Blood glucose consumption with self regulatory tasks

Galliot at all show that exerting self regulation reduces blood sugar levels.

There are two possible theoreis as tohow this happens.
Galliot offers it is the glucose consumption in the brain.
I suggest that it is rather some physiological bodily reaciton that consumes much energy or maybe changes hormonal balance and reducing blood sugar in other routes. This is supported by the intuition that the brain is not going to take so much fuel to reduce significantly blood sugar, even if one is self regulating.


The simplest way is to do brain scans while Ss are self regulating and see whether sugar consumptin is higher.
This can be done with cheap methods of brain scanning, because we do not need a calibrated picture of brain activity. We merely need blood flow and sugar consumption which is a relatively crude question.

A more elaborated research would track moment by moment all parameters, i.e. blood sugar, bodily reacitons of various kinds. and Try to see in reality the dynamic of the ego depletion process. John Gottman did a momemnt ot moment analysis of couple interacitons and got unbelievaby fascinaitng results (predicting marriage stability 15 years in advance with 90% accuracy based on 15 minutes couple interaction).

If you wise to do that and want more detail ideas or help contact me, and I will happily halep and discuss the idea. yzilber AT g-m-a-i-l