Under normal circumstances, a physical examination from your doctor’s office includes a fast blood test. Should the results come back in the range of 110-120, your physician will advise you that your blood sugar is a little high and you shouldn’t be concerned as you are not at the stage of pre-diabetes or diabetes yet.
This is rather unfortunate for you as damage has already occurred in your system at levels which are below what is recognized to be pre-disease or diabetes disease status. Written below is information that will help you see what elevated blood sugar is and why you need to be keen about blood sugar levels.
Please be advised that the occurrences of elevated blood sugar happen especially when you are being told that your glucose levels are not a problem.
Autopsies and clinical studies all show damage occurring a little earlier than anyone would have thought. These studies suggest that elevated blood sugar start at 100mg/dl. The elevation creates a unique set of problem which affects the whole body.
To comprehend the complications associated with the elevation of blood sugar and to see how soon the problems start occurring, it’s important that we review the general understanding of hormone insulin.
The Role of Glucagon’s and Insulin Role in The Body
One of the key roles undertaken by your body includes keeping blood sugar levels in narrow ranges regardless of the foods and liquids you consume. For most people, the normal levels are between 70 and 110.
Doctor’s lab ranges from 65 to 99. As you can see, this is not a huge amount of sugar in the blood stream. For an individual weight around 68killograms, we are talking about a 1/6th of an ounce. Fasting blood sugar needs to be about 80 to 85.
Thanks to the way our bodies are designed, the pancreas makes our bodies fully equipped with effective systems that help in maintaining a narrow range. When you consume meals that have high levels of sugar and you have an episode of elevated blood sugar, the pancreas (Beta Cells around the pancreas area known as islets of Langerhans) release the hormone insulin very fast.
Automatically, your body knows that it needs to keep your blood sugar balanced so the process occurs at very high speeds.
The blood stream rapidly carried insulin to all other cells in the body and this is the point where the insulin triggers receptor sites on cell walls making it possible for the sugar to gain access into the cell and get converted into energy.
If you consume more sugar, than is required for energy production, the excess sugar gets stored as glycogen mostly in the liver but some excess sugars get stored in the muscles. The instance blood sugar levels are stored in a normal range, Beta Cells stop insulin production and stabilized levels.
When your blood sugar starts dropping, Alpha Cells found in the pancreas area start releasing other pancreatic hormone, glucagon which then triggers a release of stored sugar (Glycogen) from your liver as well as the muscles and you experience elevated blood sugar.
The term, Carb-loading commonly used by tri-athletes and long distance runners refers to them trying to fill their liver and muscles with the stored sugar, glycogen for energy purposes.
This far, your body functions are working fine in your body. That said however; at some point for certain reasons, insulin doesn’t pass easily as it is used to through the cell walls. This action causes the Beta Cells to increase insulin production bombarding the rest of the cells to try and get sugar in them for energy and balancing the blood sugar levels.
Reasons Why Cell Walls and Receptor Cells Do Not Allow Insulin to Cause Sugar Passage into the Cells
Too much sugar and carbs in the diet for a period of time that is prolonged calls for too much release of insulin which is capable of damaging receptor cells. Too much saturated fat and transfat that can coat cells interfering with insulin effectiveness.
Lack of the 46 essential nutrients which are a requirement for cells to function properly. The nutrients need to come from the food that you consume and supplements that you take. Deficits in any of the 46 essential nutrients translate to diabetic disease state in the body.
Genes that help in the regulation of insulin might be damaged by toxins, metals, heredity, and various other factors.
Prolonged Stress Periods: Stress is capable of shutting down insulin, this leads to elevated blood sugar levels to make energy more available in times of need. Insulin production spike up instantaneously so as to bring elevated sugar levels back down to normal.
As a result of the cell receptor issue, cells in the body become hostile and resistant to the insulin being produced. Insulin levels need to be increasing continuously thus forcing sugar into the cells. This is a process that forms the platform for various other problems.
Conclusion
When and if fat cells develop resistance to insulin, they release triglycerides into the blood stream. Triglycerides for those that don’t know are made from; water, sugar (glucose) and fatty acids. Free fatty acids levels rise in the bloodstream and this is a warning signal that your body has increased the risk of heart disease.