Blood Sugar and Insulin: Is This Making You Fat?
Many know routine blood-work includes basics such as a check for anemia, and screening thyroid, cholesterol and blood sugar. The blood sugar check is really important to ensure you aren't on your way to diabetes and may help explain why you are gaining weight around the middle.
But what about your insulin?
Glucose (blood sugar) and insulin go together like a lock and key...in a swanky hotel. Picture a big hotel. You are the glucose, the hallways are your arteries and each room is a cell in your body.
Now imagine you want to get into your room - but how do you do it? Well, when you show up and check-in, the hotel clerk hands you a key card. You walk down the hallway to your room, swipe the key card, the box blinks 'green' and you walk in.
Essentially, that's how your body works too. You eat something that is sugar or breaks down to sugar and as a response, your body makes insulin to swipe the door handle and allow your sugar to enter the cell and be used as energy.
Now imagine you have a busted key card. You go up to your room and swipe and swipe and swipe, yet nothing happens. You think it must be a bum key or you are at the wrong room.
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