Posted on 04/09/2009 7:08:00 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
Made in His Image: Balancing Body Temperature
by Randy J. Guliuzza, P.E., M.D.*
A major achievement for design engineers is building precise control mechanisms for active processes. Lives depend on the precision in which certain processes are maintained, such as the manufacture of drugs.
Even more vital to survival is the human body's complex, integrated system that maintains precise control over the body's temperature even when it generates tremendous quantities of internal heat through strenuous activity or is exposed to wide-ranging external temperatures...
(Excerpt) Read more at icr.org ...
No bro, there are no carbs in beer, just calories. big difference.
The remaining cells, like the brain, need glucose, which is produced from glycogen stores.
If you don't have glycogen stores because you're low carbing, the glucose is made from amino acids using Gluconeogenesis instead.
it causes your body to store even more fat in that area if you regularly deprive your body of carbs.
Um, where did you get that idea from ?
I shouldn’t say NO carbs in beer. But as far as carbs go, there are only 2.5-5g carbs in a regular American beer.
As far as carbs go, that’s next to nothing. In fact, Non alcohol beers have 11-15g carbs.
I had to look it up to prove I was right, that diabetics can drink beers and liquor. Some people seem to think we can’t.
Other than the normal excessive alcohol intake problems that apply to everyone, there is no problem with alcohol and diabetes. The carbs are minimal.
Look it up. I’m REALLY tired of having to do this to PROVE that your LIVER produces glucose when your dietary intake is insufficient. When your liver does this, it produces an excess of glucose, which is then stored as fats around your liver and intestines.
Simply type “Liver produces glucose” in google search. it should provide a wiki pedia link which will give you the medical terms
The Liver does not produce glucose from fat.
The Liver produces glucose from glycogen or amino acids.
yes it does, because your liver produces far too much of it and it is subsequently stored as fat around the liver and abdomen. That's why you see many type 2 diabetics carrying around that "spare tire". Unlike a type one diabetic, type 2's are more prone to low glucose crashes, and liver production of glucose.
look it up.
I just finished a 3 week course on the subject. I know what I'm talking about, being a diabetic myself.
I never said it did. I said the excess is stored as fat.
Which is? Tissue. The liver itself, muscle etc. It releases the acids to break down the connectivve tissue to convert to glucose. So what's the problem? In short, the liver begins to produce glucose when your blood levels are too low. That's what I said
Because it always produces too much, it stores this excess glucose as fats around the liver and intestines. That is what I said.
Why do you think people who eat too many carbs (bread, potatoes, sugars,) get FAT?
Buffer size? What are we, a hard drive?
"There is no storage form of protein"
Of course not. We store FAT!!!!!
"n the human body glucose cannot be converted to fat and fat cannot be converted to glucose. It lacks the necessary enzymes."
What the heck do you think your pancreas, digestive tract produces? Glocose is converted to What? by what? (hint: insulin) where does the excess glucose go? (hint: fat)
Ok, there was a misunderstanding of some sort, then.
However, people do lose weight, and improve body composition by going low-carb.
You are talking about FATS like butter, fats on meat, lard etc.
That kind of fat doesn't turn into glucose, and that kind of fat piles up on your body in much different ways than the fats converted from glucose.
That's why the abdominal fats around the liver and intestine are so very different than the fat hanging off someones thighs.
One summer when I was 13 my brother and I rode 1000 miles on bicycles through the Ozarks in three weeks, averaging about 50 miles per day, with bicycles loaded with full camping gear. We usually drank 2 to 4 gallons of water a day. By the end of each day we’d be covered by a quite easily visible layer of salt crystals. To the point where rubbing the hand across an arm would produce something resembling a snow shower.
We discovered pretty quickly that we needed extra salt or we’d get cramps. We tried salt tablets washed down with warm water and found out even faster that induces vomiting efficiently.
We wound up putting unreal amounts of salt on our food, as in 1/8” of salt on a hamburger. Worked great. Oddly enough, didn’t taste overly salty. I figure that was the body letting us know what it needed.
So don’t tell me those who sweat a lot don’t need more salt.
I realize these were extreme conditions.
It depends on your lifestyle. If you are moderately active, then you need about 60-65g of carbs per meal. And you need to eat 3 times a day. If you are less active, cut back 10g or so. If you think you are going to loose weight by eating a nice green salad for lunch, you are wrong. Why? Because you don't have any carbs in a salad. And if your other 2 meals are carb deprived, your body will produce the glucose you need, and it ALWAYS produces more than you need. (hopefully using body instead of chemical secreting liver will prevent further techical discussion) That excess however is stored as FAT. Abdominal fat. Not leg fat, underarm fat, abdominal fat.
And the reason you sweat out all that salt is because you had far too much stored up to begin with.
I'll bet after that was gone, you didn't have salty sweat anymore, it was much sweeter tasting, like cucumber sort of.
I know, I used to do a lot of running, 14 miles a day. On weekends I rode 70 miles to the cabin on my bike.
I would implore you to immerse yourself into the science of diabetes metabolism. It may extend your life by a decade or more. Please note that the conventional wisdom on 40 years of treatment protocols and psuedo science has recently been revealed by the NIH ACCORD STUDY last year. It proved that that the commonly prescribed medications and insulin killed 22% more people than the high blood sugar in the uncontrolled high glucose group. The medications have been prescribed inorder to give people like you a false sense of security and the willingness to consume 300% to 500% more carbs than you should be consuming. Alcohol is a sugar and has lots of carbs in it.
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