After eating carbs, the body turns up the 'stress signal' to blood vessels, but the vessels still open up instead of tightening—meaning the body’s normal 'squeeze' signal isn’t strong enough to block the opening.

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Carbohydrate ingestion, with transient endogenous insulinaemia, produces both sympathetic activation and vasodilatation in normal humans.

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Human

2002 May

Even though eating carbs made the body’s 'stress signals' to blood vessels go up, the blood vessels still widened more — meaning the widening won out, not the stress signals.

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Carbohydrate ingestion, with transient endogenous insulinaemia, produces both sympathetic activation and vasodilatation in normal humans.

Score: 37

DOI: 10.1042/CS1020523

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