The Glucose-Insulin System Prevents High Blood Sugar
By Dr Joseph J Collins, ND, RN

This article is part of the Blood Sugar Health Educational Module
When glucose levels rise, such as after eating a meal, your pancreas releases insulin from beta-cells in the pancreas. The increased insulin levels cause the liver to uptake more glucose from the blood and convert it into glycogen (the “stored glucose”). The increased insulin levels also cause increased uptake and use of glucose by muscle cells (myocytes), which use it for energy, or convert it to glycogen. In addition, the increased insulin levels also cause increased uptake and use of glucose by fats cells (adipocytes), which convert excessive glucose into triglycerides, which are stored in adipose tissue.
Your pancreas, liver and muscles and fat cells work together to control excessive amounts of glucose in your blood. Specifically, your body controls excessive glucose levels by storing the excessive glucose as glycogen or triglycerides.
Glycogen is a form of stored glucose that is stored in the liver and skeletal muscles. Glycogen is made up of many connected glucose molecules, that the body can quickly convert back to glucose by the action of glucagon. Glycogen is essentially the main form of stored glucose in the body. It is important that your body maintains enough of this “stored glucose” (glycogen) in your body to help your body maintain adequate blood glucose levels. Your body can convert glycogen back to glucose very quickly, to keep your blood sugar from dropping to low. Glycogen is best described as short-term storage of glucose.
Triglycerides are best described as long term storage of glucose. Each triglyceride is made up of glycerol and three fatty acids. As noted, the hormones glucagon converts glycogen to glucose. In addition to preventing hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) by converting glycogen to glucose, due to the hormone of glucagon, the body can also convert triglycerides back to glucose. Triglycerides are made up of three units of fatty acids and one unit of glycerol. Glycerol is a component of fatty acids in fats that is released when stored fat is metabolized for energy. It then enters the bloodstream and transferred to the liver where it can be converted to glucose.
The Glucose-Insulin System prevents high blood sugar by increasing insulin as need, which can place the excessive blood glucose into storage as either glycogen or triglycerides.
Specific herbs in GlucoQuench™ have been shown to support the production and function of insulin by various mechanisms.
The Glucose-Insulin System prevents high blood sugar by improving the functions of insulin and glucose
GlucoQuench™ contains herbs that can support the proper functions of insulin and glucose.
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Reviewed & Updated: 07/20/19