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Caffeine & Hypoglycemia

If you cannot make it through the day without having a shot or two of caffeine, your unexplained hypoglycemia may be caused by a condition called adrenal fatigue. You may be experiencing hypoglycemia symptoms and not know why. You know you always eat when you are supposed to and do not overindulge in sweets. Still, hypoglycemia is becoming quite the problem in your life.

Investigate the possibility that you may be suffering from adrenal fatigue. Discovering that you have this disorder may be the ticket to learning how to live a stress-free life. Living a stress-free life is important for you to be able to function on a daily basis to the best of your ability. Every aspect of your life is affected when you are stressed.

Stress is one of those things that creep up on you slowly. Then all of a sudden it has gotten a hold of you and you find yourself in trouble.

You need to determine what the major source of your stress is. Are you getting the correct amount of sleep at night? Do you eat right? Are you exercising at least 30 minutes every day? Is your day full of negative emotions and anxiety? If you have answered yes to any of these questions then you probably need to fortify yourself by drinking caffeine several times a day.

If you cannot think clearly unless you have caffeine, hypoglycemia may be the real culprit. Instead of drinking a caffeinated beverage, try eating a healthy snack of raw veggies or a piece of fruit and maybe some yogurt in the middle of your day for a nice pick-me-up.

Hypoglycemia is often a result of adrenal fatigue because the adrenal gland does not produce the correct levels of epinephrine, norepinephrine, and cortisol to aid the body in the battle against stress. This happens because the caffeine revs up the adrenal glands until they just give up. And because these hormones are now not at the correct levels in the body, you may find you crave sugar and sweets and even crave caffeine.

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Do you eat fast or slow? If you just absolutely get so hungry you can hardly stand it and then when food is available you eat as if someone is going to take it away from you, you may be suffering from hypoglycemia. If you get real shaky and irritable before you eat also, you may be experiencing low blood sugar.

Pay attention to how you feel right after you eat and then an hour or two later. Does your energy crash and burn after a couple of hours? You may be short on cortisol. Not only does cortisol help you survive the stress in your life, it also helps prevent too much glucose from being absorbed by your blood cells. This is also how cortisol adds to belly fat, the glucose is not used by your blood cells and the insulin will store the excess sugar as fat and deposit that fat in your belly.

If you feel you have adrenal fatigue or have been diagnosed with it, you should get off caffeine, reset your hormones, start exercising, and cut out carbs as much as possible.

Diet For Hypoglycemia

A good diet for hypoglycemia is just the same as it would be if you want to lose some weight. Low carb, high protein. This is the best way to treat your hypoglycemia. If you make the changes you need to make in your diet then you may be able to improve or even eliminate your hypoglycemia.

If you cut the carbs then you should improve your situation dramatically. Eliminate or at least cut down on your intake of alcohol. Alcohol can greatly affect the frequency of hypoglycemic instances.

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Decrease the amount of sugar in your diet. Stop drinking pop. Pop has no place in a diet for hypoglycemia. Cut down your use of white sugar, also. But do not just blindly start drinking diet pop, either, diet pop is poison and the chemical used in diet pop will actually trick your body into staying fat.

Caffeine is another aspect of your diet that you should limit or even eliminate. Caffeine will actually help you feel full or at least less hungry and therefore you will not eat the way you should. Caffeine will also raise your blood sugar! Caffeine is never a substitute for a good meal.

These are the important changes that you should try to make and stick with when learning to deal with your diagnosis of hypoglycemia or even diabetes. Stay positive and don’t think of this as things you can no longer have. Think of this as an adventure in finding out all the new things you can have. When your blood sugars have stabilized then you can probably even reintroduce some of the old things you used to love, just in moderation from now on.

Having diabetes or hypoglycemia is not a death sentence unless you choose to not do what is necessary to control it. Then you could find yourself in trouble. Big trouble. Symptoms for mild to moderate hypoglycemia are nausea, chills, cool, clammy skin, sweating, hunger, heart palpitations, irritability, anxiousness, confusion, blurry vision, and dizziness. Severe hypoglycemia can lead to loss of consciousness, seizures, coma, and death if left untreated.

Following a good diet for hypoglycemia can help you lessen your risk for complications and even lessen your risk for becoming a full-blown diabetic. If you are or do become a full-blown diabetic then you will have other things you will need to concern yourself with. It is common for diabetics to have decreased blood flow to their extremities. When this happens it can lead to ulcers and other skin conditions. If serious enough the decreased blood flow could lead to tissue death and the need for amputation.

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Why I Chose the Carnivore Diet

By Jessica Gammett

What you choose to eat is as important as who you choose to be around. How your food makes you feel is the most important reason to eat food or stay away from it. Do you get sick to your stomach after eating a large plate of feticcini alfredo? Have you ever wondered if it was the cheese sauce or the pasta? Or do you feel generally tired and sluggish all the time? Do you suffer from brain fog or mental exhaustion? Maybe you just feel sick all the time and suffer from autoimmune diseases that you think are unavoidable?

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How do you find out? I had all kinds of issues with my stomach after eating as well as issues later in the day depending on what I ate. With high-carb foods like pasta, rice, or pie, I would have debilitating cramps in my legs to the point of having to stand up and force my legs and feet to stop cramping. I found that taking large amounts of magnesium and drinking lots of water helped after about an hour. But the lingering pain of the cramps made me wary of eating high-carb foods.

If I ate high-carb foods at night, not only did I have horrible cramps, but I could feel my racing heart rate. My heart rate would get up to 90 just laying there after eating a high-carb food. That was alarming, to say the least.

And of course, like many of you, I recognized that eating a high-carb diet was causing me to be quite overweight. At my heaviest, I was 225 pounds when my ideal range is between 135-155 pounds. I found that I personally cannot weigh less than 145 for comfort and aesthetics. I was just too skinny and didn’t feel good below 145. I am 5’7. Of course, your ideal weight will be different.

So, with all of that, I first started with a Keto diet, more specifically, the Atkins diet. I ate lots of salads, cheese and dairy, meats, low carb veggies, and pork rinds and nuts. I ate eggs and bacon for breakfast, salads for lunch, and big hunks of meat with butter and veggies slathered in cheese or butter for dinner. It was great. I was losing weight and had more energy than ever. So why did I change? I decided to try intermittent fasting.

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With intermittent fasting, the weight loss was increased, my brain fog was completely obliterated, and my relationship with food completely changed from one of a lifestyle of constantly thinking about and planning the next meal to one where food was just fuel. The only problem was when I would break my fast, I often felt ill. A friend of mine told me to start taking note of what I was eating when this happened. Since I was already fasting, it was quite easy to do an elimination type of fast-breaking. I would only eat one thing for the first hour or two and see how my body handled it.

Doing this, I found that almonds and nuts made me sick to my stomach. I was quite sad about this because I loved nuts. But while eating all kinds of foods, I had no idea that the nuts were one of the reasons I often felt ill after eating. I later found out pork made me sick to my stomach. That was also a serious blow because pork is cheap and tasty. I do not have a stomach issue with cured bacon or ham, just fresh pork and sausage-I’ll write another article about that some other time.

So, I began to eat only one food item coming off of a fast to see how each thing I ate made me feel. Chicken felt like cardboard, filling but not like it was actually giving me strength or sustenance. Beef felt amazing. I could actually feel it nourishing me as well as getting rid of my hunger. Fish was like chicken. It didn’t hurt my stomach; it just didn’t feel satisfying at all. It really did feel like I just put something in my stomach. Cheese and dairy products blew up in my stomach like a helium balloon. I never noticed how horrible dairy made me feel until I had it alone on an empty stomach!

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What I never did was break my fast with vegetables. It never occurred to me to do that because “everyone knows veggies are healthy”, right? So, I am not saying veggies are unhealthy, per se, but I am saying they should never get a pass in your life simply because they are veggies. Up to the point where I began seriously contemplating the carnivore diet, I had never considered veggies, except high carb veggies, to be anything other than necessary and healthy. I never thought to check to see if there were any papers or articles that showed definitively that veggies were healthy or necessary. I mean, seriously, everyone knows veggies are healthy and necessary, right? At least that is what we are told.

So, as I began my carnivore research (I seriously research everything!), I asked the questions we all would. “Where will I get my Vitamin C?” “How will I get all my vitamins and minerals?” “Where will I get my fiber?” “Won’t I get deficiencies like scurvy?” “Won’t I get constipation?” “Don’t I NEED the micronutrients in veggies?”

As it turns out, meat is far better at providing ALL of the nutrients we require. While some will tell you that broccoli contains more protein per calorie than steak and, per calorie, spinach is about equal to chicken and fish, what they don’t tell you is how MUCH broccoli you’d have to eat to get the same calories as a piece of steak! The average 8 ounce cut of beef is over 500 calories, almost 600. To equal that many calories from broccoli, you’d have to eat 25 CUPS of broccoli! So now how would you like to get your protein? 8 ounces of beef or 25 cups of broccoli? And what about the other nutrients?

Here is a sample of foods of a few foods and the various nutrients all based on 100 grams, which is much more of a normal size of veggies and fruits.

https://michaelkummer.com/health/plants-vs-meat/#0-nutrients-in-plants-vs-animals

The USDA does not measure Vitamin C in meat and so lists it as zero. It is not zero though. This chart also does not take into account the bioavailability of nutrients. It is not well known yet, but the nutrients in vegetables are NOT as easily absorbed or utilized by the body. Meat on the other hand does not have the same issues with a lack of bioavailability. The nutrients in meat are incredibly bioavailable to the body in the form needed for immediate absorption. And the lower Vitamin C levels that are present in meat are made up in a carnivore diet by understanding that without eating carbs or sugars of any kind, the body doesn’t even NEED 1,000s of milligrams of Vitamin C. I will write more articles about bioavailability and Vitamin C in meat later. They deserve their own discussions.

But I will leave you with a few interesting ideas. According to studies, those who eat more carbs need more Vitamin C than those on low-carb diets. One study even showed that blood levels of Vitamin C in low carb eaters were higher than those of high carb dieters. * https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21521539/

Another interesting tidbit is that sailors knew that eating fresh meat prevented and cured scurvy. So why didn’t sailors just eat fresh meat on their voyages across the world? Because it would rot. So they dried it, and dried meat loses its Vitamin C. That is why they began taking citrus fruits on voyages and hence why they are called “limeys”.

So back to the story. I also researched the need for fiber since I would be giving up all fiber by eliminating vegetables. Wouldn’t I get constipated? Turns out that fiber actually causes constipation!

I didn’t think I would ever hear that because “eating a low fiber diet is known to cause constipation”…everybody knows that, right? But being the health sleuth I am, I did the research and was really quite shocked to find that no fiber diets are perfectly fine and reduce constipation, bloating, and gas! I can attest that I do not have any of those issues eating a carnivore diet. Seriously, no farts! And here is a snippet from a study performed at submitted to the World Journal of Gastroenterology on the effects of no and low fiber versus high fiber diets:

RESULTS: The median age of the patients (16 male, 47 female) was 47 years (range, 20-80 years). At 6 mo, 41 patients remained on a no fiber diet, 16 on a reduced fiber diet, and 6 resumed their high fiber diet for religious or personal reasons. Patients who stopped or reduced dietary fiber had significant improvement in their symptoms while those who continued on a high fiber diet had no change. Of those who stopped fiber completely, the bowel frequency increased from one motion in 3.75 d (± 1.59 d) to one motion in 1.0 d (± 0.0 d) (P < 0.001); those with reduced fiber intake had increased bowel frequency from a mean of one motion per 4.19 d (± 2.09 d) to one motion per 1.9 d (± 1.21 d) on a reduced fiber diet (P < 0.001); those who remained on a high fiber diet continued to have a mean of one motion per 6.83 d (± 1.03 d) before and after consultation. For no fiber, reduced fiber and high fiber groups, respectively, symptoms of bloating were present in 0%, 31.3% and 100% (P < 0.001) and straining to pass stools occurred in 0%, 43.8% and 100% (P < 0.001).

CONCLUSION: Idiopathic constipation and its associated symptoms can be effectively reduced by stopping or even lowering the intake of dietary fiber.

* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3435786/

I could go on providing more and more information regarding the Carnivore diet, but I want to give you just enough information for you to do as I did and go do the same research. Nobody should be following diet advice from someone else without doing the research to understand what they are embarking on. I will discuss later the need of Vitamin C and the bioavailability of veggies because those are both discussions that need a lot of room and individual thought.

For me, the diet is simple, delicious, and great for maintaining my health and weight. Its also great for health in general. I guess there’s another topic of discussion for a later date! But I will leave you with a graphic of a study done by Harvard University on the Carnivore diet to whet your intelligence appetite!

Let me know your thoughts in the comment section and ask questions!

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Recommended further reading:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21521539/

https://www.doctorkiltz.com/vitamin-c-on-carnivore-diet/

https://michaelkummer.com/health/plants-vs-meat/#0-nutrients-in-plants-vs-animals