The body changes food into a sugar called glucose.

人体将食物转变为一种称为葡萄糖的糖类。

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Most green plants make the kind of sugar called glucose.

大部分绿色植物都制造称为葡萄糖的这种糖。

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The processing creates a food product that, once eaten, is quickly converted to blood sugar, called glucose.

这样的处理使面包一旦下肚，就迅速转化成为血糖，也就是葡萄糖。 这造成胰腺超负荷运作，最终损伤器官。

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The pump developed by researchers is a double pump - in addition to insulin, it automatically secretes glucagon, a hormone that taps glucose reserves in the liver, raising blood sugar levels when they get too low, a condition called hypoglycemia.

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Those are called glucose transporters.

这些分子叫做葡萄糖转运载体

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Another hormone gets produced by the pancreas in response to low glucose levels, it's called glucagon.

胰腺产生另外一类激素,来应对血糖水平降低的情况,它叫做胰高血糖素

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Axona contains FDA-approved food additives and a special formulation of a fat called caprylic triglyceride, which Accera says provides the brain an alternative energy source to glucose called ketones after the product is metabolized by the liver.

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Aside from your liver breaking down glycogen into glucose, your body also has the ability to manufacture glucose in a process called gluconeogenesis.

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Scans also show that the temporal lobe, which contains the hippocampus, and another brain region called the posterior cingulate use less glucose than a normal brain, suggesting they have shut down.

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