The word "glucose" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a type of sugar that is important for providing energy to the body. For example, "My doctor told me to monitor my glucose levels regularly."
Understanding exactly how the combination of low blood glucose and high ketones prevents seizures has become the subject of intense research.
If you're limiting glucose, you're taking away their fuel.
Contrary to the notion that it's all in our heads, Baumeister provides a lengthy review of studies that suggest willpower draws disproportionately on blood glucose, a brain fuel.
7 Eat well Evidence suggests that self-control draws disproportionately on blood glucose, which is a fuel for the brain.
He found changes in two particular molecules in the blood: falling blood glucose and raised levels of fat metabolites, called ketones.
"With cancer cells, they can only produce the energy they need to grow via fermentation, which requires glucose.
The hormone insulin, produced by the pancreas, is responsible for controlling the amount of glucose in the blood.
I fish out the email Baumeister sent me, in which he accuses Mischel of "sloppiness", "ignorance" and "indulging his prejudices", before calling his dismissal of glucose as a factor "a loony assertion".
Some apps for wearable devices can even track what you have eaten (blood glucose monitoring).
This results in ketones replacing glucose as an alternative fuel – and this transition from glucose to fat metabolism reduces the systemic inflammation that can underlie epilepsy and many other diseases.
One is that your blood glucose levels are falling – this would explain your symptoms and the recovery about an hour after eating.
