15-04-2012, 08:25 PM
Yes, Karen,
That's what it means. After a meal with simple carbs, you get a sugar rush. Unless you eat complex carbs, you get a sugar dip after that, sometimes for several hours.
Fenugreek makes the pancreas shoot insulin into the blood stream as soon as it's ingested or digested. The insulin makes energy from blood sugar (the warming feeling you got), and leaves you with low blood sugar. I once saw black before my eyes after fenugreek. Fenugreek on an empty stomach can have that effect after twenty minutes. After a meal, fenugreek takes longer to go through the intestine.
I time the fenugreek so that the sugar rush from the meal coincides with the low blood sugar from the fenugreek, so they cancel. So I use the fenugreek to stabilize my blood sugar. The ultimate goal is to stabilize insulin too. That has benefits in waist slimming and diabetes prevention. Fenugreek as such is supposed to help in waist slimming and diabetes prevention, but I hope it helps more if I time it right.
Diabetes prevention is more important at my age than at yours. If you had an hereditary or lifestyle predisposition towards diabetes, you would have diabetes by now. You don't, so you won't get it any more.
That's what it means. After a meal with simple carbs, you get a sugar rush. Unless you eat complex carbs, you get a sugar dip after that, sometimes for several hours.
Fenugreek makes the pancreas shoot insulin into the blood stream as soon as it's ingested or digested. The insulin makes energy from blood sugar (the warming feeling you got), and leaves you with low blood sugar. I once saw black before my eyes after fenugreek. Fenugreek on an empty stomach can have that effect after twenty minutes. After a meal, fenugreek takes longer to go through the intestine.
I time the fenugreek so that the sugar rush from the meal coincides with the low blood sugar from the fenugreek, so they cancel. So I use the fenugreek to stabilize my blood sugar. The ultimate goal is to stabilize insulin too. That has benefits in waist slimming and diabetes prevention. Fenugreek as such is supposed to help in waist slimming and diabetes prevention, but I hope it helps more if I time it right.
Diabetes prevention is more important at my age than at yours. If you had an hereditary or lifestyle predisposition towards diabetes, you would have diabetes by now. You don't, so you won't get it any more.