I'm glad you are okay. That is scary. Yes, I think anxiety can be caused by blood sugar issues. I say that b/c my mother had anxiety attacks when we were little and she was boardline diabetic for years (years, she knows how to fudge those glucose fasting test, not the A1C test they have now). I know for myself when my sugars are low, I feel like crap warmed over and very jumpy.

I just came back from the docs and he said I definitely had hypoglycemia trouble there. That even my fasting blood work suggests I have low blood sugar issues. But also noting that dairy could be a part of the picture as I have increased my dairy since becoming gluten free, I am off dairy for the next 3 weeks and then will see him again. He is also thinking I shoud do testing for leaky gut issues as that can all be related to some of the other stuff that has come up- like low globulin and high albumin. It never really comes to an end does it? I am 3 days without dairy and I do feel better. I think I loved dairy more than bread- if that is even possible.

Leslie

We got rid of dairy after gluten too. Though the children didn't really seem to mind... I must admit that I thought it was harder... not the milk part... but the cheese.

It was worth it though. We are healthier. It didn't make the profound difference that gluten did - but it still did make enough of a difference that we save it for only special occasions.

From the stats I've seen, 50% of the population are lactose intolerant, 33% are fructose malabsorbers and one in 120-130 people are gluten sensitive (one person thinks 1 in 30) could it be that we just need to eat a very simple diet, could it be that because of industrialization we can get pineapples from Hawaii (not native there either) bananas from South America, coffee from SA and Africa , ETC., so we eat them out of habit and because we like them (sugar is so easy to like LOL) and because they're in the Food Pyramid. Could it be that life really is simple but we complicate it? From what I understand the body needs sugar, but how much, if you go to this link you can enter almost any food and find the composition, try it for onion, cauliflower, broccoli etc., compare the amount of sugar to that of fruits.

http://grande.nal.usda.gov/NDL/index.html

Maybe, just maybe, the amount of sugar in veggies is enough, or maybe when regional fruit is in season and then only in moderation.

Could it be that simple ???......... naaaaawwww , surely it must be more complicated than that

There is another area of our lives that the KISS principal "may" apply to but that's a whole new thread.

(Disclaimer, this is just my opinion I could be wrong)

Your body only requires 1 tsp of glucose and it can be synthesized in the liver from protein (glucogenesis). Most tissues can be fueled with ketones, in fact some tissues prefer them to glucose. So you could survive eating no sugar (or carbohydrates) whatsoever. As evidence of this, look at someone fasting or on a hunger strike. They can survive about a month or so. Part of what keeps them alive is that the tiny amount of glucose they need can be created from proteins in their body. But that is also what will kill them, the body will catabolize the proteins from organs, like the heart.

People who live in artic environments often go many, many months without eating carbohydrates and they've managed to flourish for many generations in that environment.

Yes, I've read a bit about their diet and how everyone thinks that a high meat diet is so bad for you... and science can't seem to explain why they do so well, health-wise... Then again, I believe that that article was not researched a great deal... obviously.

However, the difference is that their meat is not grain fed, they eat a lot of it raw - they still have the knowledge to prep it properly. So they're getting full enzyme content,appropriate iodine, etc. etc.

We just don't get that from our meat... and there's really not much iodine in the Great Lakes area so even a paleo diet geared to this region would lack that. So, it's not just the way we farm but the area that we live in also.