It's more likely too much glucose blood sugar.

It's taking so much glucose from my bloodstream.

And indeed, we are able to get these areas of the brain that were not using glucose to use glucose once again.

And glucose gets delivered to cells through the blood stream.

Maybe they need glucose, or maybe they need some oxygen.

But why do we have to turn that glucose into ATP?

We can give glucose a sensor for diabetes to prevent it.

It's key in our ability to process glucose in our body.

That little glucose molecule then helps to build bigger and better carbohydrates

And then as we go further, today we have continuous glucose sensors.

Can we get those areas of the brain to use glucose once again?

I need a quart of, uh, ordinary saline solution with five percent glucose.

In this situation there is nothing to bind to these receptors, so the glucose channels won't be opened up and the glucose won't be able to enter into the cell

The brain is a bit of a hog when it comes to using glucose.

Plants are busy making long chains of starches and glucose, right, out of CO2.

And of course, the desired range trying to keep glucose between 75 and less than 200, checking it every five minutes in a continuous glucose sensor you'll see how that can impact diabetes.

If it's muscle cell it needs energy to contract they need energy just to do the basic function of a cell and the place where they get that energy from or the primary source of that energy is from glucose, and glucose is a simple sugar. if you actually tasted glucose, it would taste sweet.

Even plants have mitochondria in their cells to break down the glucose they make into ATP.

In this case, this patient is slightly at risk of diabetes because of their glucose level.

One does an automatic malaria diagnosis in the same way that a diabetic's glucose meter works

They have higher blood pressure, poorer cholesterol profiles and reduced glucose tolerance a precursor of diabetes.

So, you'll have insulin to attach to the receptors, and so the glucose can be processed properly.

They create a stored form of energy, in the form of carbohydrates such as glucose and sucrose.

If you looked at glucose molecules till you were blind, you wouldn't see why they tasted sweet.

The plant could also turn that glucose into starch, a large molecule that stores energy for the plant.

Glucose molecules attach to proteins forming what are called Advanced Glycation End Products also known as AGE proteins.

Now it turns out that in Alzheimer's disease, there's a huge deficit in glucose utilization in the brain.

The glucose won't enter by itself, it needs the assistance of a hormone or a molecule called insulin.

In this situation, the receptors have difficulty binding to the insulin. and glucose does not enter the cell.

It is the currency that all cells of life use while glucose is, well, kind of like ice cream.

Turns out, if you break some bonds, amylose is made up of smaller molecules of glucose, a simple sugar.

Then, the mitochondria in our cells, powered by the oxygen we breath, can turn glucose into pure energy molecules called ATP.

So, once again let me draw some glucose floating by... some insulin receptors on the cell, and let's have some insulin.

To help Type 2 diabetes, drugs and lifestyle changes can be used to help resensitize the body to insulin and glucose.

So, if you add enough insulin, there may be enough to bind with the insulin receptors and cause some glucose absorption.

The plant makes things like starch, which we eat and then break back down into glucose, the first form the plant made.

The brown color indicates the amount of glucose in the urine, the blue color indicates the amount of protein in the urine.

Twenty percent of all the glucose in your body is used by the brain, and as you go from being normal to having mild cognitive impairment, which is a precursor for Alzheimer's, all the way to Alzheimer's disease, then there are areas of the brain that stop using glucose.

So let me label all of these, this is glucose and it needs insulin so let me draw insulin here as a magenta molecule.

It uses 20 percent of all your even though it only weighs two percent it uses 10 times more glucose than it should based on its weight.

We implanted electrodes in the fornix of patients with Alzheimer's disease, we turned it on, and we looked at what happens to glucose use in the brain.

If you take a bunch of these same glucose molecules and rearrange them in a different way, you get cellulose, which is what plants are made of.

And indeed, at the top, you'll see before the surgery, the areas in blue are the areas that use less glucose than normal, predominantly the parietal and temporal lobes.

We then put in the DBS electrodes and we wait for a month or a year, and the areas in red represent the areas where we increase glucose utilization.

So in an ideal situation when the cell needs energy , glucose will enter the cell. unfortunately it's not that simple for the great majority of cell in human body.