Uploaded September 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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The body maintains a twelve-minute supply of glucose, without which we'd die. Yet blood sugar levels are incredibly stable regardless of when, or what -- or even whether -- we eat (unless one has diabetes). How do we perform this miracle? Why don't we need to eat constantly? Why don't we die from hypoglycemia in our sleep? Answers to those questions, and more, in today's Non-Coffee Episode of the Wired Gourmet.

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Production Assistant: Leo Greene
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Music:
Kalimba Relaxation Music by Kevin MacLeod
Link: incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5711-kalimba-relaxation-music
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