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Just occurred to me recently:
As I understand it, under normal circumstances the liver converts excess glucose into glycogen for storage until needed. Presumably there is a limit to how much it can store easily?
So here's the question. Take my own case: I was downing litres of orange juice per day for the best part of a year, along with way too much beer. Eventually my liver would have been overwhelmed by the demand for glycogen storage space, and stopped taking in any more glucose, I assume. As a result, my BG would start to rise, with nowhere to go. At that point I had my blood levels tested at the hospital and they were, indeed, high.
But if all of that is about right, doesn't it follow that those high readings were at that stage temporary, fully reversible by cutting out the abuse? Isn't that just a storage problem, rather than permanent damage?
I am not asking anyone to say what actually happened with my body, but isn't this at least what could have happened?
As I understand it, under normal circumstances the liver converts excess glucose into glycogen for storage until needed. Presumably there is a limit to how much it can store easily?
So here's the question. Take my own case: I was downing litres of orange juice per day for the best part of a year, along with way too much beer. Eventually my liver would have been overwhelmed by the demand for glycogen storage space, and stopped taking in any more glucose, I assume. As a result, my BG would start to rise, with nowhere to go. At that point I had my blood levels tested at the hospital and they were, indeed, high.
But if all of that is about right, doesn't it follow that those high readings were at that stage temporary, fully reversible by cutting out the abuse? Isn't that just a storage problem, rather than permanent damage?
I am not asking anyone to say what actually happened with my body, but isn't this at least what could have happened?