Why Glucose Important Diabetics

Why is Glucose Important? - for Diabetics.

Why is Glucose Important? - for Diabetics

• Glucose is a building block of our bodily system, required to function properly and optimally.
• It is the main sugar found in the blood
• The body's main source of energy
• Also called blood glucose or blood sugar.
• Blood sugar concentration is an important factor in diabetes.

Here is the process and reasoning, rationale and logic, behind why blood sugar and related processes are and can be critically important:

• Sugar in the form of glucose is present in the blood
• Typically within the range of normality at 60 to 100 milligrams/ 100 milliliters of blood.
• Blood sugar typically rises after a meal to as much as 150 milligrams/l00 milliliters of blood (it will vary from person to person)
• Carbohydrates are digested, producing sugar
• This in turn circulates in the blood
• Our bodies use it as fuel and energy
• Absorption of the sugar into the cells is regulated by the hormone insulin (made in the pancreas)
• Insulin is then released when blood-sugar levels rise.
  

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