[Nathan Zachary]

"No, the bartender put sugar in the sangria I was drinking. Unfortunately it will probably be a few months until I can afford a blood test."

What? That's ridiculous. Find a diabetic and ask him/her to test your glucose. Or, just spend 50 bucks and buy a glucose monitor. If he said you were close to a coma, that means your sugar was dangerously low. 4 mol and under (3 mol is pass out time for most) When your sugar levels are that low all the time, your body starts producing glucose from your liver, which is a really bad thing. That's what causes fat to build up in your abdomen around your liver and intestines.

[aruanan]

When your sugar levels are that low all the time, your body starts producing glucose from your liver, which is a really bad thing. That's what causes fat to build up in your abdomen around your liver and intestines.

When faced with a lack of sufficient carbohydrates in the diet, the human body breaks down protein (mostly from muscle) and uses so-called glucogenic amino acids in the glucose cycle and ketogenic amino acids in the fatty acid cycle, but this doesn't cause the buildup of omental fat.

[wastedyears]

I was close to a coma due to my TSH and T3 or T4 levels being off the charts in the wrong directions.