The standard carbohydrate counting method recommended by the American Diabetes Association is not entirely accurate when it comes to the different responses each body has to various sources of carbs.
Every person with diabetes is familiar with the method of counting carbs or glycemic load, and some veterans might know some of it by heart. Managing blood sugar levels is vital in keeping the disease in a friendly equilibrium.
Every imbalance of blood sugar can end up in the progression of the disease and even high complications. For diabetics and prediabetics, counting carbs is a way of living. Even healthy people should measure carbs, so they don’t end up having diabetes or becoming obese.
Intestinal Bacteria Can Help Predict The Individual Blood Sugar Response To Foods
The only problem with the standard carbohydrate counting method is that it indicates only an approximative rise in blood sugar in response to a specific food, not the absolute truth of blood response. The Glycemic Index of 58 is the average of individual responses ranging between 47 to 69.
Now, scientists say that the accurate truth is in the intestinal bacteria. For $500, you can forget about counting carbs and average glycemic load and find your body’s blood response to carbs from each food. By getting your feces, microbiome analyzed, you can get the algorithm of the ideal diet for your glycemia.
Research showed that personalized dietary prescription generated by this algorithm is way successful in keeping the blood sugar within the normal parameters than the standard carbohydrate counting method recommended by the American Diabetes Association.
The only flaw of the discovery is that research published was done only on healthy people. This research on diabetics is expected to be released later this year. So far, the study conducted by the Mayo Clinic shows promise that it works for them, too, since they’ve collected and analyzed data from diabetics also.
