BLOOD GLUCOSE LEVELS CONSIDERED NORMAL ARE NOT HEALTHY

Many people think that we need to consume sugar or carbohydrates to feed the brain, but that is not true! Your body is capable of producing the glucose it needs even if you do not eat carbohydrates.

We are not saying that carbohydrates are bad, nor are we demonizing them. But after many years of demonizing fats 🥑🥥 we consume them in excess (especially people who do not exercise much) and often refined.

Keep reading if you want to know more!

Glucose is one of our body's sources of energy, it is "gasoline" that provides energy for our daily life and certain organs require a constant amount of glucose to function properly.

Carbohydrates end up easily transforming into glucose, which passes into the blood and we already have this source of energy for our body.

But like everything, too much is not good.

High blood glucose levels can be very harmful.

Currently, glucose levels that are considered normal are altered. They are quite high values, this is because the data collected in the mid-20th century to establish what normal blood sugar levels were were obtained from a sample of people in today's society whose diet was already heavily influenced by the modern lifestyle.

In this industrial society where an excess of carbohydrates is consumed, blood glucose is much higher than that of our hunter-gatherer ancestors.

You need to get your body metabolically flexible and accustomed to getting energy from both carbohydrates and fat stores.

If you don't eat carbohydrates, your body produces glucose in the liver without any problems if you are a healthy person. Please note that we are not saying that carbohydrates are bad or that you should stop consuming them, we are just clarifying that your body is capable of maintaining the level of glucose you need in your blood, even if you don't consume carbohydrates.

For years we have been sold a nutritional pyramid in which the BSA is full of carbohydrates, indicating that they should be our main source of food.

And that's not true. If you're a person who doesn't exercise and doesn't move around much, you'll probably do much better with very few carbs.

When we eat, the liver stores glucose in the form of glycogen for when we need it.

The liver can convert glycogen into glucose through a process called glycogenolysis. It can also make glucose if we haven't eaten carbohydrates by harvesting amino acids through a process called gluconeogenesis.

The liver can also make ketones , another fuel for the body, when we are low on glucose. Our body is responsible for storing the sugar it has for those organs that need it and the liver makes ketones to supplement limited sugar reserves.

Ketones are used as energy by muscles and other body organs.

The liver is responsible for producing this alternative fuel from fats through a process called ketogenesis. This process begins when hormones indicate that there is a low level of insulin in the body and is essential for maintaining minimum glucose levels during periods of fasting.

We should not demonize carbohydrates, just as we should not demonize fats. But we should not think that if we do not consume them, our body will collapse because sugar will not reach our brain.

Many companies that sell cereals or sugary products have been trying to make us believe this for a long time, buuuut it is not true.

We reaffirm that carbohydrates should not be the basis of the nutritional pyramid (as a general rule and for people who are not very athletic), in addition to the fact that they are consumed in excess and refined carbohydrates should not be consumed except by people with a high caloric intake such as athletes.

We should focus on consuming sugars present in the food matrix (such as in fruits and vegetables).

It is a fact that excessive consumption of carbohydrates is associated with increased metabolic problems. But we have not talked about total elimination, but rather about avoiding excessive consumption (particularly refined carbohydrates).

We know that it can't be explained in detail in an Instagram post and that's why we wanted to go deeper. We're not perfect but we try to do our part.

If you have any questions, we will reply to your comments and you can contact us through our social networks.

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