4/ This is why drinking on an empty stomach crashes people harder than drinking with food, alcohol hypoglycemia hits hours after you stop (not while drinking), and it’s genuinely dangerous for anyone on insulin or sulfonylureas.
1/ ALCOHOL DOESN’T SPIKE YOUR BLOOD SUGAR. IT CAN CRASH IT 6-12 HOURS LATER.
Your liver treats ethanol as an emergency to clear, and that job cannibalizes its ability to make new glucose. The actual chemistry:
3/ With NAD+ tied up, the liver can’t convert lactate to pyruvate or glycerol to glucose. Your liver’s backup glucose factory shuts off for as long as it’s processing alcohol, often 6-12+ hours after a few drinks.
No backup if glycogen is already low.
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