My mistake! I meant exogenous insulin. The insulin output of a healthy pancreas (endogenous) is much faster to act and finish. Thanks for the belated and much needed correction!
OK. Thank you! Is Endogenous pretty much āinstantaneousā?
I look forward to learning more about and trying to refine my use of TAG.
About carb counting for protein:
I was wondering if anyone in the group estimates their carb for their protein. Most of the time, we tend to eat āabout the same amountā of protein (whether it be chicken, fish, beef, porkā¦etc). Since the carb counting conversion for protein is 50%, does it seem reasonable to use somewhere between 12g to 20g as the carb portion from the protein?
I think real insulin (aka the good stuff from the pancreas) is in and out of the system within 4 minutes, and that the insulin you inject, once it gets into the blood stream, is acting quite rapidly too. This is why Iām really hoping to get a visualization of an estimate of the insulin active in the blood at any given time; I think it will really be enlightening.
You know, Iāve been doing something similar I think with openAPS. Weāve upped our sonās basals WAAY above what he actually needs and then trust openAPS to ramp down if he begins to drop. I suspect the huge crazy fast rises we used to see with eating was not from each gram of carb literally being converted into glucose, but because the food touching his lips signaled his body to dump liver glucose. So getting some extra insulin in before he eats through higher baseline basals (but not all), we are suppressing that liver dump and then we can bolus for the carbs without worrying too much about timing.
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with T1 and T2, the liver isnāt turned down much with the added insulin, non-d people get a big, quick insulin hit to turn the liver down, watch from 15 minutes
Maybe but I canāt figure out why this technique works otherwise. Iād love
it if someone can explain why it works so well.