PCOS, which affects one in 10 women of childbearing age, also disrupts the way the body uses insulin.3This hormone is responsible for converting glucose (sugar) into energy. If your body becomes insulin-resistant, the sugars and starches you consume are stored as fat instead of turned into f...
Elevated blood glucose is not yet diabetes, but depending on how our lifestyle continues, diabetes will or will not develop. If sugar levels are elevated chronically, and our pancreas is stimulated all the time, its reserves will be depleted quickly. Not necessarily after a year, but, for ...
In diabetes, there is a lack of enough insulin in our body. Insulin is required to open the so-called glucose gates of our cells so that that glucose can enter the body's cells. Being insulin deficit, body tissues cannot optimally utilize glucose. There is high blood glucose levels, but ...
Aloe vera, which comes from the succulent plant by the same name, has many medicinal properties. There is a few proof that aloe vera can improve fasting blood glucose levels and should even improve hemoglobin A1C. Most specialists agree more analysis is required to confirm the bene...
An analysis of racial differences in body habitus, lipid metabolism and the serum insulin response to an oral glucose load - DC, Wein, et al. - 1993 () Citation Context ... (27). In contrast, it is overweight Caucasian women who tend to have more severe disease. Asian-born women with...
In pregnant women, there is high fetal glucose consumption and demand hence the risk of maternal and fetal hypoglycemia, especially during fasting. Hypoglycemia in neonates For premature and low birth weight infants, enzymes of gluconeogenesis are not yet fully developed and more susceptible to hypogly...
When insulin levels are elevated, the body is in an anabolic or “growth” mode — a good thing when you need to fuel your body for a hard effort, are aiming to gain muscle, or are at an age when your body is still growing. However, being in that anabolic state too long or too ...
There is increasing evidence that elevated postprandial plasma glucose (PPG) exerts a more deleterious effect on the vascular system than elevation of fasting plasma glucose (FPG). In particular, individuals with normal FPG but impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) have significantly increased risk of cardi...
Fasting “Novelty” Behaviors My guess is I am not the only one that initially used fasting to justify some poor nutritional behaviors. For the first year (give or take) the novelty of fasting provided some misguided motivation to exploit my fast breaker meal in unhealthy ways. My favorite “...
However, more recently, she has cut back on the fruit in her smoothies, after experimenting with a continuous blood glucose monitor, and finding that the fruit elevated her blood glucose higher than she wanted. Whilst she hasn’t (yet) listed all the new smoothie recipes she’s using, she...