What is Glucose, What is Blood Sugar? They Are the Same Thing

If you are searching for what is glucose, what is blood sugar? Then you have likely been diagnosed with prediabetes and looking for answers. This is what happened to me when I got the same diagnosis. The answer is that glucose, blood glucose, blood sugar all refer to the same thing.

From here forward I will refer to it as glucose. Glucose refers to the amount of sugar in your blood stream. Your body regulates glucose as part of the metabolic process. Glucose is the primary source of energy for your body and all your organs.

Glucose is produced by the food we eat, being processed in the intestines to the liver and absorbed into the blood stream. This is a complex process but I am simplifying it so that it is easier to understand for us non medical types. For much more of a medical explanation click here. The liver and pancreas play a part in regulating an even level of glucose.

The cells in your blood need to be able to take up the glucose to be able to use the energy from it. The pancreas produces insulin that in turn allows the blood cells to take in the glucose. With prediabetes and type II diabetes when you have an elevated glucose level it usually is one of two issues. Either the blood cells are not responding properly and taking up the glucose or the pancreas is not producing an adequate supply of insulin or it may not be producing any insulin at all.

The good news is that if you have been diagnosed with prediabetes you are at the early stages and there are actions you can take to control or reverse it. The readily available food today that surrounds us is a major contributor to high glucose. You can immediately experience lowering of your glucose by avoiding white bread, white rice, anything made with white flour. These are all what is called simple carbohydrates and spike you’re glucose quickly.

If prediabetes continues it will be silently causing harm to your heart and cardiovascular system. One of the symptoms is high blood pressure that you may already be experiencing. Many times obesity is tied in with prediabetes and diabetes. There are many associated ailments that can accompany this condition.

Hopefully this has answered you question: What is Glucose, What is Blood Sugar?

Prediabetes cannot be ignored because it likely will turn into type II diabetes if not addressed within 5-10 years. Of course this article does not address all you need to know. You need to learn all about carbohydrates, the glycemic index, and if you are gluten intolerant. You need to know what foods and sugars to avoid and be active with regular exercise. But be of good cheer you can control or reverse this if you are highly motivated like I was.

Reverse Diabetes and Prediabetes

If you are seeking additional information to reverse diabetes here is a report I recommend from Health Advocate, Joe Barton and his team of hand-assembled doctors. Many of the same things I advocate on my website lowermyglucose.com about food and exercise are in this report. I think it is important to seek out as many sources as possible to equip you to reverse diabetes or prediabetes.

I have read this report cover to cover and concur with what is in it. It is more of a structured program of counting carbs (carbs turn into sugar), what foods to cut out and meal planning. This report is laid out in three phases with the first phase intended to really jump start your progress to reverse diabetes. The later phases ease you back into other foods after you have gotten your glucose under 100 ml/dl. Remember that over 100 is considered prediabetic.

This report costs $39.97 but if it is not for you he has a 100% risk-free  money back guarantee for 60 days.  Joe Barton himself says “I can honestly tell you my Diabetes Reversal Report doesn’t work 100% for everyone, but the good news is The Diabetes Reversal Report does work wonders for the vast majority of diabetics who use it”.

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Prediabetes is a Major Health Issue Now

1 in 4 teens are diabetic or prediabetic according to a new study released on 5/21/12 by the journal Pediatrics. That means that our kids will experience the associated diseases like cardiovascular disease, hypertension and high cholesterol that used to be associated with a much older population. Glucose levels in children are way higher now than in the past.

I have been trying to inform people through my website Lower My Glucose that you can reverse this prediabetes condition of high glucose levels if you learn about it early on and alter diet and exercise. It is good to see that this is getting some big press now because it is a huge epidemic that is affecting our kids and young adults as never before. It is getting worse and growing all the time, I think we are only beginning to grasp the magnitude of this problem.

Prediabetes and later type II diabetes is one of the biggest healthcare issues of the future in my opinion. I believe it has been brought about by our kid’s diets shifting primarily to processed foods, fast food, high sugar intake, and consumption of white flour products. Think about it, what do your kid’s eat the most of? I have 3 kids and all the stuff that is promoted and pushed on kids is alarming and as uninformed parents we rarely do a thing to stop it.

Society in general has gotten so far away from whole foods and eating healthy and instead eating what is readily available, quick and cheap to buy. Most of the health issues of the future will be self inflected by our own ignorance. To learn what you can do to lower your glucose significantly visit my “Nuts & Bolts” page and maybe leave a comment on what you do to lower your glucose.

Additional Resources

Youth diabetes, pre-diabetes rates soar

Nearly a quarter of teens diabetic or prediabetic, report says

Diabetes on the Rise Among Teenagers

Prediabetes/Brain Activity and High-Fructose Corn Syrup Connection

A new study has come out that high-fructose corn syrup in addition to being bad for prediabetes and diabetes, it also sabotages learning and memory. It also found that Omega-3 fatty acids helps to counteract this. I already knew that high-fructose corn syrup was bad for diabetes but it just gets worse.

UCLA just released a study showing that high-fructose corn syrup also interferes with learning and memory. They tested two groups of lab rats by seeing how well they navigated a maze with visual markers to help them remember the way. After six weeks of being fed a high fructose solution and one group also receiving Omega-3 fatty acids then they were tested again. The rats with the high-fructose corn syrup were slower and showed a decline in synaptic activity!

This study suggests that “Because insulin can penetrate the blood–brain barrier, the hormone may signal neurons to trigger reactions that disrupt learning and cause memory loss,” This study also suggests that Omega-3 fatty acids help to improve the brain synaptic activity in addition to being beneficial to your heart and overall good health which is already known.

High-fructose corn syrup is six times sweeter than cane sugar and is pervasive in all the processed foods that we consume all the time. You have to make a conscious effort to get away from this stuff to lower glucose and be healthy. The USDA says that Americans consume on average 40 pounds of high-fructose corn syrup. Wow that is a lot and does not take into account the other forms of sweetener that are consumed. We are literally killing ourselves with all the crap we consume and most people don’t even pay any attention to it.

The article on this study by UCLA can be viewed here.

High-fructose corn syrup is already associated with obesity, prediabetes, diabetes, and other health problems that stem from these. Prediabetes and diabetes have reached epidemic proportions and not enough is being said about it. As many as 7 million people have undiagnosed prediabetes that will turn into diabetes type II within 5-10 years if a change in diet and lifestyle is not made.

I am concerned about this because I was diagnosed with prediabetes early on and decided to do something about it. I dug deep and researched everything I could and found out that there is a lot that you can do to counteract and reverse prediabetes and I created a website to show others how they can do it too. I am no longer prediabetic. Let me show you how I overcame this, you can do this too! Visit my “Food” page and see what foods will help you to begin lowering your glucose.

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