To: Nathan Zachary
Table sugar is sucrose + fructose. The “corn syrup” you refer to is commonly known as “high fructose corn syrup” and is metabolized only in the liver into fatty acids.> Human livers are capable of breaking down protein into ketones but human bodies cannot produce glucose from proteins or any other source. You have properly described the process of becoming a T1 diabetic and not a T2 diabetic. Insufficiency of insulin is a T1 diabetic. The arrival of insulin resistance defines the status of T2 diabetes.
51 posted on
10/21/2008 10:24:00 PM PDT by
kruss3
(Kruss3@gmail.cailomes)
To: kruss3
I'm a t2 diabetic. The lib=ver produces glucose from protiens when you don't get enough carbs in your diet, which in turn triggers your pancreas into producing more insulin to convert it.
This is why t2 diabetics wake up in the morning with high blood glucose levels, and take a pill called metformin (glucophage) But of course every dietitian, diabetes club/foundation etc. is wrong and your right.
To: kruss3
and pill manufacturer making pills like Metformin to stop the liver from producing sugar
To: kruss3
Human bodies cannot produce glucose? Want to look at that again?
64 posted on
10/21/2008 11:16:15 PM PDT by
count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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