What Is Blood Sugar and What Does It Do?

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I have a very over active pancreus, over achiever, worcoholic pancreus. So i have reactive hyper insionemia post prandial got. I know i've read them off of a lab report, and then i've ignored the advice the doctors have given me. R ive a bad system going on. But explain kind of what blood sugar is and what the pancreus does, and why that's important. Ok let's tart with the pancrus. The pancreus is freaking awesome. It wears two hats. In general, it wears an execran hat and an endocran hat. And they make harmones, and the beta cells

Your blood sugar can make you happy, moody, sweaty, unconscious and possibly even homicidal. In this episode, Dr. Mike Natter dishes about how blood sugar works, what insulin does, and how prevalent diabetes is in all of its various forms. Also: keto vs. vegan, hypoglycemia, cyborg organs, owl hoots, gestational diabetes, type 1 vs. type 2 and ... does Gwyneth drink her own pee? Also: the emotional side of the disease and how to help those in your life who are diabetic.

Next week, the doc addresses your questions, from diets to diagnoses to infuriating insulin prices.

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