{"id":1496,"date":"2023-04-07T00:41:14","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T00:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drksaulakh.com\/?page_id=1496"},"modified":"2024-01-13T16:28:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T16:28:08","slug":"spikes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/drksaulakh.com\/index.php\/services\/spikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Glucose Spikes"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1496\" class=\"elementor elementor-1496\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-f57b1c6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"f57b1c6\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2eb042d\" data-id=\"2eb042d\" 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data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;rollIn&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.18.0 - 20-12-2023 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The Spikes<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2d42552 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2d42552\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-453d3fd\" data-id=\"453d3fd\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d8c0882 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d8c0882\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Glucose spikes is on the rise, beside age and gender, we can identify most vulnerable group of people. Some of us, should say most of us have normal sugar levels in regular medical examination, when checked empty stomach. GLUCOSE SPIKE in medical term is known as postprandial hyperglycemia, in other words a very high blood sugar level after eating. If you eat something especially starchy meal, it&#8217;s normal for blood sugar to go up after food, but if it goes above 140, it&#8217;s called glucose spike or post prandial hyperglycemia. Why they don&#8217;t tell you to check it after 1 hour. Even if you go for <b>GTT<\/b>, they will give you a reading before taking a drink and after 2 hours, thereby missing the Spike.&nbsp;&nbsp;Almost every time you eat a meal, you spike your sugar and so does the Insulin. Advancing age itself is a risk factor for prediabetes\/diabetes. When you were young, this spike after eating a meal was genuine and your glucose came back down to baseline quickly, but the older you got, the higher the glucose will rise and the longer it would take to get the blood sugar back to the normal range. By the time, you are diagnosed with Diabetes, you are probably experiencing a major rise in glucose, and this spike is so sharp, so fast and it&#8217;s so high often jumping up to 200-300mg\/dl after food.<\/p>\n<h3><b>Post meal or Post Prandial SPIKES<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Good way to check how normal people responds to glucose rise after a meal.&nbsp;When diabetes is creeping up, the first evidence we see is the rise in postprandial reading, glucose spike after a meal. Your fasting and HbA1C could be in normal at this stage.<\/p>\n<h3>Glucose spikes. Why is this happening&#8230;!!<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;Normally when we eat, after absorption,&nbsp;<b>glucose <\/b>enters blood stream and when <b>pancreas <\/b>sees this, it secretes <b>insulin <\/b>and the job of insulin is to move the <b>glucose <\/b>from <b>blood<\/b> to <b>liver<\/b> <b>cells<\/b>,&nbsp;<b>muscle cells<\/b> and<b> fat cells <\/b>where energy is produced from glucose and excess is stored as <b>glycogen <\/b>and <b>fat,&nbsp;<\/b>thereby bringing Blood glucose to normal levels again. <b>Age<\/b>,<b> abdominal obesity<\/b>, combined with <b>hereditary factors <\/b>causes the liver cells, fat cells and muscle cells to be <b>resistant <\/b>to <b>insulin<\/b>, and <b>glucose <\/b>in blood starts rising especially after eating, in the initial stage of <b>glucose intolerance<\/b> or <b>prediabetes,&nbsp;<\/b>thereby causing <b>glucose spikes. <\/b>When you are no longer jumping up to <b>125-140<\/b> after a starchy meal, instead you are jumping up to <b>200 mg<\/b> or even higher. And you are staying in an unacceptable range for many hours after food. It may take years to develop diabetes, but you are heading towards in that direction.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The biggest problem is that most of us are not concerned with this glucose spike, what we do is, we check their current glucose level and send them for HbA1C. In both these situations if readings are close to normal, then we say, there is nothing to worry about, but we miss the spikes. If you are spiking your sugar to 140 or more, exactly 1 hour after meal, you need to worry about it, and it&#8217;s the right time to take some steps before things go totally out of hands. You can take charge of your health before it&#8217;s too late. Cheap and best way to detect glucose spike is to test yourself with glucometer exactly 1 hour after a high starchy meal. If it comes out to be 125 or less, you are doing fine but if the numbers are going up and up, then you have a problem, no matter what your fasting glucose is, or the HbA1C.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the time to make changes in your diet: <b>more carbs=higher glucose=higher spikes<\/b>, there is a link between carbs and glucose that is never broken. High <b>glucose spikes <\/b>and high <b>insulin levels <\/b>are far greater predictors for cardiovascular issues than your <b>cholesterol <\/b>or <b>triglycerides <\/b>levels.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4c9d2da elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4c9d2da\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-302c95c\" data-id=\"302c95c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b41a896 elementor-widget elementor-widget-video\" data-id=\"b41a896\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;video_type&quot;:&quot;hosted&quot;,&quot;controls&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"video.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! 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Postprandial hyperglycemia is not only\u00a0 linked up with diabetes but also with cardiovascular disease and cancer.<\/span><\/p><h5><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; background-color: var(--ast-global-color-4); color: var(--ast-global-color-3);\">PEAK RESPONSE TIME\u00a0<\/span>is when your glucose levels in the blood hits the peak after meal.<\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c1ecbda elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c1ecbda\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d07c562\" data-id=\"d07c562\" 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data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Avoid Morning Glucose Spikes<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8e7a15d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8e7a15d\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-fe4e6c3\" data-id=\"fe4e6c3\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-835fbfe elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"835fbfe\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Why are you sometimes experiencing <b>glucose spikes<\/b> and <b>dips<\/b> at night?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>You manage your diabetes carefully, making certain your <b>diet<\/b> is <b>balanced<\/b> and your <b>insulin<\/b> is taken at the correct times. So, why are you waking up each morning with blood sugar much higher than you went to bed with?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>There are <b>three<\/b> major reasons why your blood sugar spikes in the morning, and there is one way to figure out which of the three is the problem so that you know how to treat it.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h5><b>1. The Dawn Phenomenon<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>After many hours without food, our bodies need to \u201cgear up\u201d for the day. During the night, after several hours of sleep, the body naturally begins to release the <b>hormones<\/b> it will need upon wakening: <b>cortisol<\/b>, <b>glucagon<\/b> and <b>epinephrine<\/b>, among others. By the middle of the night \u2013 between about <b>2am<\/b> and <b>5am<\/b> \u2013 these levels are coursing through the bodies of all of us, diabetic and non-diabetic alike. For those who are&nbsp;<b>not<\/b>&nbsp;<b>diabetic<\/b>,&nbsp;<b>insulin<\/b>&nbsp;levels also rise, to counter the increased&nbsp;<b>blood glucose<\/b>. For those with&nbsp;<b>diabetes<\/b>, however, the body doesn\u2019t respond this way. When the person with diabetes awakes, the consequence is a&nbsp;<b>high blood glucose reading<\/b>.<\/p>\n<h5>2. The Somogyi Effect<\/h5>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the cause of high blood glucose readings in the morning is <b>overcompensation<\/b>. While sleeping, sugar levels may drop too low. The body\u2019s response to this is to release these same hormones \u2013 <b>cortisol<\/b>, <b>glucagon<\/b> and <b>epinephrine<\/b>. The <b>glucagon<\/b> causes the <b>liver<\/b> to produce <b>glucose<\/b>, flooding the bloodstream. Sugar levels may become very high, but you are sleeping through it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h5>3. Waning Insulin<\/h5><p>Maybe the problem is even simpler. Perhaps the insulin you took at bedtime was just not strong enough to do the job of maintaining a normal sugar level for the entire night. Maybe your dinner had more <b>carbs<\/b> than usual, or you took a walk in the evening. Your evening dose of insulin managed your glucose levels for a while, but it wasn\u2019t enough to sustain you for the night. &nbsp;When you wake, you may feel a&nbsp;<b>pounding<\/b>&nbsp;<b>headache<\/b>&nbsp;and be lying in&nbsp;<b>sweat-soaked sheets<\/b>. Your sugar is still high. These could be indicators that your sugar levels have&nbsp;<b>rebounded<\/b>, a condition known as the&nbsp;<b>Somogyi effect&nbsp;<\/b>(named after researcher&nbsp;<b>Michael Somogyi<\/b>&nbsp;PhD, who first described it in 1938.)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h5>How to Figure it Out<\/h5>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>There is a way to find out which of these reasons is causing your morning sugar spikes. Over a period of several nights, consistently check your blood sugar at bedtime, at <b>3 am<\/b> and upon waking.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>If your blood sugar is about the same at bedtime and 3 am, but sharply higher when you wake up, you are probably experiencing the <b>dawn<\/b> <b>phenomenon<\/b>. If your blood sugar is <b>low<\/b> at <b>3 am<\/b>, and higher at both bedtime and upon waking, then it is likely you are experiencing the <b>Somogyi<\/b> <b>effect<\/b>. If your glucose levels are higher than bedtime at 3 am, and higher still at waking, then your <b>insulin<\/b> levels are probably <b>waning<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h4>Treatment<\/h4>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Bring the results of your test to your physician and discuss the approach he or she recommends to counter the problem. Don\u2019t attempt to materially change your dosing or diet yourself, without the guidance of your physician.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spikes Glucose spikes is on the rise, beside age and gender, we can identify most vulnerable group of people. 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