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395: How to balance your blood sugar without changing your diet | Biochemist Jessie Inchauspe

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What Is Glucose, Why It's So Critical?

Every single cell in your body uses glucose to perform a function. If you give a human too much glucose, they experience what's called glucose spikes. It's kind of the same as when you give a plant too much water or oxygen and it drowns. We get glucose by eating starchy or sweet foods because they both break down into glucose in our digestive system.

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