Posted by Larry Hoover on April 21, 2007, at 10:59:09
In reply to re: whey protein / blood sugar » qqqsimmons, posted by Cecilia on April 15, 2007, at 2:47:55
> I hadn't heard about whey causing a drop in blood sugar. Why would it do that?
The more hydrolyzed the whey, the greater the blood concentration spike in branched chain amino acids, which are thought to trigger insulin release at rates greater than glucose. It's a rate of appearance in blood that does the trick.
http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/content/full/132/8/2174
Lar
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