@A DiabetesTeam Member without turning this in a phisiology class here is a layman's version of what happens when you exercise and why it can effect your blood sugar one way or the other

Our body uses two type of blood sugar - Glucose, which is the sugars we (produce) by consuming carbs

But we need sugar "outside" the few hours a day when we are absorbing carbs through digestion

So the liver can convert the excess sugar into Glucagon and it's stored in both the Liver (to dispense through the body as needed) and in the muscles so they have "fuel" if you work them

Our muscles store over 1000 grams worth of Glucagon at any given time

As we work our muscles the Glucagon is turned back into Glucose for fuel - sometimes there will be "leftovers" after the workout and your BG will rise

However, your body is also going to try and replace whatever Glucagon it burned up during the workout (like going to the gas station to top up)

If you have sufficient insulin present it will allow the conversion and storage back in the muscles and your BG will go down as it's being removed from the blood and stored back in the muscles

Bottom line is - exercising will "burn blood sugar" - but since it's a conversion process the timing of it, as an observer, may seem counter intuitive where it could rise before it starts to fall "during the process"

Depending on "when" you measure the BG it may simply be "representative of that step in the process" and not the end result

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Glucogen tells the liver to release stored glucose, glycogen.

@A DiabetesTeam Member - Thanks. I had an interesting experience yesterday regarding lowering my bs and exercise. At the gym, I usually do aerobics first(recombant bike)and then resistance machines and free weights, with bike daily and weights every other day. Anyway, yesterday, i decided to just do resistance machines and free weights and pass on the bike, as my knee is acting up a bit. I usually do the same set number of reps each time but yesterday, I exercised the muscles till exhaustion. The results were amazing. It was shortly after dinner and my my bs dropped from 140 to 70 within a 1/2 hour. I thoight the liver would immediately kick in to drop more glucose but that did not happen and my bs numbers remained at a great level for many hours. This may be an anomaly, so I will test it out again next at the gym. Wonders never cease.

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MikeyMikey Nice to see you doing well. I do very low carb except for the odd meal out.

I go most times to the gym once a week plus sessions on my exercise bike plus long distance walks of up to 22 miles most times once a week.

I'm also very insulin resistant and I also think it might be something to do with the liver. I've got some cgm data which I've not really analysed so it might throw some light. Also I note that the lower a meal is in carbs the higher the rate of glucose per whatever unit is used. and vice versa. Whilst my data sample is small it might suggest that with very low carb intake the more the body works to extract glucose and vice versa.

When I exercise at the gym or on the bike at home my bgs go down but sometimes rebounds which might suggest that the liver dumps glucose because it thinks I need it. It could be that the homeostasis is set too high meaning that when my bgs fall below a certain level the liver dumps glucose to bring it back up even if that level is too high.

So maybe the trick is to reset the threshold where the liver dumps glucose to an increasing lower level until I reach the non diabetic level.

@A DiabetesTeam Member yes, the Covid cootie multiplied by feeding off (killing) a certain type of cell and the pancreas happens to be full of them

So IF covid infected the cells of the pancreas it killed the ability to produce insulin - sometimes a little or sometimes a lot

The numbers fluctuate but between 8 and 12% of the population in most of the developed world is Diabetic

Covid Diabetics, Type 3C account for fully 1% of that total - it is just slightly below the incidence of multi-generational heriditary diabetes in the general public and at least the last follow up research that I read, (they) still didn't know if this was a permanent condition or if after the virus was completely gone, if the pancreas could recover the impairment or not

About 40% of those who developed 3C Covid diabetes have since gone into remission, so perhaps if you were otherwise at low risk (ate well, healthy, normal weight etc etc) things got back to normal, but if you were heading for an interview with the Beast "before" Covid, it may have been the proverbial straw that broke it...

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