The Regulation of Blood Sugar: Everything You Need to Know
In this video, we are discussing how blood sugar is regulated, how diabetes develops, and how diabetes and prediabetes are diagnosed.
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More than 1 billion people worldwide suffer from either diabetes or prediabetes, both of which are disturbances in how the body regulates blood sugar levels. In this video, we provide detailed information about how blood sugar levels are regulated in healthy people, what goes wrong in this process in type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus, and how diabetes is diagnosed.
We are discussing insulin resistance and its relationship to the function of the pancreatic beta-cell as well as insulin-independent regulation of blood sugar, including glucose effectiveness.
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00:00 Intro
00:34 Carbs 101
04:03 Blood sugar = Blood Glucose
04:47 Blood Sugar is Tighly Regulated
07:54 Glucose Tolerance – Biology and Clinical Definitions
14:37 Insulin Resistance, Beta-Cell Function, and the Disposition Index
26:46 Insulin-Independent Blood Sugar Regulation
32:06 Summary
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