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Diazoxide is only med prescribed to help hypoglycemia caused by endocrine tumors. If cornstarch worked they would have diabetics use it in low circumstances. The issue with endocrine tumors is insulin is being dumped by pancreas all the time even when not eating into system. Consequently liver never releases glycogen except when you eat to raise blood sugar. Because normally insulin release tells liver blood sugar is high don't release any glycogen to raise it.

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I have stage 4 NET pancreatitis to liver cancer. Also had trouble with sugar levels dropping dramatically. The doctors at Dane Farber in Boston recommended Corn Starch and it helped.
Not claiming that Corn Starch is the cure, but it helped to stabilize my sugars so it could be managed until liver tumors could be reduced.
It may not work for everyone, it definitely doesn’t work if you don’t try.
I mixed it with pudding and it was tasteless.