Hypoglycemia is when your blood sugar levels falls below the lowest number that is considered normal, in U.S. is 80 mg/dl, and drop this low almost on a daily basis.Low blood sugar doesn't stay low all the time. It reacts to food and is called reactive hypoglycemia. The other type is non reactive or fasting hypoglycemia. This type is less common and is the result of some hidden problem with the sugar storage and maintenance in the liver. But the one type we are going to look at is reactive hypoglycemia which is the most common. When the blood sugar drops below normal there are symptoms to let you know there is a problem in your body. The panic bottom has been pushed because sugar is very important. Your brain will enter in shock if your sugar drops to low. Sugar is power. That is why you eat. Your car run on gasoline but your body runs on sugar. The sugar in your blood should always be there to take constantly especially from the brain which run on sugar.

To recognize the existence of reactive hypoglycemia you need to first experiencing symptoms of it. And many people do but instead of treating the condition many doctors are treating the symptoms. The most generalized symptoms are blurred vision, fatigue, shakiness, migraine headaches, lack of concentration, confusion, irritability and hunger. Which symptoms are you going to experience varies from person to person. Usually the symptoms follow after two hours of having eaten a rich carbohydrate meal or just having missed breakfast or a meal. What is really happening is an insulin malfunction due to bad eating habits. The pancreas is releasing insulin too quick because we are eating carbohydrates constantly. It will come a moment that the pancreas will release too much insulin in trying to bring the sugar to balance. The pancreas is able to deal with excess carbohydrates occasionally but when it becomes a real bad habit and the abuse is constant and a lot, that beautiful organ will start malfunctioning like everything in life when we engage in abuse.

Now, is the doctor going to try to figure out why are you experiencing those symptoms and give you some advise? Most of the time they will treat the symptoms and you will be suffering of hypoglycemia symptoms until it will turn into diabetes and now is double trouble. It will turn into diabetes when your insulin becomes a substance of very low quality and is not able to remove the blood sugar back to normal. The best thing you could do is to find a doctor that treat the condition of hypoglycemia and have him diagnose you first. The way they diagnose you is by giving you a large dose of liquid glucose while fasting and every two hours checking your sugar level. If you are hypoglycemic your sugar will go kind of high and then come down crashing. I have heard some doctors checking the sugar level at the office once and come up with the diagnosis that a patient is not hypoglycemic. When your sugar go crashing down is the first signal that you have a sugar imbalance that later on can turn into diabetes.

The best treatment is balancing your meals. You need to give a rest to your pancreas and stop eating too much of the good stuff. We need to moderate ourselves. Start eating those eggs more often and don't believe the hype that cholesterol in food is the problem. This is another theme for another article but to give you a hint, 80 percent of the cholesterol in the blood comes from the liver and 20 percent from food. There are also bad eating habits, usually the same that causes hypoglycemia, that trigger the liver to overproduce cholesterol. Eat less carbohydrates and more protein and green vegetables. Eat fruits but don't stuff yourself with them. Again, moderation.

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