Blood Sugar: What Actually Happens After You Eat?
In Episode 3 of Inside Your Biology, we follow a meal through the body to understand how blood sugar is regulated and what changes when that system begins to lose efficiency.
We break down what glucose actually is, what insulin really does, how the liver stores and releases energy, why skeletal muscle plays such a major role in glucose disposal, and how glycogen, glucagon, beta cells, and fat tissue all fit into the picture.
Then we go deeper into:
insulin sensitivity, insulin resistance, compensatory hyperinsulinemia, fasting glucose, post-meal glucose, HbA1c, prediabetes, type 1 versus type…
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