Dr. Gabrielle Lyon

So we need a certain amount to maintain blood sugar.

But anything above that is considered toxic and abnormal.

In fact, in a two-hour period, we have a name for that.

If your glucose remains elevated, and that is?

Exactly.

We do not have a name for that for protein.

This is with the understanding that elevated levels of blood glucose can be toxic to the body.

And you release insulin, you have a high carbohydrate load, you use insulin to move glucose out of the bloodstream into cells.

This should not be used every day.

This is not, we do not want to depend on insulin to move glucose out of the bloodstream.

We, number one, don't want to have too many carbohydrates at that one meal.

And number two, we have to use our muscle to move glucose out of the bloodstream into muscle without the use of insulin.

Okay, so this is like a very long-winded story.

The other aspect of carbohydrates, and we're going to come back to, are carbohydrates bad?

And I think that they're bad for some people.

If 74% or so of Americans are either overweight or obese, I'm assuming they have some kind of, if not overt, metabolic dysregulation, right?

So when we begin to think about how we design a diet, and everybody talks about carbohydrates, is how many carbohydrates per day?

but it really comes down to how many carbohydrates per meal and how do we dispose of those carbohydrates if we are sedentary the answer to that is roughly i wouldn't have anyone go over

40 or so grams of carbohydrates at a meal.

Beyond that, you begin to distort metabolism.