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What Causes Low Blood Glucose Levels (Hypoglycemia)? Key Triggers Explained
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Jan 28, 2025
Low blood glucose, or hypoglycemia, can be dangerous if not managed. Discover the most common causes, symptoms, and how to prevent sudden blood sugar drops.
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if you're new here this is simple
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nutrition giving solutions to Everyday
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nutrition problems and today we are
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going to talk about the causes of
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hypoglycemia and the causes of
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hypoglycemia so if you're not a fan of
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discuss on the blog so like littlefix
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suggest you're talking about diabetes
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diabetes mediters is just group of
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diseases that are characterized by
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hypoglycemia you know elevated black
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blood glucose levels but we in patients
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with diabetes mellitas we also have
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hypoglycemia where the sugars go way way
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lower than than they should and as much
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as hyperglycemia is bad hypoglycemia is
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very very bad because it can lead to
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loss of life very fast so we already
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know the types of diabetes we've
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discussed that in a video our previous
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video but we do have type 1 diabetes
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which is common in children which is an
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autoimmune disease you know this
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complete insulin deficiency that means
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the patient who has Type 1 diabetes has
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to be on insulin therapy we also have
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type 2 diabetes which are the main cause
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of it is lifestyle changes you know a
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lack of exercise being obese being
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overweight so that is just in a nutshell
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and the symptoms of diabetes would be
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you know the three main common symptoms
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would be you know frequent urination
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they need to go to the washroom or time
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and again
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we also have frequent tasks we also have
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you know um frequent hunger that is
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polydipsia polyphagia and polyurea those
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are the three most common uh symptoms of
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diabetes but we also have uh you know
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unwanted or an intention of weight loss
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especially for patients with type 1
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diabetes they may have unintended weight
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loss you know you know bed wetting
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especially for children that would be a
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sign of type type of Diabetes but on
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today's video we want to focus more on
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the causes of hypoglycemia on the causes
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of hypoglycemia so that we can prevent
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emergencies we can prevent the need to
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rush the hospital to find Solutions so
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hypoglycemia is when the the blood
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glucose levels go too low you know and
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the signs and symptoms of hypogly loss
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of consciousness most people would faint
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you know loss of um concentration you
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know feeling tired you know less of
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energy that would indicate hypo blessing
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you and hypoglycemia occurs mostly in
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patients with who have diabetes mostly
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because they take medication without
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eating you know they're between the
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drugs for diabetes are taken just before
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food so when you take the medication and
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you don't eat that means the sugar in
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your system is going to go low that is
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the most common cause of hypoglycemia in
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people living with diabetes you know
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taking medications and not eating
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another thing is exercise to exercising
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too much you know there's a video I did
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on Diabetes Meats the meats that
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surround up it is and we talked about
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exercising you know when you're in a
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sports activity as a diabetic individual
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you need to work very closely with uh
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with your video doctor you know so that
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you can be able to monitor your sugars
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very closely too much exercising what
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does exercising do to your body it leads
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to burning of the calories you know the
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sugars are going down in town when
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you're diabetic and you're engaging in
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too much of exercises there's a very
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huge risk of getting into hypoglycemia
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we're not saying that you shouldn't
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engage in sports activities but you
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should work closely with someone who can
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be able to monitor your blood glucose
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very very well another common thing that
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can lead to hypoglycemia is using your
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insulin uh in the wrong way you know
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using too much of it you know the work
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of insulin insulin is a hormone produced
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by the pancreas the the work of insulin
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is to help get the sugar from the
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bloodstream into your cells and muscle
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solution gets energy to to do your day
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and Day activities so for a patient to
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the beaches we already say there's a
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there's either insulin deficiency
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complete insulin deficiency or there is
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insulin resistance you know the body is
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producing the insulin by the cells are
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resistance if there are so many uh
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causes anything that's around insulin in
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your own insulin therapy and you're over
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use using it that means the sugar in
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your system is going to go it's going to
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take all the sugar in your system and
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then you go into hypoglycemia start to
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faint you know you start to produce
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Consciousness so another thing is your
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diet is very low in carbohydrates uh I
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did a video on it is a low carbohydrate
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diet good for patients with diabetes and
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the answer is yes only with
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healthy sources of complex carbohydrates
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you know healthy sources of proteins
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healthy sources of fats you don't want
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to to go into completely known
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carbohydrates because when you do that
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then that means there is no glucose in
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your body at all you know the body can
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still burn the proteins in the fats for
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for for for for energy that's that's
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something but the body also needs
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glucose you know foreign
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carbohydrates completely is also one of
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the causes of hypoglycemia you'll go
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into hypoglycemia their sugars will go
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down so that is also another cause of
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hypoglycemia common or less common I
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don't know but alcohol consumption
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alcohol consumptions lead to
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hypoglycemia and for patients who are
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living with diabetes we encourage you to
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find ways to moderate your uncle intake
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or stop alcohol intake completely and
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lastly is mixing medications when you're
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in insulin therapy also taking oral
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medications you're taking too much
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medications for the same type of
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condition then what is going to happen
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is that all these drugs are working to
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lower your sugars and when you're mixing
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them without knowledge then you may end
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up getting to that you might end up
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risking your life through hypoglycemia
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so
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discover that the causes of hypoglycemia
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rotate around medication in your food
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that is why we did a whole video on what
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should a diabetic individual eat what is
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recommended for the diabetic individual
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and knowing when to eat when taking
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medication is going to help you a big
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deal in preventing hypoglycemia
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hypoglycemia is very very bad like I've
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already said as much as hyperglycemia is
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is bad but hypoglycemia is very bad so
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when you get into hypoglycemia what is
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going to happen is that then if the
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patient is awake you can be able to give
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two sugary sugary snacks like like soda
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like something sugar like a banana like
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glucose you know just something to to
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raise the blood glucose very fast but if
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the patient is unconscious what are you
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going to do you're going to go the ivy
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way just to make sure the sugars go back
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up and the patient is be able to eat it
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and the patient gets too stable and if
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the patient is stable then you encourage
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the patient to eat no we have discussed
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about hypoglycember about hypoglycemia
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hypoglycemia is very common and that is
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what um describes diabetes mellitus that
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the group of diseases characterized by
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elevated blood glucose levels now
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hypoglycemia sense of hypoglycemia
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are same as hypoglycemia because
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um
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a hypoglycemic patient you realize
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confusion you realize lack of
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concentration irritability you know
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sweating a lot of sweating
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you know and sometimes even getting into
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an unconscious State what causes
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hypoglycemia hypoglycemia also rotates
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around the food and medication when you
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don't take your medication and you are
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diabetes hypoglycemia
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with kicking when you eat too much foods
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that have too much sugar like you know
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they processed carbohydrates then
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hyperglycemia will kick in when you eat
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too many times in a day
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hypoglycemia May kick in so what in
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short what are we talking about here to
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prevent hypoglycemia it's just to
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maintain your normal meal times
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maintain your normal times of medication
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three meals in a day and healthy snacks
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in between should help you prevent
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unhealthy snacking you know balance that
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you know we have talked about the the
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portion control using the plate model
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the hand size uh decayed
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push on control and taking notifications
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um as recommended should help you
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prevent hypoglycemia leave your
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hypoglycemia hypoglycemia let us talk
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