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[–] easily3667@lemmus.org 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Glucose is only bad in the same way oxygen is bad. I think you need to rewatch your lecture.

Diabetics don't have a problem with too much glucose they have an issue with too little insulin or insulin resistance

[–] stray@pawb.social 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Too much glucose is a great way to get diabetes.

[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Kind of? Getting fat and eating too much regularly are great ways to get diabetes, and sugar is a great way to get fat.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sugar is also acidic. Not enough to kill you, but that's why ketoacidosis kills people. It also increases blood viscosity, making it pump harder and causing hypertension. Plus, it causes chronic inflammation, which calcifies triglycerides in your blood to form clots.

Sugar has tons of negative effects.

[–] easily3667@lemmus.org 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

On the flip side, you require a steady supply of glucose into your cells to live.

Also I'm not gonna look it up to confirm but that ketoacidosis explanation sounds like a grave misunderstanding of what it is.

[–] easily3667@lemmus.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 1 points 23 hours ago

Not the commenter but as a type 1 diabetic yeah you’re right, but when most say diabetes they mean type 2, which is the kind where you eat unhealthy and don’t exercise where type 1 is when your immune system just doesn’t like your pancreas

I was going somewhere with this but completely lost my train of thought