Sentences with phrase «where glucose needs»

Nevertheless, once your muscle tissue is full of glycogen, there comes a point where glucose needs a different place to go.

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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.)

Mom might actually experience Ketosis where the muscles run out of the glucose needed to keep working.

People with type 1 diabetes need lifelong treatment with insulin, which helps transport the sugar glucose from the bloodstream into cells, where it serves as a key energy source.

The body then has to pump out more insulin to transport blood glucose to where it needs to be, and high levels of insulin promote greater fat storage.

When cells have extra protein they don't need, they send it to the liver, where it is either turned into glucose or urea.

So the glucose is already going where it needs to go because of the high cortisol.

Note, that the muscles first need energy, through glycolysis, where they break down glucose for energy - especially during high - intensity exercise.

Insulin is what carries the glucose all through your bloodstream and gets the converted energy to where it needs to go.

Now glucose is unable to enter into the cells where it's needed to make energy.

Findings published on the National Institutes Of Health website, Metabolic Effects of the Very - Low - Carbohydrate Diets: Misunderstood «Villains» of Human Metabolism, (Manninen et al) ascertains that reducing carb intake triggers a harmless physiological state known as ketosis, where ketones flow from the liver and spare the need for glucose metabolism providing an alternative source of fuel for the body.

There is no doubt, excessive carbohydrate consumption will make you feel tired and sluggish unless you are a marathon runner or an endurance athlete where you constantly need to replenish your glucose stores.

Glucose provides cellular fuel when it converts to adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the molecule that carries energy to where it is needed.

Then, glucose is transported through the bloodstream to these cells where it can be used to provide the energy the body needs for daily activities.

Insulin is needed for glucose to enter the cells, where it's used as energy.

Think of it like this: just as we may shout to make a deaf person hear, the body needs to make more insulin to drive glucose where it's supposed to go.

To determine whether dose adjustments are needed (or if a different type of insulin is more appropriate), your pet will need a glucose curve where blood sugar levels are monitored every 2 to 4 hours or so for 12 to 24 hours.