HbA1C alone is not suffice to determine abnormalities in blood glucose, while on carnivore, because your red blood cells might have a longer turnover rate on this diet. So, it's vital that you actually monitor your blood glucose as well as your HbA1C.
The reason that a no carb diet can cause blood glucose to elevate is because carbs are not the only cause of this problem. Counter regulatory malfunction causes blood glucose to elevate, regardless of diet. So, there can be some potential reasons why this diet can affect blood glucose. Some common ones are:
- Prior hyperglucagonemia - Many people who have metabolic syndrome have lost their first phase insulin response. This means that their insulin levels rise, after protein intake, just enough to cause glucose to be released by glucagon from the liver, but not enough to stop it. It takes a much higher release of insulin to stop catabolism than to start it. If your insulin levels never reach the appropriate spike because you are simply not producing enough, catabolism does not stop and you continue producing an enormous amount of glucose, from not only the foods you eat, but from the breakdown of your own body. Specifically liver glycogen and lean muscle mass. This is most obvious on carnivore, since it’s a protein centered diet. Protein did not cause this and avoiding it will not fix it. It will take time for this to normalize and your blood glucose to begin lowering. Carnivore only makes this problem obvious in the short term. The diet is simply unmasking a problem you already had beforehand.
- Stress response - People who go carnivore oftentimes end up not eating enough calories because of the satiating effect of protein or because they believe they will end up eating "too much meat" and so they restrict their portions. Make sure you aren’t doing this due to eating one meal a day (OMAD) or doing extended fasts. So, make sure you are eating enough and that you are moderate in fat intake. Do not do “no fat” because that would be a protein sparing modified fast, not carnivore.
- Incorrect carnivore protocols - Make sure you are truly eating carnivore and not eating ham and salami all day. Processed, cured meats contain carbohydrate fillers and this can potentially deteriorate blood glucose over time. Quality of food is vital for people with metabolic disorders.
2. Blood glucose will not run high, in the mornings, if you are following a low carbohydrate diet.
False. That is actually being tackled by some pretty intelligent people in diabetes research. Those people are way smarter than me. As of this time, there is no single answer for this, as no one has found the cure for diabetes, regardless of what your favorite low carb diet doctor says. When they win the Nobel Prize in medicine for finding "the cure" for diabetes, please inform me.
High morning blood glucose, or any high blood glucose resulting from fasting, is called ‘Dawn Phenomenon’ (DP). It is simply an over expression of adrenal counter regulation to falling blood glucose, as you fast. Your body is trying to prevent lower blood glucose, as it is adapted towards hyperglycemia. This is the result of chronic large disparities between lows and highs in blood glucose. The body is trying to protect itself from the lows by keeping blood glucose as high as possible.
Eating breakfast can help lower this blood glucose. Early morning exercise can also help lower it. Eating dinner later, the night before, can help lower it. You can do all kinds of circus tricks to lower your morning blood glucose, but the only way to truly control it is by consistently adhering to a proper dietary and lifestyle protocol that corrects your glucose regulation.
Reduce your fasting times to no more than 12 hours a day and eat three meals during your eating window. This helps reduce ups and downs in blood glucose and helps stop this exaggerated response by the body over time.
3. You should include extended fasting alongside your ketogenic protocol in order to address auto immune conditions.
Stop stimulating your counter regulatory systems to produce more glucose with this fasting BS. Reduce your fasting regimen to only 12 hours a day.
The main thing that helps autoimmune diseases is lowering the stress response. People with autoimmune conditions do very well in environments that are predictable and routinized. This means consistent meal times, consistent sleep times, consistent fasting times and consistent exercise times. This helps the natural pulsatile rhythms of the immune system and the hormones that work with it. Any kind of stress and disruption to routines, causes flare ups of these conditions.
4. You cannot do "keto" if you are allergic to dairy and eggs.
Ketogenic protocols are not "dairy and eggs". Ketogenic protocols for the treatment of overweight/obesity and/or metabolic conditions are simply very low in carbohydrate. This means that you can do this protocol eating meat and vegetables only.
5. Stevia raises insulin levels.
Some studies have shown that artificial sweeteners like stevia have a long-term effect on insulin levels, but other studies have not shown this correlation. For that reason, the avoidance of artificial sweeteners, on this blog, is primarily focused on their effects on dopamine.
Dopamine is a very powerful metabolic regulator that is affected by the constant taste of sweet and will have you storing fat, as if you are preparing for winter. For that reason, you want to stop this constant stimulation of dopamine by halting taking hits from the sweet pipe.
The taste of sweet also has some effects on leptin, which are not well understood. But if you look at it through the lens of dopamine and how it helps you store fat for winter, then it is not difficult to understand that storage requires other metabolic hormones to cooperate, including leptin and insulin. In essence, they are all affected. So, this blog is anti-sweet. Sweet is always pro obesogenic.
6. ‘Dawn Phenomenon’ is the way your liver gives you a shot of glucose, so you already have your breakfast internally. This means you do not have to eat breakfast.
I hate to say this, but that’s stupid. It’s truly the stupidest thing I have heard so far, on here, and I have heard some really stupid stuff before. I apologize, but there truly is no other way to describe this.
Dawn Phenomenon is not truly a “phenomenon”. It is the natural process that the body has of waking up and getting you going. It is a counter regulatory system activated by low insulin levels and falling glucose levels. It is exaggerated in people with metabolic syndrome/diabetes and they release an enormous amount of unnecessary glucose, since their bodies are trying to keep their glucose levels as high as possible to counteract their chronic high insulin levels and any sudden drops in blood glucose it could cause. Basically, the body wants your blood glucose to stay at 200 mg/dL because that’s how high it will get after doughnuts. It has adapted to higher than normal blood glucose from a bad diet.
None of this has anything to do with your liver providing you breakfast. You will produce glucose in the morning regardless, so no, you don’t have to skip breakfast if you don’t want to. What you have to do is fix the issue and it’s not fixed by skipping breakfast. It takes much more than that. I know people want an easy, one liner fix to their problem, but it doesn’t work that way. Life is much more complicated than that.
For some people blood glucose drops after they eat breakfast, as it causes their body to stop producing glucose, since it’s coming in from the diet and the rise in insulin stops the catabolic process. For others, it makes their blood glucose worse. The rise in insulin only causes for catabolism to increase, since their insulin is just not rising enough to stop it. How far along you are in the disease process determines this. The more first phase insulin response loss you have, the higher your blood glucose will go after a meal.
Reacting to this symptom and trying to correct it, every morning, by chasing it down with either breakfast/no breakfast or exercise/no exercise is not fixing the problem that’s causing it. You will only be on the symptom merry go round daily.
The way this is fixed is by stopping the drops in blood glucose you are experiencing nightly. This isn’t done by any one thing. This is done by having an entire lifestyle change that addresses all metabolic hormones at once in order to stabilize blood glucose. A dietary and exercise protocol that you follow consistently and adhere to diligently gets you on the right path to address this.
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