One of the things that's fairly clear about fibromyalgia is that there is something distinctly odd going on with metabolic biochemistry. It feels to me (and this is an untested personal opinion) like there is something broken in the glycogen to glucose conversion pathway, resulting in the primary energy pathway being amino acid metabolism (hence the increased nitrogen byproducts of various kinds), instead of more normal glucose metabolism.
The result of that is what you describe - carbohydrate metabolism wouldn't do as much for you as for someone with "normal" biochemistry, because your body mostly isn't burning carbohydrates very well. What also matches is that fast exercise requires glycogen to glucose metabolism, because nothing else produces energy fast enough... Whilst slow exercise can make do with other sorts of metabolism.
What my answer is really boils down to, though, is try it and see. If you genuinely do feel better on a low-GI, higher protein, diet, then it is likely better for you. And definitely stick with gentle exercise.
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Re: Thanks for the info
Date: 2004-03-29 22:58 (UTC)The result of that is what you describe - carbohydrate metabolism wouldn't do as much for you as for someone with "normal" biochemistry, because your body mostly isn't burning carbohydrates very well. What also matches is that fast exercise requires glycogen to glucose metabolism, because nothing else produces energy fast enough... Whilst slow exercise can make do with other sorts of metabolism.
What my answer is really boils down to, though, is try it and see. If you genuinely do feel better on a low-GI, higher protein, diet, then it is likely better for you. And definitely stick with gentle exercise.