How can you tell if your carb sensitive?
Eat a high carb meal. If you start to get either extremely tired, lethargic, or hungry about 1-2 hours after your meal then you are carb sensitive. If you have a steady increase in energy levels without a measureable decrease within 2 hours you’re probably not carb sensitive. There are other methods of determining carb sensitivity but this one is one of the easiest.
ok, pardon my ignorance, but what do you do if you are coarb sensitive ???
Go read the topic on type 2 diabetes and
insulin resistance. The treatment protocols
covered there apply to “carb sensitive” people
as well.
Thanks for the response. I guess I am carb sensitive. Time to watch what and how much carbs I intake and see if this helps improve my training.
kelly, wouldnt that also depend on the type of carbs ingested? ie. complex or simple.
p-dog: simple carbs get absorbed quicker so they should have a more prominent effect in regards to how quickly an insulin response occurs. Complex carbs have a more steady release and release insulin at a more sustained rate. I’m not too sure as to what the proper way of testing for carb sensetivity is. You would have to analyze a lot of factors such as your current weight, size of meal, type of carbs and other energy sources (fats and proteins). I don’t think you can simply say, “If you eat a high carb meal and feel tired” you are carb sensetive. Normally, your body adjusts it’s carb sensetivity in response to the ammount of carbs consumed. For instance, if you gradually eat less carbs, temporarilly, your body’s insulin levels will drop, however, if staying constant with such an intake, the body will rebound and use the extra carbs for more glycogen storage (e.g.: less carbs = same ammount of insulin over time). The only time such is not neccessarilly true is in the case of ketogenic diets I believe. I think this is something you should consult a physician or dietition on. Even I cannot answer your question to its entireity but I can give you some suggestions and ideas. Hope this helps.
Joe.
Yeah it does make a difference as far as what type of carbs you consume but if you were to do this test in a drs. office I believe they use pure glucose so for the purpose of testing the simpler carb source the better.