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Craig Emmerich: An Engineer's Guide to Optimizing Health - #96

Stay Off My Operating Table

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The Chemistry of Insulin and Blood Sugar

When you eat a flurry and it's like 30 teaspoons of sugar, right? Your body's in panic mode. And so insulin spikes really hard to deal with it, to drive that glucose down. But driving it down fast almost always inevitably drives it a little too low as well. You know, kind of a rebound before it levels out.

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