Jeffrey Bland, PhD, gives a Day 4 spoken update for a 14-day continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) study run by Big Bold Health. He recaps that Day 3 used a Himalayan Tartary buckwheat challenge (50 g digestible carbohydrate) which produced a flattened, slower glycemic response compared with a control day of white bread — attributed in part to high soluble fiber. Day 4 will test a Himalayan Tartary buckwheat shake mix (a nutritionally complete formulation with vitamins, minerals, protein, and phytochemicals) to compare its glycemic response; results are promised in the next update.
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Well, here we are, day four of our 14 day continuous glucose monitoring study, which we're all involved with here at Big Bull Health. You might recall yesterday was our Himalayan Tartery buckwheat day. We were all consuming this as our challenge. 50 grams of digestible carbohydrate. It turned out that that was a very, very interesting response. Using our, you know, continuous glucose monitoring device to look at the glycemic response when it was compared to our previous day, which was the control day with white bread. There is no question in anybody's mind that this flattens the glycemic index and makes it much more slow. In fact, part of we all learned that there's a tremendous amount of soluble fiber in Himalayan Turkey buckwheat, which also contributes to that very favorable glycemic response. So we've got our first data points now and today we're moving on day four to test the glycemic response of our Himalayan Tartery buckwheat shake mix. And this will be very interesting because this has a full panel of vitamins and minerals, protein, full nutrition value, and also all the phytochemicals that are found in Himalayan tartary buckwheat. So we are going to see how this compares in its glycemic response. So hold tight and we'll have the results to report to you tomorrow as a part of our study. Thanks.
