exercise at least once a week to keep my sensitivity up, and if i skip a few weeks i can tell because i have to raise the amount of insulin i give myself. If i then exercise again, my sensitivity goes up again immediately, literally WITHIN MINUTES, it's like flicking a light switch. Exercise: highly recommended, for everyone, diabetic or not (everyone has insulin).
Don't even think of it as burning calories, you're doing it to bump your insulin sensitivity up, and improve your mental state.
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