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<blockquote data-quote="Yorksman" data-source="post: 659106" data-attributes="member: 55568"><p>Yes there is a homeostatic process which keeps your blood glucose levels within a range as it goes up and down all day, and night, to fuel your body. It's not just exercise. Your brain needs fuelling too and is highly dependant on glucose being supplied to it. When you have digested what you have eaten and your blood is getting low on sugar, your body as a couple of ways of producing it if you do not eat. One is to chemically convert things like fatty acids and the other way is to deplete stores in the muscle.</p><p></p><p>Blood glucose variations of 21 individuals can be seen in this chart. You can see that they all drop from their highs but most start eating again before they get too low. A few do drop below the 60 point (US measurements) and in the absence of any signal saying food is available, the body starts to add some of its own to keep the person going.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tMgToYs_oYc/S9wxN9kZJnI/AAAAAAAAALc/jywRTUENoWQ/s1600/Christiansen_2006_BloodGlucose21Individuals.PNG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p></p><p>Homeostasis, meaning 'same state' is the name given to a number of vital functions such as body temperature, blood oxygenation etc. They all work withing ranges. You can read about the homeostatic process for glucose controls here in the third bullet point down:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeostasis#Biological" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeostasis#Biological</a></p><p></p><p></p><p><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4d/Suckale08_fig3_glucose_insulin_day.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yorksman, post: 659106, member: 55568"] Yes there is a homeostatic process which keeps your blood glucose levels within a range as it goes up and down all day, and night, to fuel your body. It's not just exercise. Your brain needs fuelling too and is highly dependant on glucose being supplied to it. When you have digested what you have eaten and your blood is getting low on sugar, your body as a couple of ways of producing it if you do not eat. One is to chemically convert things like fatty acids and the other way is to deplete stores in the muscle. Blood glucose variations of 21 individuals can be seen in this chart. You can see that they all drop from their highs but most start eating again before they get too low. A few do drop below the 60 point (US measurements) and in the absence of any signal saying food is available, the body starts to add some of its own to keep the person going. [IMG]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tMgToYs_oYc/S9wxN9kZJnI/AAAAAAAAALc/jywRTUENoWQ/s1600/Christiansen_2006_BloodGlucose21Individuals.PNG[/IMG] Homeostasis, meaning 'same state' is the name given to a number of vital functions such as body temperature, blood oxygenation etc. They all work withing ranges. You can read about the homeostatic process for glucose controls here in the third bullet point down: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeostasis#Biological[/url] [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4d/Suckale08_fig3_glucose_insulin_day.png[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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