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Have'nt you guys ever heard of Hydra fuel by twin lab, or excel, exceed, and a dozen other dilute electrolyte and light carb replacement drinks? If you are afraid of this stuff, don't leave the armchair quarterbacking :-) Regards, Dan -----Original Message----- From: EE Atikkan [mailto:atikkan@ix*.ne*.co*] Sent: Monday, February 15, 1999 6:13 PM To: cavers@cavers.com Subject: Fwd: sugar intake... was: in all seriousness Interesting as it could B the manifest of a ying-yang effect. Glu per say has been implicated in neurol oxtox. Intake of glu also causes insulin increase. Thus if diver toxes when hypoglycemic, excess insulin could B the putative contributor (as well as a plethora of other factors). Just a thought. Esat Atikkan Tom Mercier wrote: And it makes me nervous that you are sugaring your divers in the water...I think you may be in for a suprise some day. George Irvine wrote: ...the reason we use glucose is that once you eat anything or take on ANY sugar in any form, the risk is that the blood sugar level will fall back below what it was to start with. Hypocglycemic responce... The resulting drop has been implicated in potentiating oxtox. Get me right here: I am saying that once you ingest any sugar, it must be continued every forty five minutes in the water to avoid this risk... Low blood sugar invites oxtox in the long exposures. Adding sugar means conitinuing to add sugar. I've been drinking gatorade during 2-3 hour dives (shallow) in the belief that keeping myself hydrated and keeping my blood sugar up would aid in maintaining energy and concentration and lower decompression risks. Would one or both of you say a bit more about dangers associated with sugar intake during dives?
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