glucose

What: "Blood glucose is like a "fire within us" that gives us energy. We must keep the flame lit, but we also want it to be controlled, "a friendly fire," and not a blazing fire that is out of control." Yes another comparison to fire. The key point of the comparison is balance; too little is not good, but neither is too much. This is applicable to so much of life

Writer: Ellis Toussier

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Date: Oct 30 2011 12:53 PM

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"Pretend that a single glucose molecule (the basic sugar that our body metabolizes for energy) is a lego. If I wanted to store all my legos, I could keep them loosely in a box. However, the body likes to be neat so instead of just tossing them in there, our body will connect the legos into stacks (polymerization) for storage in order to save space as well as keep them separate from the free legos which I want to use for energy immediately."

Writer: Anothershad0w

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Date: Dec 29 2014 6:47 PM

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"Too much glucose in your blood is like too many Catholic priests at an altar boy jamboree. Somebody's going to get screwed. And who gets screwed in the case of too much glucose is you. So how do you treat it? Just like little Dominic, who won't be able to sit on any hard surfaces for a while, you take the diabetes to court and sue its ass for a million point five."

This, of course, is joke, but it may
help some people understand that chronic
high glucose does damage you body

Writer: Not Stated

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Date: May 15 2014 4:35 PM

What: "Insulin is essential to the metabolic process. Trying to burn glucose without insulin is like trying to set fire to a pile of logs without a match. It can't be done."

Writer: Not Stated

LCC: QP

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Date: Jul 26 2010 8:14 AM