Question: Why would blood glucose go up on a low-carb diet? When you’re adapted to low insulin levels with lower GLUT expression, but you want to get glucose into muscle, you’re going to need higher blood glucose levels to do it. I think elevated blood glucose is sufficiently known to be pathological that it would …

Question: Why do thyroid levels drop on a low-carb diet? So insulin and leptin are both positive regulators of thyroid hormone, production, and conversion. And generally I do think there’s probably a larger effect from thyroid production than peripheral conversion. I’m not too sure about that, but insulin does directly regulate thyroid. It has TSH-like …

Question: Is hydrogen sulfide produced in the gut a bad thing, and what to do about it? I agree that most people that have this problem have some kind of deranged sulfur metabolism, but I don’t see why that makes it a physiological adaptation rather than a pathological condition. The correlation is probably a direct …

Question: What if low-carb makes me wake up to pee?  I would start by looking at your blood sugar. So I do think it’s possible that if your blood sugar. Second of all, it’s stimulated by salt. So salt at night might help. Third of all, in order to make it you need copper, vitamin …