Does sugar have an affect on your heart rate?

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My resting heart rate is fairly high at the best of times but the other day it was racing uncomfortably, even though I had been sitting for around an hour. My watch was saying 105bpm which is obviously too high whilst resting.

I realised I had consumed quite a bit of sugar… could that have been the cause?
Has cutting out or lowering sugar ever helped in bringing down a resting heart rate?

I don’t know the answer but this happens to me too

Perhaps it’s just us? 😫😆

Yes for me too.
I don’t have a sweet tooth in general, but if I eat a lot of sugar in a short span I’ll feel it in my heart rate. And actually I’m am 49 now and hot flushes have started , I think I’m noticing an increase in hot flushes after I eat sugar so am cutting it out almost al together to see if it improves.

I think so... isn't that part of what's known as a sugar rush?

Smoothies make my heart race. So I don't have them. It may be natural sugar but it's a high dose of it.