Whole Food Medicine Paradise: This is a good article on hypoglycemia, with the one exception that is extremely important to note. Once again, the emphasis on carbohydrate (glucose) burning for energy, is stressed as being the primary source of fuel for the body. This is only because we have been indoctrinated into being “carbohydrate/glucose burners.” The preferred fuel for our body is actually to burn essential fats. Your heart, brain and muscles all prefer fat over carbohydrates. Fat burners produce ketones– not to be mixed up with “keto-acidosis. Ketoacidosis happens when the pancreas cannot produce insulin (Type 1 diabetics and in very, very rare cases, Type 2. The book, KETO-CLARITY, by Jimmy Moore, along with 29 MD’s and nutritional biochemists and scientists from around the world have come together to explain this topic in detail. When we burn fat instead of glucose, blood sugars stabilize, cholesterol, HDL go up to the correct levels, and small dense LDL- the problem child, goes down. You lose that adipose tissue, which is cranking out estrogens (raising blood sugars) and raising inflammation markers in the body. You lose inches, pounds and you keep the weight off!
Sincerely, Tracie
http://www.healthline.com/health/low-blood-sugar-effects-on-body
Tracie Feldhaus 