Sentences with phrase «longer use glucose»

The brain can no longer use glucose as fuel, but the coconut oil allows the body to produce ketones as an alternate brain fuel.

Nearly a year into his experiment, though, changes in his other omic data suggested that his body was no longer using glucose properly.

If during a period of fasting the body no longer uses glucose as fuel, and starts to use fatty acids instead, stem cells get an incentive to rejuvenate old and damaged tissues.

By eating a diet high in healthy fats, the idea is to reach a state of ketosis, meaning the body is no longer using glucose for energy.

Not exact matches

Some of us have to consider health as well as taste (I use a low carb diet to maintain normal blood glucose instead of taking diabetes drugs, while at the same time I focus on foods that have a long tradition of supporting healthy populations, as well as limit processed «fake food» ingredients which are novel to the human diet).

Diabetes is a life - long condition where the amount of glucose in the blood is too high because the body can not use it properly.

To find these patterns, researchers used to expose rats to an odor for 45 minutes — an unnaturally long time — then kill them and look for changes in the uptake by the olfactory bulb of a labeled form of glucose, which indicates neuronal activity.

Because high blood glucose levels can lead to a long list of serious health problems — glaucoma, nerve damage and heart disease, to name a few — diabetics must test their glucose levels several times each day, typically using a lancing device to pierce a fingertip and draw blood.

The newborn brain principally uses glucose for energy and prolonged hypoglycemia has been associated with poor long - term neurodevelopment and neurocognition.

They do, but it's also good to use glucose - based fuels, because they help keep the fat - burning apparatus working for longer.

Several studies reviewed indicated that using yoga as therapy combated insulin resistance by improving fasting glucose (with improvements ranging from a 5.4 % to a 33.4 % decrease in fasting glucose levels), postprandial glucose levels (blood sugar levels after meals), and glycohemoglobin levels (a measure of the long - term control of diabetes mellitus).

However, ketosis only occurs once the body no longer has the means to use carbohydrates or more pointedly glucose as its first choice energy source.

When you start a low carb diet, the more commonly used glucose fuel is suddenly no longer available.

Initially, you might also experience occasional low blood sugar levels, simply because the body is used to releasing a certain amount of insulin to take care of the glucose, which is suddenly no longer available in high amounts.

The glucose is thus used for glycogen formation in liver and muscles, andit then used either as a short - term energy source, or it is transformed into fat that represents a long - term energy source.

There are three ways insulin is used: basal insulin is long - acting or intermediate acting, and covers the glucose the liver makes in - between meals and during sleep; bolus insulin, used for meals is usually a rapid - acting or short - acting insulin; and, correction insulin which is rapid - acting.

Any carbohydrates not immediately used by the body will be stored in the form of glycogen (a long string of glucose molecules linked together).

This metabolic adaptation to nutritional availability was set during extremely ancient times shortly after life began around 4 billion years ago and long before fat was used as a fuel, long before paleolithic man, when glucose dominated the oceans and was what to eat.

L - carnitine helps the heart and skeletal muscles to efficiently use fats (especially long - chain fatty acids) and glucose as a fuel [2].

As long as the blood glucose level stays low, it will continue to use ketones as the energy source.

Gynnostemma drives excess glucose out via the bladder and can cause infection there if used long term, I understand.

«With Type 2 diabetes, your body can no longer make or use insulin, the hormone which helps the body regulate glucose levels,» Dr. Sheri Colberg, a professor of human movement sciences at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., specializing in exercise as it relates to diabetes told the WSJ.

When your body becomes insulin resistant, though, it's like the locks get changed and insulin can no longer shuttle the glucose in your blood into your cells for use.

In the liver, it is reformed into long chains called glycogen, which is a storage form of glucose (plants use amylopectin and amylose, animals use glycogen).

This data suggests a different effect of ketosis on glucose homeostasis in diabetic and non-diabetic individuals.21 Other studies support the long - term efficacy of ketogenic diets in managing complications of T2D.36, 37 Although significant reductions in fat mass often results when individuals restrict carbohydrate, the improvements in glycaemic control, haemoglobin A1c and lipid markers, as well as reduced use or withdrawal of insulin and other medications in many cases, occurs before significant weight loss occurs.

Fats take longer to be tapped into since your body must first use glucose for energy.

Fast twitch muscles are able to metabolize using both aerobic and anaerobic pathways, utilizing glycogen and glucose for immediate, short bursts of energy and fat for longer, sustained energy.

ProZinc is a protamine zinc insulin, a type of long - acting insulin derived from recombinant human insulin used to reduce hyperglycemia (high blood glucose or sugar) in cats with diabetes mellitus.

If his glucose level is in the rage of 20 to 40 he will no longer be used for hunting.

Diabetes mellitus is a disease in which the body can no longer appropriately manage the use of glucose for its energy requirements.

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).

The nation's gamble in embracing new drugs for long - term use with only short - term clinical testing was most apparent in the rapid acceptance into clinical practice of a new class of oral diabetes drugs called sodium - glucose cotransporter - 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors.