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The trick is that your burn rate of glucose might exceed supply rate. Especially if stress conditions or dietary situation results in misbehaving supply, too.
by p_l 6y ago
The trick is that your burn rate of glucose might exceed supply rate. Especially if stress conditions or dietary situation results in misbehaving supply, too.
Not to mention getting warning signs and pushing through, which I'll be honest I'm guilty of doing as well (though I never got that far, and mostly it was sleep deprivation)
- Balgair 6y agoThat does happen, but the body is very good at making sure that levels of blood-glucose are maintained. If it is not, as in the case of diabetes, then very bad things happen. Things like a diabetic coma. As other commenters have said, absent any extreme weight loss or undiagnosed metabolism disorders like diabetes, there is nearly no chance that glucose burn-out occurred in an otherwise 'healthy' person. We may all be wrong, or missing some key information, at which point I look forward to the cuhbbyEmu video on it.
- ta988 6y agoBut the glucose amount in your brain is more like f(t,x,y,z) + constant . So what happens in those situations is that the variable part gets reduced, but the constant part needed for keeping tissues alive doesn't change.