Mistery of blood sugar

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Today I will talk about blood sugar, or blood glucose.

🤔 Many of us get worried when blood sugar increases. We try to prevent that increase. But, what should we do or will it be fixed!

🧐 First, we need to know why the amount of glucose in the blood has increased.

There is an organ in our body called the pancreas, which helps digest food and controls the body's glucose. This pancreas not only digests food, but also indirectly helps the heart, brain, and kidneys.

When we eat food, some of the carbohydrate food is dissolved by the enzymes in the mouth, then it moves to the stomach along with other food. Even after reaching the stomach, some of the food is digested. Then the rest of the food goes down to the small intestine. In this small intestine, it meets with bile and pancreatic juice. Only when we have indigestion after eating food, we get worried, but we do not realize that the food is being digested day after day. This is the balance of our body...

The problems increase when stones form in the gallbladder. The bile that comes out of the gallbladder originates from the liver. When bile reaches the second part of the duodenum, pancreatic enzymes come from the pancreas and mix with the bile. But when stones form in the gallbladder, a great danger occurs. Bile cannot be excreted properly. And due to the attraction of this bile, pancreatic enzymes cannot be completely excreted. However, the pancreas prepares the same amount of enzymes as the amount of food. The brain sends this instruction to the pancreas in advance. When this happens day after day, pancreatic juice starts the digestive process within the pancreas, resulting in pancreatitis. Again, if someone consumes excess alcohol, pancreatitis can also occur in that case.

When carbohydrates are eaten, a hormone called insulin is secreted from the pancreas. This insulin converts the carbohydrates into glycogen and stores them in our body's muscles and liver. If this storage increases too much, then the liver has a mechanism to convert it into fat. If we do not exercise and do not work properly, then fat accumulates in the body. This excess fat in the body then forms a coating around the cells and insulin resistance is created. The insulin of the pancreas cannot work properly, as a result of which the amount of glucose in the blood increases.

When a healthy person works properly, this fat cannot accumulate. In that case, hypoglycemia is often seen, that is, a decrease in the amount of glucose in the blood. At this time, another hormone of the pancreas, glucagon, which was initially stored in the liver and muscles as insulin glycogen, breaks it down and turns it back into glucose. And controls blood sugar.

You can say that the amount of glucose in the blood increases or decreases, it is a metabolic disorder. You can control it without any medicine if you want.

😟 There are also some episodes, where the amount of glucose in the blood increases.

For example - excessive thinking, alcohol consumption, laziness, eating very fatty foods and carbohydrate foods are one of the reasons for the increase in blood sugar.

👉 Genetic or hereditary diabetes. Diabetic genes can also be transferred to your body due to hereditary reasons. But you can control it without any medicine.

🔥 There are two types of diabetes, one is insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and the other is non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.

In insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, pancreatic beta cells are not produced since childhood. It is a congenital disease, so it cannot be called a metabolic disorder. Its only treatment is to replace insulin in the body artificially.

👉 Pancreatitis, i.e. inflammation of the pancreas, can cause some symptoms:

Stomach pain

Back pain

Blurred vision

Nausea

Inability to digest food properly

Increase or decrease in body sugar levels

Thank you

Dr. Anutosh Chakraborty

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Keywords - blood sugar, hyperglycemia, hypoglycemia, pancreatitis, metabolic disorder