Sentences with phrase «glucose out of the bloodstream»

Type 2 diabetes occurs when the body doesn't use insulin as it should or when the pancreas doesn't make enough insulin to ferry glucose out of the bloodstream and into the cells.

(Insulin's job is the help process glucose out of the bloodstream, and decrease the liver's glucose production.)

Insulin is the hormone that drives glucose out of the bloodstream and into cells, and diabetes is the loss of the ability to control blood glucose levels.

Classic type 2 diabetes is basically a failure to clear glucose out of the bloodstream and into the muscles and liver after eating a glucose - heavy meal.

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Once glucose from the food you eat is absorbed into your bloodstream blood glucose levels go up and your pancreas starts secreting insulin to help get that sugar out of your bloodstream and into your brain and muscles where it is needed (after all, it is not safe to have high blood sugar levels.)

If you're partaking in a lower carb type of diet your liver will convert the stored glycogen into glucose and then release it into your bloodstream, then when out of glycogen, it will convert fat and protein for energy.

Insulin takes away any surplus glucose your body creates out of your bloodstream and takes it to the liver, the muscles or deposits it in the form of fat tissue.

Faced with a life or death situation, cortisol increases the flow of glucose (as well as protein and fat) out of your tissues and into the bloodstream in order to increase energy and physical readiness to handle the stressful situation or threat.

Your body uses insulin to transport blood sugar (glucose) out of the bloodstream to be either utilized by muscle as energy or stored as fat.

The same happened with the production of GLUT4 [a protein in cells that glucose absorbs out of the bloodstream].

This is not helpful when your adrenals are overextended as about 90 min to 2 hours after you eat a meal your bloodstream runs low on glucose, meaning you've run out of the sugars you consumed.

This occurs in a number of ways, including reduction of glucose absorption, slowing down of carbohydrate digestion, stimulating the pancreas to produce more insulin, and stimulating insulin receptors so that more sugar flows out of our bloodstream and into our cells.

This is because some of those carbs that are converted to fats wind up being deposited first the liver, then in organs and tissue around the waistline creating «bellyfat» (or, as Dr. William Davis terms it «Wheatbelly» due to the particularly insidious glucose spike caused by wheat consumption) while the rest of those VLD's and Triglycerides are spit out and circulating in the bloodstream and wind up on your blood panel!