It's all about a healthy lifestyle, says Ray Chung, MD, medical director of the liver transplant program at Massachusetts General Hospital. Taking care of your liver is far more about avoiding what's bad than it is about eating or drinking things that are particularly nourishing to the liver, he says.
Confidence votes 916. Glucose is an organic compound. Organic compounds by definition are compounds that contain carbon. Glucose is an organic compound. Organic compounds by definition are compounds that contain carbon.
Glucose is a simple sugar with the molecular formula C6H12O6. Glucose circulates in the blood of animals as blood sugar. It is made during photosynthesis from water and carbon dioxide, using energy from sunlight. It is the most important source of energy for cellular respiration. Glucose is stored as a polymer, in plants as starch and in animals as glycogen. With 6 carbon atoms, it is classed as a hexose, a sub-category of the monosaccharides. D-glucose is one of the 16 aldohexose stereoisomers.