Metabolic Reset

Hypoglycemic Reset Tea

Shopping List

• Lime or Lemons
• Organic Maple Syrup (Grade B)
• Green Tea

Recipe

Your drink is made-up of freshly squeezed lime and/or lemon with the pulp, water, organic maple syrup
(grade B is preferred), and brewed green tea.

• Exact proportions are not critical.
• Can be iced, room temperature or hot.
• You can make the drink as sour or diluted as you would like.
• You must take sips of the drink as frequent as every 15 minutes throughout the day.
• Exact timing of the sips are not critical.
• It is important to know you will drink and urinate all day.

If you are taking sips all day, you should be able to stabilize your blood sugar without any foods. If you

become hungry, you are allowed to eat food,

The limitation of food is important because you are trying to decrease the antigen (foreign compound) load

to your immune system. Many individuals that have their neuroendocrine-immune system overactive are

usually sensitive to the foods that you eat most often.

The reason lime and lemon juice are used is to alkalize your body. Organic grade B maple syrup is

suggested because it is sweeter than other grades, and therefore less maple syrup is needed to

antagonize the sour taste.

Green tea can be added to the mixture if preferred. Hot green tea is permitted to drink all day.

Hypoglycemic Unawareness

Patients with Insulin Resistance are likely to have impaired awareness of their hypoglycemia, termed
Hypoglycemia Unawareness (HU).¹Cryer PE. Mechanisms of sympathoadrenal failure and hypoglycemia in diabetes. J Clin Invest. 2006 Jun;116(6):1470-3. doi: 10.1172/JCI28735. ²Cryer PE. Mechanisms of hypoglycemia-associated autonomic failure and its component syndromes in diabetes. Diabetes. 2005 Dec;54(12):3592-601. doi: 10.2337/diabetes.54.12.3592. PMID: 16306382. ³Cryer PE. Diverse causes of hypoglycemia-associated autonomic failure in diabetes. N Engl J Med. 2004 May 27;350(22):2272-9.doi: 10.1056/NEJMra031354. PMID: 15163777.

Women are more prone to this problem because they have reduced counter-regulatory responses and reduced symptoms. HU is the reduction of neurogenic symptoms at a given level of hypoglycemia. If patients are unable to recognize that they are hypoglycemic, they will not take measures to increase their blood sugar levels, such as ingesting carbohydrates. Thus, patients with prolonged Insulin Resistance and Portal Hypertension are at increased risk for experiencing severe hypoglycemic events.
The strongest risk factor for future hypoglycemia is the number of prior hypoglycemic events;

⁴Hypoglycemia in the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial. The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial Research Group. Diabetes. 1997 Feb;46(2):271-86. PMID: 9000705. that is, individuals who have experienced previous hypoglycemia are at greater risk for future hypoglycemia. The reason for this, is that a prior episode of hypoglycemia impairs the body’s response to subsequent hypoglycemia. The most compelling support for HAAF is that in as little as 2–3 wk of scrupulous avoidance of hypoglycemia reverses hypoglycemia unawareness and improves the reduced epinephrine vasomotor component of defective glucose counter regulation in most affected individuals.⁵Cryer PE. Diverse causes of hypoglycemia-associated autonomic failure in diabetes. N Engl J Med. 2004 May 27;350(22):2272-9.

References

• 1
  Cryer PE. Mechanisms of sympathoadrenal failure and hypoglycemia in diabetes. J Clin Invest. 2006 Jun;116(6):1470-3. doi: 10.1172/JCI28735.
• 2
  Cryer PE. Mechanisms of hypoglycemia-associated autonomic failure and its component syndromes in diabetes. Diabetes. 2005 Dec;54(12):3592-601. doi: 10.2337/diabetes.54.12.3592. PMID: 16306382.
• 3
  Cryer PE. Diverse causes of hypoglycemia-associated autonomic failure in diabetes. N Engl J Med. 2004 May 27;350(22):2272-9.doi: 10.1056/NEJMra031354. PMID: 15163777.
• 4
  Hypoglycemia in the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial. The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial Research Group. Diabetes. 1997 Feb;46(2):271-86. PMID: 9000705.
• 5
  Cryer PE. Diverse causes of hypoglycemia-associated autonomic failure in diabetes. N Engl J Med. 2004 May 27;350(22):2272-9.