Is Glucose Good or Bad for me?

The Glucose Molecule is Essential to Life

What is Glucose? Is it good or bad for me? Glucose is a tiny molecule that your life depends on. Humans burn glucose as fuel. Our bodies are efficient at breaking down carbohydrates and sugars and converting them into the energy that we need to move our bodies and to grow.

But, what happens when you consume more glucose in the form of simple carbohydrates and sugars than your body can burn. First, your body will try to send the extra sugar in your blood stream into your cells so that it can be used. Your body does this by producing insulin in your pancreas. The job of insulin is to force the sugar out of your blood and into your cells. If your cells have all of the sugar they can use, the sugar stays in the blood. Your body will try to solve this problem by producing even more insulin. If this continues to happen your can become insulin resistant and may become prediabetic or even develop type II diabetes.

Your body will respond to excess sugar intake in other ways as well. The bacteria or flora in your gut that like to eat sugar will reproduce wildly, getting out of control. They will crowd out the beneficial bacteria in your gut that like to eat fiber and also produce the neurotransmitters, vitamins and micronutrients that you require to stay happy and healthy. When this happens it can affect your mood, even contributing to depression and the development of chronic conditions. A strange side effect of this is that you might become hypo-glycemic.

Hypo-glycemia is low blood sugar and it is dangerous. After those wildly reproducing sugar eating bacteria in your gut digest all the sugar in your system, you will experience the classic energy crash that comes after eating a high carbohydrate meal. This sugar crash comes from an imbalance in your gut biome and from the rapid digestion of glucose/sugar that it causes.

So, how can you maintain a healthy blood sugar, or blood glucose level? First, by not eating too many simple carbohydrates, things like sugary drinks, white rice, white potatoes and starchy foods or highly processed, boxed or prepared foods with added sugar. Try to eat balanced meals that include complex carbohydrates like vegetables, brown rice and whole fruits, not fruit juices that have concentrated sugar in them. Always choose simple real food over processed food, whenever you have a choice.

On this website you will find links to a few tested and scientifically validated products that will help you to regulate your blood sugar level. These products work by supporting the good fiber eating bacteria in your gut and by slowing the digestion of carbohydrates so that you do not get the blood sugar spike and later the crash that are associated with hypo-glycemia.

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