hey guys welcome to sugar md channel
today we are
talking about the effect of protein on
your blood sugars let's get started
so guys i'm dr ahmed ergin i'm an
endocrinologist and diabetes education
specialist
and i get this question all the time
doc i'm not eating any carbs why is
my blood sugar is going up
so here's the answer guys
protein also increases blood sugar if
you are a type
1 diabetic you will clearly see that
a lot easier but if you're an insulin
resistant
type 2 diabetic and i say insulin
resistant like
really insulin resistant type 2 diabetic
and maybe a
less insulin production overall compared
to a newbie type 2 diabetic let's say
you're 20 years of a veteran type 2
diabetic
you're more likely to see these spikes
with protein in your blood sugar
well i'll tell you why the protein
actually
increases the gluconeogenesis
in your liver now most people think that
the protein doesn't spike blood sugar
because
most people are immediately concerned
about
the blood sugar spike right after a meal
on the other hand
they don't realize or they don't pay
attention to what happens
five six hours after a meal by the time
they're either sleeping or they're busy
doing something or they're ready for the
next meal
right so five hours is a long time
in between meals now but what happens
with the protein is your blood sugar
really starts
going up five six hours after a high
protein meal
now i'm not just saying that based on
the experience that has also been
studied
studies showed that on average actually
the effect of protein is five times
less than glucose
in terms of spiking the blood sugar now
let's put in the numbers
if you are eating 100 grams of protein
and in the united states that's really
not uncommon we like beefier okay
we like the meat we got the bees like
the arby's commercial
we got the meats so meat people love
meat deer that's why we have a lot of
cancer
but regardless so the meat 100 grams of
protein
will think about this if you divide it
by five
that's almost equal to 20 grams of sugar
so most of you like you know of course i
want to eat sugar try to avoid sugar but
then trying to compensate with eating a
lot of protein
yeah your blood sugar may not spike
within the first two hours and be like
oh i did well
and then you may wake up in the morning
with a high blood sugar like what
happened oh
right so or you may just eat a breakfast
and then
but you had a bunch of salami sausage
and all that stuff
and by afternoon you're like why is my
blood sugar high i didn't eat like for
six hours i should be low by now right
so that is protein let me show you
something okay let's review
what's happening to this patient so here
you can see
this individual claims to eat zero
carbs no carbs whatsoever
and this patient has actually type 2
diabetes
and eating no carbs at all if you can
see here
this person is for example here eating a
lunch and then the blood sugar is slowly
creeping up
right around there at three to four
o'clock the blood sugars are
high right there's no immediate spike
but
slowly creeping up same thing happening
that's after
midnight i think he had a late meal over
there and
in the mornings the blood sugar tend to
spike more
with pretty much any meal so you can see
that here but you can see it here as
well
again you know you're seeing this slow
creeping up
another one here these slow increases in
in the
blood sugar are typically happening with
protein ingestion
and if you're ingesting only like you
know 20 30 grams of protein 40 grams of
protein that's not gonna be significant
because again remember one fifth turns
into sugar but if you're eating 7 500
grams of protein
that is going to haunt you man now what
is the solution to that
i would say same thing portion control
if you're not controlling yourself and
eating like a whole chicken at one
seating
that is not going to help you my friend
in any way
so uh moderation moderation migration no
matter what you're eating you have to
pay attention
to what is going to your stomach again
couple tips for you
eat slow chew chew chew
chew as long as you can take longer time
to finish that meal do not
eat fast when you eat fast your body
does not have time
to realize what is really going on and
how much food is coming in could be
sugar
carb protein fat doesn't matter if you
ingest it fast enough you're not going
to realize how much calories you're
putting in
and eventually those things will end up
catching up with you
and will turn into sugar so guys i hope
that was helpful
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