Dear Mark: High HbA1c with Low Blood Sugar; Muscle Glycogen: Is It Local?; and Ketogenic Mosquito Repellant

May 11, 2015

pimg class=”alignright size-full wp-image-55481″ src=”http://cdn.marksdailyapple.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/blood-test.jpg” alt=”” width=”320″ height=”213″ /For today#8217;s edition of a title=”Dear Mark” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/category/dear-mark/”Dear Mark/a, we#8217;ve got a three-parter. First, what could possibly explain an ardent and otherwise healthy low-carber with stellar postprandial (i.e. after a meal) blood sugar levels showing up with an HbA1c reading indicative of pre-diabetes? Who#8217;s messing up — the test or Nancy herself? Next, that pastured chicken you#8217;re about to eat may very well be local, but what about the glycogen in your quads? Is a muscle#8217;s glycogen usable only by that muscle, or can it be shipped to nearby muscles as well? And finally, a reader reports suddenly becoming unattractive to mosquitoes upon adopting a low-carb diet and bouncing in and out of ketosis. Is he imagining things or is there a potential mechanism at play?/p
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