Re: low carb diet and insulin spike

Thanks for your response TC, I am actually following a cyclical keto 
diet, Dr. Mauro DiPasquale or Lyle McDonald style. It seem to be working 
quite well for me, keeping me lean and making muscle gains the same 
time. For further info please check out Lyle's article:
http://www.thinkmuscle.com/articles/mcdonald/carb-up-and-ketogenic-diet.htm

Cheers,
  Zsolt

tcomeau wrote:

> Zsolt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
> > I was just wondering if I can get some opinions on this topic. I have 
> > been on a low carb diet during the week, and switch to high carbs on the 
> > weekend. One time I severely overdid my carbing up and I had a pretty 
> > bad case of jittering from the resulting insulin spike.
> >
> > There are a number of studies/books on this "metabolic type" diet but I 
> > haven't seen any references to bad insulin reactions. Dr. Di Pasquale ( 
> > http://www.metabolicdiet.com/index.htm )even recommends a combination of 
> > high and low GI carbs to load.
> >
> > Nevertheless, it did get me worried a bit. Can I trigger diabetes with 
> > this? Any opinions?
> >
> > TIA,
> >   Zsolt
>
>
> Why on earth would you eat low-carb during the week and then go
> high-carb on the weekend? Make up your mind. Do you want to be healthy
> or not? If you want to be healthy and thin go low-carb, if you want to
> be sick and fat go high-carb.
>
> The jittering was probably the result of the sugar rush (blood
> glucose) and not necessarily the insulin.
>
> The metabolic type concept is nonsense. The vast majority 98% of
> people metabolize the macro-nutrients in exactly the same ways
> bio-chemically speaking.
>
> Can you trigger diabetes with this kind of eating? Let's just say that
> these regular weekly insulin spikes aren't doing your body any good.
> The weekend carb binges is doing some damage to your system. It is
> exposing your entire system to high levels of blood glucose which is
> known to kill the insulin receptors. It is also causing your pancreas
> to excrete unusually massive amounts of insulin. Eventually your
> pancreas will burn out and not be able to create any more insulin.
> Thus it will lead to diabetes eventually.
>
> You must feel like crap for the entire weekend and for a few days
> after the weekend as your body tries to re-adjust itself to the carb
> binge. That alone should be enough incentive to smarten up and go
> low-carb full-time.
>
> TC