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Postprandial glucose

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Postprandial glucose is your blood sugar after a meal. It often peaks within 30 to 90 minutes (around 60 minutes for mixed meals), then drifts back toward your fasting level. Note: the standard clinic test at 2 hours after a meal catches sugar on the way back down, not the peak itself. How big and how long the spike is depends on the amount and type of carbs, how fast your stomach empties, your insulin response, and how well tissues take up the sugar. Big, repeated spikes (in non-diabetics, a value above about 140 mg/dL is rare) link, step by step, to vascular risk and heart disease. That makes controlling post-meal sugar a key goal in metabolic and longevity nutrition.

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Sources

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