My understanding is that getting your insulin response measured involves several hours at a medical facility after a period of fasting. You consume a glucose solution and then your insulin levels (and blood sugar?) are measured at intervals over a period of several hours. The data obtained is used as a diagnostic in identifying insulin resistance which can be a precursor to type 2 diabetes I believe. The idea of getting the test done is to establish whether you are already on a possible path to something like metabolic syndrome. Measuring blood sugar levels yourself as part of monitoring the diet progress sounds like a good idea, but I’m not a nutritionist.
The test you describe is called a glucose tolerance test. You’ll spend a few hours in the hospital, and get back a result that says “you don’t have diabetes”. Whoopty doo. What you want is to find out whether your blood sugar ever goes low, if so when, and what it feels like. That test can’t be done in a hospital, because being in a hospital means not following your usual routine.
My understanding is that getting your insulin response measured involves several hours at a medical facility after a period of fasting. You consume a glucose solution and then your insulin levels (and blood sugar?) are measured at intervals over a period of several hours. The data obtained is used as a diagnostic in identifying insulin resistance which can be a precursor to type 2 diabetes I believe. The idea of getting the test done is to establish whether you are already on a possible path to something like metabolic syndrome. Measuring blood sugar levels yourself as part of monitoring the diet progress sounds like a good idea, but I’m not a nutritionist.
The test you describe is called a glucose tolerance test. You’ll spend a few hours in the hospital, and get back a result that says “you don’t have diabetes”. Whoopty doo. What you want is to find out whether your blood sugar ever goes low, if so when, and what it feels like. That test can’t be done in a hospital, because being in a hospital means not following your usual routine.