Why is blood glucose an absolute requirement for human life?
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glucose is fuel for the body.  glycolysis makes ATP which is essential for the body to function
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Insulin is a hormone that regulates the glucose level in blood. It is a hormone secreted by the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas that regulates the level of glucose in the blood. Deficiency in production results in diabetes mellitus.
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sugar raises the level of insulin. the higher the insulin, the more inhibited your growth hormones would be from getting released. this, in turn, depresses the immune system.\n\nthe explanation is a little more complicated. vitamin C and glucose (one of three simple sugars) have similar chemical structures. this means that white cells can just as easily absorb vitamin C (which they need so that they can fight the viruses and infections in the body) as they can sugar. higher levels of sugar means that the white blood cells tend to ingest these sugars, instead of the much-needed vitamin C. \n\nthis in turn weakens the body's immune system. sugar cannot help white cells from fighting the viruses, bacteria, and other toxins in the body.
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Anabolism is the part of metabolism that refers to building of molecules, therefore, it would seem reasonable to anser there strangely worded questions thusly:\n\n1) since Amino Acids are used to build proteins and peptides, anabolism of amino acids yields proteins and peptides;\n\n2) since glucose is used to build glycogen, anabolism of glucoos will yield glycogen.\n\nGood luck!
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ok..in english diabetes is the inability of cells to use sugar in the blood due to either a lack of insulin (produced by the pancreas) or the inability for a cell to transport sugar across the cell. because your cells cannot use the sugar it stays in limbo between the cells (high blood sugar)until it is filtered out through the kidneys (this causes alot of pressure and can destroy them). the high blood sugar also puts alot of pressure on the eyes that can cause blindness. another effect if left untreated is pariphial neuropathy..a big word for loss of circulation and feeling in the lower extremities (legs) this can lead to sores that cannot heal (because the cells cannot use the sugar for energy) these are things that do not happen all at once but over time. If you do not keep your sugar under control these things WILL happen...PLEASE take this disease seriously...many times the treatment is diet and exercise depending on how much insulin your pancreas does produce..if this does not work you will need to take medicine every day for the rest of your life (which is much better than the consiquences of not treating it ....amputation, blindness, kidney failure, stroke, heart attack, ect...this list continues to grow.
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Yes and no... \n\nDiabetes, when left untreated for an extended period of time, can be a "killer" disease. Untreated elevated blood sugar levels have harmful effects on your eyes, nervous system, kidneys, and practically every other major organ system in your body. \n\nBUT... the good news ... \n\nDiabetes is also a very controllable disease. With proper medication, diet, exercise, you can live for many, many years with the condition. Sometimes complications are inevitable, but so it is with every chronic illness out there. \nRemember to eat well, exercise, and take your medications as prescribed. Work with your doctor on coming up with a individualized treatment plan for your specific needs.
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The human requires 46 essential nutrients from the daily diet. Essential vitamins consist of vitamins, minerals, proteins (amino acids).\n\nEssential nutrients:\n\n1)Most are not produced by the body.  100% sourced from our diet\n2)Many are broken down, lost or excreted daily.  Required daily\n3)Should be consumed in balanced proportions. Nutritional intake should be balanced.\n4)Are interdependent and may not be able to function without the presence of others.  The 46 essential nutrients should be presented at all times. \n\nLacking of 46 essential nutrients, Acidic body condition, unhealthy lifestyle will lead to unhealthy cells  Semi unhealthy state – headache, fatigue, shoulders ache  Long term will lead to high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer, leukemia, many 21st century common diseases.\n\nSpirulina is a highly nutritious health food, power-packed with vegetative protein, Gamma Linolenic Acid, Glycogen, numerous vitamins and minerals. This alkaline seaweed can be readily digested and easily assimilated by the human body. It is an ideal food supplement for achieving good health and energy.\n\nI have testimonials on people who have the same conditions as you and they have recovered now. I hope I can help you out on this.\n\nIf you want to know more information, you can email me at jaslinlee@yahoo.com I will be glad to answer your enquiries.
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It is the organic processes (in a cell or organism) that are necessary for life.
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Food, carbs are a big part of the energy that our body needs.
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High blood-sugar over time can lead to complications, like neuropathy, blindness, kidney failure, and death, so it is important to control blood-sugar to prevent this from happening. Temperature has very little to do with diabetes, except that fever sometimes indicates an infection, which would be more dangerous for diabetics than everyone else.
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This is a good question, but let's define "important" as "necessary for organismal survival".  In this case, both are EQUALLY important.  The endocrine function of the pancreas is to secrete insulin and glucagon which help to lower and raise the blood sugar levels, respectively.  Blood sugar level homeostasis is necessary for human survival.  On the other hand, the exocrine pancreas secretes trypsinogen, chymotrypsinogen, carboxypeptidase, pancreatic lipase, pancreatic amylase, and other substances which aid in the digestion of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats.  Obviously, this is a function which is also necessary to human survival.  You simply can not live with only one of these pancreatic functions operational and so it appears that neither function takes precedence over the other.  Again, very thoughtful and insightful question!
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Glucose is important to the body because it is broken down into just water and carbon dioxide in the process of oxidative phosphorylation in the mitochondria of your cells-this requires oxygen..  This is where your body gets 95% of it's evergy-for example, runners use oxydative phosphorylation (aerobic energy) and can go steadily for 26 miles (or more)-while weightlifters when lifting use primarily anaerobic energy (without oxygen)-that only can give energy for a minute or so.  WIthout aerobic metabolism you would die in a few minutes.  So, glucose plus oxygen is where you get energy, and it happens in the mitochondria of cells.  Cyanide interfers with this reaction in the mitochondria, so that oxygen cannot be used to make energy (so cyanide primarily works against oxygen, but since it's glucose + oxygen that is burned to make the energy, is might as well work against glucose as well).  Burning glucose for energy using oxygen is exactly the same as burning fuel in a fire.  If you start a fire, but keep it from getting oxygen, it'll go out- cyanide starves your body of the oxygen, so *your* fire goes out.
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There are no definite answers, except that millions of years of evolution has deemed it necessary, but if you look at the organs function it can give you some clues.\n\nMost people know that that we breath in Oxygen and breath out Carbon Dioxide, but don't actually know why. Oxygen is essential to a process called "Cellular Respiration", but the short answer is that Oxygen is needed to bind to the waste products of our cells using sugar for food. When humans have to switch to fat for energy, like when your exercising, massive amounts of oxygen is needed to get rid of the waste products, so much so that two lungs can't even keep up. \n\nKidneys are the organs that regulate our bodies chemistry. Especially Ph levels that have to be in a very narrow range for our cells to stay alive. It's possible that a person could live with one of them, but by their nature, kidney's absorb poisons and damage themselves, and if you've only got one and it starts to have damage areas it would lead to death.\n\nGonads (ovaries/testicles) is a little more hazy. Ovaries take turns releasing eggs every other menstrual cycle. But I would guess that this is more a safety in redundancy type of thing, since biologically our body is little more than a system of keeping our sex cells alive to make sure we reproduce.\n\nHeart, liver and spleen, is simple, we only need one of them to perform the function that it does.
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Not exactly sure what you are asking here, but galactose is an alternate energy source than the preferred glucose that many organisms use. Diabetes is a disease resulting from either an inability to produce insulin or a diminished capability of cells to recognize insulin as a hormone. In each case, it prevents glucose from being taken up into cells to be used for energy because insulin signals the cell to take glucose up from the blood stream. One way to keep model organisms with diabetes healthy until you want to study them is to grow them with galactose which intracellular levels are not affected by diabetes.
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Normal glucose blood levels vary from person to person, but almost all fall into the range of 90 to 120 mg/dl when fasting. For perhaps 2 hours after a meal, glucose levels rise  to perhaps 140 mg/dl until the meal has been fully digested and absorbed. \n\nGlucose is kept at (or very near) the normal level at all times by arranging for stored glucose (in the liver) to be put into the blood when the level drops and by releasing insulin when blood glucose levels rise which forces most body cells (about 2/3) to absorb glucose from the blood. \n\nIn diabetes, either the the amount of insulin is reduced (loss of production) or body cells become insensitive to it. Or both in some cases. The result is more glucose left in the blood than normal, and that is the characteristic (and diagnostic) sign of diabetes (either Type).
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After you eat, the food is broken down into glucose, the simple sugar that is the main source of energy for the body's cells. But your cells cannot use glucose without insulin, a hormone produced by the pancreas. Insulin helps the cells take in glucose and convert it to energy. When the pancreas does not make enough insulin or the body is unable to use the insulin that is present, the cells cannot use glucose. Excess glucose builds up in the bloodstream, setting the stage for diabetes.
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Yeah to some people . Its also good for...Stroke ,high blood pressure ,Various mental problems including (but not limited to)early forms of dementia ,depression,anxiety/panic attacks..Stick to sugar .even small doses are better for you than that man-made stuff.