Levels | What Is Glucose and What Does It Do for the Body? | Dr. Robert Lustig Ultimate Guide @levels | Uploaded June 2024 | Updated October 2024, 10 hours ago.
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Levels Advisor Robert Lustig, MD, explains the roles glucose plays for cells.

🍴 We get glucose from food.

🔥 It is a substrate for both growth and burning.

🔋 Glucose powers mitochondria, the energy-burning factories in our cells, so they can make adenosine triphosphate, or ATP. ATP is the body’s universal energy currency.

🔄 Glucose can be turned into lipids for cell membranes, ribose for DNA, and proteins for structural growth.

But how do your cells know what to do with the glucose coming in at any given time?

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