taw comments on The Physiology of Willpower - Less Wrong

21 Post author: pjeby 18 June 2009 04:11AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (35)

You are viewing a single comment's thread.

Comment author: taw 18 June 2009 04:54:06AM 2 points [-]

Have you tried measuring your glucose levels?

Also if you do it wrong, frequent glucose spiking means insulin resistance means metabolic syndrome, and you really don't want that.

Comment author: thomblake 18 June 2009 02:44:32PM 5 points [-]

Personally, I'll take energy/mood swings over repeatedly stabbing myself. But if they manage to find a way to measure glucose without doing that, I'm all over it.

Comment author: SilasBarta 18 June 2009 05:53:56AM 2 points [-]

Have they solved the problem of glucose meters costing 10 cents and each test strip costing your firstborn yet?

Comment author: jimrandomh 18 June 2009 06:28:08AM 2 points [-]

Test strips currently cost about $1 each.

Comment author: pjeby 18 June 2009 05:24:11AM -1 points [-]

Also if you do it wrong, frequent glucose spiking means insulin resistance means metabolic syndrome, and you really don't want that.

Interesting link; I appear to have at least 5 of those 9 insulin resistance symptoms, and have had them pretty much since I got a car and stopped bicycling and walking everywhere. I think I just got a lot more motivation to exercise. ;-)