Sentences with phrase «how high the level of glucose»

No — your body produces the main sugar in your milk, lactose, in the breast, and the amount of sugars in your milk remain fairly constant no matter how high the level of glucose in your blood may be (Dewey et al., 1991).

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Because high fasting blood sugar level is a main characteristic of diabetes, the study findings suggest that the number of taste buds plays a role in glucose metabolism — how the body uses sugar — during aging, the authors proposed.

Researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA have discovered how high glucose levels — whether caused by diabetes or other factors — keep heart cells from maturing normally.

In this way, insulin sensitivity is defined by how much insulin is needed to store blood glucose within the cells of the body — healthy people need a much smaller amount of insulin to store a certain amount of glucose than insulin resistant individuals, and the latter have higher levels of both blood glucose and insulin.

Neurons seem to be the most sensitive cells to high glucose levels, and the severity of neuropathy in diabetes is correlated with how high blood glucose rises above 140 mg / dl in response to a glucose tolerance test.

Now for those of you that follow a high fat, lower carb diet, you can quickly see how lower levels of glutamine can be detrimental to your productivity if you don't have blood glucose in the picture.

Next we compared how the level of plasma glucose influenced the ability of visual food stimuli (high - calorie and low - calorie foods) to affect brain activation and wanting and liking of food (Figure 4).

This kind of testing tells the doctor how long the insulin injection is lasting as well as what the lowest and highest glucose levels of the day are.

The glucose curve indicates how long the dose of insulin is lasting (which in turn indicates whether the type of insulin being used is correct) and how high and low the glucose levels go (which in turn indicates if the dose being used is correct).