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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sgm14" data-source="post: 2739485" data-attributes="member: 517358">Glucose is fuel for the brain and the glucose gets to the brain via your blood. Hence you need a certain amount of glucose in your blood otherwise your brain will quickly shutdown, i.e you go into a coma.When you eat, carbs gets converted to glucose and absorbed into your blood stream.But too much glucose in your blood is also bad and insulin is used to move glucose out of the blood and into storage (e.g. the liver)Non-diabetics will stop producing insulin when their levels are low enough and may instead produce glycogen which releases glucose back into the blood stream.Diabetics will also produce glycogen which will try to release glucose back from the storage. But we can't get rid of the insulin that we have already injected which means it may be removing glucose from the blood stream faster that the glycogen releases it.Edited by mods to remove forum rule breach</blockquote>

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