Glucose
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As we consume our daily meals our body will break down the food into Glucose. Glucose is an essential part of fueling our body everything we do from thinking, sitting down, or exercise requires energy.For example, if you're a cyclist you need a meal with a lot of carbohydrates. Carbohydrates make energy in our body and is essential when you out your body through much movement. Glucose is a monosaccharide we have these particles running in our blood stream bring energy to our cells. When our body receives the glucose its stored in the liver as glycogen. Glycogen is also found in other parts of the body like a low concentration in our muscles. Glycogen is essential for the glucose cycle when you're under extreme stress or very hungry your body uses the stored glycogen as energy for the cells. Blood glucose is measured mg/dl they are tiny particles. A person without diabetes should have a 100 mg/dl of glucose in their system, it normal to have it a little high 2 hours after your next meal around 140 mg/dl.
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Glucose is the source your body needs to function, but it doesn't magically give you energy. Glucose need their pal insulin to unlock the cell so the cells can take up the glucose cells. Insulin unlocks the cells like a passage way to allow a certain amount of glucose in. Hyperglycemia when your blood sugar is high when little kids eat a lot of sugar they become very hyper their body has a large dose of sugar. Hyperglycemia has to be treated quickly because it could lead to serious complications in your body such as; Affecting your eyes, kidneys, nerves and worst of all heart health. Hyperglycemia may be causes by your own life style if you choose to do little physical activity or have poor diet choices. Hypoglycemia is the opposite which is low sugar in the body this happens when you get to busy in your normal day and you skip meal or two. If you have Hypoglycemia it may be caused from an insulin reaction or shock. Which is a sign that your cells aren't getting the insulin to unlock the cell so glucose can get in. If you go untreated you may have a seizure or past out. One way to treat Hypoglycemia is to add glycogen back into the body they recommend not to inject insulin into the body because it may cause more affects.
Health
Its important to know what you're putting into your body and what it may cause. Changing eating habits is your first step into preventing this. The next is excising your body needs to be in movement to use the energy so it doesn't just become another fat cell. Type 2 diabetes is more common than ever because of the high sugar foods we tend to consume on the daily the body is trying to maintain in homeostasis. Its hard for the body when you consume and consume but there isn't any physical activity happening. Every day your brain uses 120g/d of glucose which is 70% of what you eat. Its the equivalent to eating 250 M&Ms (khan). Glucose is essential for the whole body, You should always attempt to prevent these diseases.