Sentences with phrase «than glucose for»

This is from where the diet gets its name, and ketosis is a state in which the body makes use of fat rather than glucose for fuel.

Muscles and other tissues in your body use ketones rather than glucose for energy metabolism when you are not consuming many carbs.

This is because your brain is using more ketones rather than glucose for energy.

A low carb, high fat diet puts patients into nutritional ketosis, a metabolic state of burning fat and using ketones rather than glucose for energy.

Not exact matches

Intarcia has completed several late - stage clinical trials in which it uses the pump to deliver a glucose - controlling drug continuously for months — an idea, that if successful (and approved by the FDA) could significantly help patients with type 2 diabetes, fewer than half of whom maintain the recommended glycemic levels.

The prototype, which Google says will take at least five years to reach consumers, is one of several medical devices being designed by companies to make glucose monitoring for diabetic patients more convenient and less invasive than the traditional finger pricks.

A California company called Dexcom connected a continuous glucose monitor (a device that had been around for more than a decade) wirelessly to a smartphone (or smart watch), allowing the user to read, plot, and share blood sugar levels with anyone, at five - minute intervals, all day long — and sending an alert when patients were at risk.

Rather than being used by muscles for energy, the glucose is redirected to fat cells.

Dexcom reported higher than expected revenue for the March quarter as it prepares for a major launch of its next generation continuous glucose monitor.

• Health Canada has approved Sunfiber for use as a dietary fiber source, based on clearly demonstrated safety and clinical evidence that the addition of Sunfiber to foods, results in more than 20 percent reduction in postprandial blood glucose levels.

Sukrin Melis dissolves more easily than regular Sukrin, and is suitable for: Cakes and desserts that are not baked (for example, cheesecake) Baked goods Cream cheese icing, buttercream Glace icing, made with water, milk, lemon juice or egg white * Iced tea and other cold drinks Smoothies Decorating and dusting Made of erythritol, which is made from glucose extracted from non-GM corn starch through a natural fermentation process.

For example if you ate an apple, it would have a slower rate of glucose absorption than a glass of apple juice.

Because digestion of lactose is much slower than of glucose and fructose, lactose is considered relatively safe for diabetics.

That different energy source is ketones and is the only other known fuel source for the brain other than glucose.

Most endurance athletes are already consuming more than just glucose: Sports drinks, for example, contain glucose and fructose.

If your HbA1c is higher than this, you would benefit from getting your blood glucose under better control before you conceive to reduce the risk of complications for you and your baby.

Since the baby gets more glucose than he needs for growth, he makes extra insulin to remove it from his bloodstream.

God, I hope that glucose numbers for babies have a much lower floor than adults because I've had students with blood sugar levels between 30 - 50.

Glucose is the fuel for neurons, and the cells consume more glucose when they are active than when they are aGlucose is the fuel for neurons, and the cells consume more glucose when they are active than when they are aglucose when they are active than when they are at rest.

(For comparison, a normal fasting glucose is less than 100, and diabetesis anything over 126.)

«For it to be a truly autonomous system,» Damiano says, «it needs some way to raise blood - glucose levels other than just turning off insulin, [the effect of] which is ever so slow.

«We reasoned that since glucose is considerably sweeter than lactose or galactose, bacteria that release glucose into the product could allow for a reduction in of added sugar while maintaining the desired sweetness in the yogurt.»

The mice had higher glucose levels than the control group for 30 minutes after exposure to glucose.

Healthy cells use most of their glucose «fuel» to produce energy, rather than for building components of new cells, such as fats and DNA.

For more than a decade, scientists have been working to figure out how poppies convert glucose into the precursors for morphine and other opiate druFor more than a decade, scientists have been working to figure out how poppies convert glucose into the precursors for morphine and other opiate drufor morphine and other opiate drugs.

Aside from the pain and inconvenience, such occasional blood sampling is less than ideal for maintaining healthy glucose levels.

The researchers found that the Type I diabetic mice that received the modified insulin and blood cell system were able to significantly reduce blood glucose levels for more than two days.

Variants that increase the chance of obesity or high blood pressure, for example, appear to boost CHD risk more strongly than variants that alter insulin or glucose levels.

Because gadolinium is larger than glucose it only detects 70 to 80 percent of high grade tumors — those with major disruption of the BBB, i.e. with holes large enough for gadolinium to penetrate.

«The dose of D - glucose is similar to that used for diabetes testing and is much cheaper than the metallic agents.»

It measures glucose, lactate, potassium and sodium ions, and can transmit the data via Bluetooth wireless technology for more than an hour before it needs recharging.

Of note, the plasma glucose values obtained for our untreated Tg - hIAPP animals were a bit lower than those reported by Janson et al. (1996).

For the purposes of this study, «intensive treatment» was defined as being treated with more glucose - lowering medications than clinical guidelines consider necessary given a patient's HbA1C level.

Because fructosamine and glycated albumin are measures of short - term (2 - 4 week) glucose control and change more rapidly than HbA1c, they could also be useful for monitoring changes in diabetes treatments.

Follow - up work in cell cultures by King's lab showed that this defensive role for PKC - delta is triggered by high levels of lipids rather than glucose.

In a follow - up study, Pickens et al. showed that despite inducing the same overall level of hepatic fat accumulation, fructose was more effective than glucose at inducing hepatocellular injury in mice fed MCD diets for 21 days (16).

A, Percent of women (pink) and men (blue)(age 25 +) with fasting glucose more than or equal to 126 mg / dL (7.0 mmol / L) or on medication for raised blood glucose (age - standardized estimate) in 2014 (348).

More than 50 million Americans have pre-diabetes, a condition characterized by elevated blood glucose levels and which puts these individuals at high risk for developing T2D.

Carbs are the body's go - to fuel for workouts lasting less than 40 minutes, so optimising intensity depends on either ready (just consumed) glucose or glycogen, which is how glucose is stored in muscles and the liver.

And, ketones are a lot more efficient for your brain functioning than glucose.

Whole wheat pasta is far healthier than white pasta as it contains 3 times more fiber, less simple sugars, and more nutrients, making it the perfect pasta choice for diabetics or people that want to keep their blood glucose levels low.

People who aim for — and achieve — such intensive glucose control are much less likely to lose their vision, have kidney failure, develop heart disease, or need an amputation than those who don't, according to a study published Monday in Archives of Internal Medicine.

As a cofactor for more than 300 enzyme systems, magnesium also plays a role in blood glucose management, blood pressure, hormone production, and energy production.

Although your brain is more dependent on glucose than your heart, your liver can produce a ketone - like compound that your brain can efficiently use for energy

«If we're consuming carbohydrates at a faster rate than our bodies are utilizing them for energy, that extra glucose gets stored in the fat cells of the liver, which decreases its ability to break down excess estrogen and allowing it to hang around in our systems longer than it should.

For example, the structure of fructose makes it sweeter than glucose and galactose, but also decreases its absorption compared to glucose and galactose.

More glucose than what the body needs for energy or glycogen is converted to triglycerides in the liver and stored as a more permanent energy storage compound — body fat.

For people with diabetes sugars do not produce a greater glucose response (glycemic index) than complex carbohydrates.

«Lower - intensity exercise digs deeper into your fat stores for the primary source of energy, rather than your carbohydrates and glucose sources.

When we switch from burning glucose to burning ketones for energy, the blood sugar and insulin fluctuate much less than when we rely on carbohydrates for energy.