Sentences with phrase «delivers glucose to cells»

Insulin is a hormone secreted by the pancreas that delivers glucose to cells.

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If they deprive the RPE of lactate, then those cells switch to burning the glucose instead of delivering it to the retina, the team reports this month in eLife.

Carbs help deliver glucose to the muscle cells, which speeds up the delivery of nutrients (like protein) to the broken down muscle tissue.

Chromium is the «forgotten» mineral that helps deliver glucose to the inside of cells.

But making the body run on ketones means that it will become more sensitive to any glucose you take in from carbs — you won't need as much insulin to deliver it to your cells, and that provides a big relief to your pancreas.

Your small intestine picks up glucose, pushing it out into your bloodstream where it gets delivered to cells throughout your body.

«Whole foods stabilize your blood sugar and help you avoid energy spikes and crashes by delivering a slow, steady supply of glucose, which provides energy to every cell in your body.»

Epinephrine increases our heart rate to enable our blood to deliver nutrients faster to our cells, stimulates our lungs to breathe faster, and triggers our cells to produce more glucose to keep up with the sudden increase in energy demand should there not be enough carbohydrate storage.

Insulin is the hormone your body uses to deliver energy (in the form of glucose) to your cells.

Likewise, higher and higher amounts of insulin to deliver glucose as fuel to your cells burn out your pancreas.

In either case, glucose is not delivered effectively to the cells, and instead remains in high concentrations in the bloodstream.