Sarah Kim

And so you may see higher glucose rises after certain meals.

You may see bigger changes in your glucose, whether you're sedentary versus active.

So you will see more variety in the glucose levels.

It can tell you, we think based on the way that your blood glucose is trending, you might have a very high glucose in the next 30 minutes.

Where does it come from?

So glucose comes from the food that we eat.

It comes from carbohydrates specifically and sugars.

And glucose is the specific...

kind of sugar that the body uses for energy currency.

So we absolutely need glucose all the time to fuel our cells.

You remember many details of that.

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But we get our ATP from glucose.

We can get ATP from fat and other things, but glucose is ultimately the main currency.

So each cell can store some glucose and some cells can store a lot more glucose, like your muscles that need a lot of glucose because they're the ones moving your body.

And we store that in the form of glycogen.

And then your liver is actually the organ that stores extra glucose to share later.

And when you are not eating, like when you're sleeping at night, the liver will give out glucose to the rest of the body so that we have glucose all the time.

So hormones are just chemical messengers in the body.

Insulin comes from a specific cell in the pancreas called