Blood glucose levels considered normal are not healthy

Many people think we need to consume sugar or carbohydrates to fuel our brains, but that's not true! Your body is capable of producing the glucose it needs even if you don't eat carbohydrates.

We're 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 don't do much sport) and often refined.

Keep reading if you want to know more!

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

Carbohydrates are easily transformed into glucose, which passes into the bloodstream, providing our body with this source of energy.

But like everything, too much is not good.

High blood glucose levels can be very harmful.

Currently, glucose levels that were considered normal are altered. These are quite high values; this is because the data collected in the mid-20th century to establish normal blood sugar levels 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 carbohydrates are consumed excessively, blood glucose is much higher than it was in our hunter-gatherer ancestors.

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

If you don't eat carbohydrates, your body produces glucose in your liver without any problems if you're a healthy person. We're not saying that carbohydrates are bad or that you should stop eating them; we're just clarifying that your body is capable of maintaining the necessary blood glucose levels, even if you don't eat carbohydrates.

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

And it's not true. If you're someone who doesn't exercise or move around much, you'll probably be much better off eating very few carbohydrates.

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. And it can also make glucose if we haven't ingested carbohydrates by collecting amino acids through a process called gluconeogenesis.

The liver can also manufacture ketones, another fuel for the body, when we're low on glucose. Our body stores the sugar it has for those organs that need it, and the liver produces ketones to supplement the limited sugar reserves.

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

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

We shouldn't demonize carbohydrates, just as we shouldn't demonize fats. But we also shouldn't think that if we don't consume them, our body will collapse because sugar won't 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's not like that.

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

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

It's a fact that excessive carbohydrate consumption is linked to an increase in metabolic problems. But we haven't talked about eliminating them completely, but rather avoiding excessive consumption (specifically refined carbohydrates).

We know it can't be explained in detail in an Instagram post, so we wanted to go deeper. We're not perfect, but we're trying to do our part.

If you have any questions, please reply to the comments and you can reach us through our social media channels.

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