Healt drops – fishoil
Fish oil doesn't directly affect blood sugar levels. However, blood sugar, referred to as blood glucose, changes into other substances during the metabolic process, and the essential fatty acids in fish oil alter how these post-glucose products metabolize. Fish oil reduces the level of the potentially harmful glucose metabolite called triglycerides.
Blood Glucose
During digestion, sugars and carbohydrates transform into glucose, which your intestines absorb and release into the blood stream. As your blood glucose levels rise after eating, your pancreas detects the increase and releases insulin, which attaches to cells throughout your body. The insulin activates other receptors on the cells that allow glucose to enter them, where it is broken down for cellular energy.
Energy Transformation and Storage
Insulin transforms excess glucose not needed by the cells into glycogen, a form of fat, for future energy use. The glycogen stores in your liver and muscles. As your glycogen stores fill, remaining excess glucose converts into triglycerides, another form of fat, and stores in fat cells under your skin and in a sheath attached to your stomach called the omentum. So, the calories you consume change to glucose, which then converts directly into energy or into fat in the form of glycogen or triglycerides.
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