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Overview<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

For many years, scientists believed that postprandial (post-meal) glycemic impact (GI)<\/a> of the foods you eat solely determined the glucose increases after meals. Your doctors and nutritionists rely on GI to determine how friendly each food is to your overall blood sugar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This idea was formed because humans share the same physiology, so naturally, our bodies should respond in the same way\u2026 But do they?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Controlling postprandial glucose spikes has been a goal of physicians for decades. This is because having continuously elevated glucose levels can lead to diabetes, and other related illnesses such as dementia.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scientists constantly debate the best way to control blood sugar levels. However, new data regarding a personalized postprandial targeting diet may be the best way to keep control of your blood sugar levels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By gathering enough information about how your body responds to different foods, you can ultimately create a personalized diet that optimizes your blood sugar. Healthy blood sugar control<\/a> is essential for optimal health, no matter what goals you have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this article, we will briefly explain the physiology of food absorption, as it is paramount to understanding how a personalized postprandial-targeting diet is so effective. Then we\u2019ll switch gears to a deep dive into the science behind individualized blood sugar response to food, and the personalized postprandial-targeting diet.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What Happens When You Ingest Food With Respect to Blood Sugar?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When you ingest food, your gut digests the food into simple units that can be absorbed. The digestion of food starts in your mouth, where chewing and some salivary enzymes start breaking down your food. As it moves through the stomach and small intestine, your digestive enzymes break down carbohydrates, proteins, and fats into sugars, amino acids and peptides, and fatty acids and glycerol, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Different carbohydrates have different structures and additional food components, which can affect their glycemic index. Also, combining carbohydrates with fibers or proteins and fats will slow down carbohydrate absorption, thus reducing the glycemic impact of your meal. This is why the dietary recommendations for managing blood sugar tell people to never eat high-carb foods without adding protein or fibers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After food moves through your small intestine, it enters the colon or the large intestine. Aside from absorbing water, minerals, and vitamin B12, it houses your gut microbes. These microbes aid in the breakdown of complex foods and produce certain nutrients (i.e. vitamin K). Some are also involved in regulating blood sugar levels as they act directly on the liver.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your gut flora partly controls how your body responds to food, and your microbiome signature is unique to each individual person, just like your fingerprint is. A personalized postprandial-targeting diet is so effective because it is personalized <\/em>for your microbiome. No two microbiomes are the same, and no two postprandial-targeting diets are the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previously, nutritionists and researchers thought that blood sugar responses to each food were the same for everyone. So, they developed standardized ways to measure blood sugar responses to food called glycemic index and glycemic load, which you can read about in our Slow Carb Diet article<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Does Personalized Postprandial-Targeting Diet Benefit You?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Recently, technologies such as continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) have made it possible for you to monitor your blood sugar from home, and it\u2019s actually accessible to non-diabetics too. Clinical studies also show that they can help you identify which foods stabilize your blood sugar the most and which foods tend to throw off your blood sugar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a recent study, researchers collected data from 327 American individuals without diabetes. The mean age of the participants was 43, and they were 78.0% female. Participants logged their food intake for 6 days. Then, they used a CGM to measure blood glucose levels every 5 minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To prevent interference with participants\u2019 regular diets, only 4 meals were standardized. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The standardized meals revealed that glycemic responses varied greatly from one individual to another. The maximum blood sugar increases varied from 6 to 94 mg\/dL among the participants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To improve the accuracy of this approach, researchers refurbished a predictive model that took the following factors into consideration :<\/p>\n\n\n\n