Comment on: Insulin Index – Hormonal Obesity XXIII

Ash Simmonds:

Insulin gets all the spotlight, but not many folk talk about the insulin: glucagon ratio which gives insulin levels context.

– http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8811328

High carbs and high protein meals both increase insulin, but the protein stimulates glucagon also whilst carbs suppress it.

Of course that’s abstracted to macronutrients and we need to delve further into types of carb/protein, but point is it’s an important consideration.

Dr Jason Fung

Most likely you are correct. However, the amount of research into glucagon or insulin/glucagon ratio is many many times less that insulin so the answers are not known

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