Phil, interesting experiment. I am using little amounts of honey myself, to sweeten up life a bit, although I think a couple of table spoons on empty stomach is a bit too much, no wonder it threw your BG out of balance
I've seen videos of reportedly healthy hunter-gatherers and traditional peoples consuming enormous quantities of honey/comb or mead in a single sitting, so I suspect that truly healthy folk don't experience the same sort of BG spikes and negative effects that many metabolically deranged moderners do--or maybe their bodies have other unknown mechanisms that prevent harm from BG spikes. Unfortunately, there's no profit in studying this, so it likely will never be thoroughly investigated.
(I wouldn't be able to eat it anyway, too sweat and stingy)
Heated honey, and even some unfermented raw honey, makes my throat sting and itch, but raw fermented honey never does, in any quantity. You might want to try other honeys, such as Really Raw fermented honey, before you assume that all give you sweating and stinging--though I can't promise you any benefits either and too much of even RF honey does have some other negative effects on me.
[quote[During the day I eat honey three times (not in one go)[/quote]I rarely consume honey more than once a day, and many days I eat none. However, some days I do eat more than 2 tbsps. I seem to handle up to about 2 tbsps without big BG spikes, though sometimes I consume more and don't get a spike and other times I consume less and do. It probably depends in part on what else I eat, and I've found that the same BG monitor can produce significantly different results on the same drop of blood (on 2 different test strips), so I tend to look more at the longer-run picture than focus on single results, though I do try to avoid BG spikes above 140-160, based on what multiple sources suggest.
When I eat more RF honey, I notice that my hair and scalp benefit, but if I eat it too many days in a row, I notice that some of my teeth start to loosen, so it's a balancing act. Oddly enough, I don't seem to get acne outbreaks from RF honey or wild Maine blueberries like I do from certain other fruits. Nature is incredibly complex.
Despite still eating rather LC many days, I never find RF honey to be too sweet, unlike heated honey and even some (unfermented) raw honeys. Even when I first tried RF honey while I was VERY LC, I didn't find it too sweet, whereas some other honeys, sweet heated wines, and other foods do taste too sweet to me. I can remember even before I went Paleo when a friend made a Kool-Aid-type drink for me, and I gagged. To me it tasted like Kool-Aid powder with a touch of water added, but to her it was perfect.
