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1 After you eat, carbohydrates break down into sugar and enter the bloodstream in the form of glucose, a sugar that serves as a primary source of energy. 2  Normally, the pancreas responds by producing insulin, which allows sugar to enter the tissues.
Glucose is important to the cells of the body, particularly the brain, as an energy source. However, the level of glucose in the blood must be regulated so that it does not rise too high. When the bloodstream contains glucose the pancreas is stimulated to produce the hormone insulin.Insulin causes glucose to be usable by the body cells and excess to be stored in the liver and muscles as glycogen.lycogen is stored in the liver and in muscles and can be converted back to glucose when needed by the body. Diabetes. A disease in which there is too much sugar in the blood. It results in tiredness, thirst and the production of a large volume of urine.