Sentences with phrase «converted by insulin»

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A new study by researchers at Sanford - Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford - Burnham) has found that a peptide called caerulein can convert existing cells in the pancreas into those cells destroyed in type 1 diabetes insulin - producing beta cells.

Eventually, the liver is damaged by excess insulin and stops converting thyroid hormone T4 to T3, causing low thyroid function and excess weight gain.

Once fructose is converted to glucose insulin is required for uptake by body cells.

Our bodies are resistant to the insulin response and that leaves sugar to float around in our blood stream and get converted to fat by the liver.

Also a cascade of other positive processes will be launched by the improved insulin sensitivity — the liver will not be stressed by constantly converting glucose into triglycerides and metabolism of nutrient for detoxification phase inside the liver will improve and so will the overall body detoxification.

When blood sugars plummet dramatically — as they always do after the insulin surge that accompanies high - carb eating — cortisol will rush to save the brain from «starvation» by sending a signal to convert amino and fatty acids into glucose (the brain's primary fuel).

If you were a really keen student in high school, you may remember that insulin takes sugar away from your blood and stores it in your liver and muscles by converting it to a molecule called «glycogen».

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/magres/research/diabetes/documents/BantingDiabeticMed.pdf In the fasting state, you're not consuming any food to be converted to glucose, but your liver is constantly producing glucose in order to keep your body functioning, unless that production is suppressed by insulin, which your pancreas releases in either a small steady amount or a large amount in response to food.

Grains are converted to sugar very quickly by the body, and when blood sugar spikes, so does insulin.

When levels are too high, the pancreas signals to your liver (by using the blood's favorite gang sign, insulin) that it needs to convert the excess fructose into glycogen.

Carbohydrates are converted in glucose by the body and, in turn, insulin is produced by the body that stores glucose in the form of fats in the body.

The faster a food is converted into blood sugar (e.g. with high G.I. foods), the higher the blood sugar levels get and the more insulin is secreted by the pancreas to help the cells of your body absorb the sugar.

Whether that glucose comes from carbohydrates, from protein via gluconeogenesis, or from glycerol (a byproduct of fatty acid metabolism), excess amounts in the blood stream that aren't immediately used are transported by insulin to muscle and liver cells and get converted to glycogen.

Insulin also increases the production of testosterone, which is then converted into even more estrogen by fat tissue in the belly.»

It is rapidly metabolised by the liver much like alcohol is and does not contribute to satiety or trigger the insulin response that glucose would, which means much of it ends up being converted to fat (the bad kind: pattern b LDL) in the liver which causes non-alcoholics fatty liver disease and consequently, metabolic syndrome.

Insulin is the hormone made by the pancreas that helps shuttle glucose into cells for energy use and converts excess glucose into fat; it is essential for metabolizing carbohydrates.

In addition, as far back as 2002, Dr Briffa pointed out in his book «Ultimate Health» other factors such as damaged fats, especially hydrogenated fats and trans - fatty acids, the presence of homocysteine and the importance of controlling insulin by avoiding and excess of refined foods and too much sugar or anything which converts quickly to sugar such as processed carbohydrates.

Insulin brings your blood sugar back down, but primarily by converting the excess sugar to stored fat.

Insulin, which is produced by «beta cells» in the pancreas, helps in the process of moving glucose into the cells of the body where it is converted into fuel.

Omnivores, carnivores, and cats in particular, are harmed by refined sugars and those derived from high glycemic index carbohydrates that the body converts into sugars, which then trigger insulin release and storage of the calories from sugars as fat.