What is glucose important for your body? Why is glucose especially important for the brain? Should glucose be in the blood of a healthy individual?

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  1. What is glucose important for your body?
  2. Why is glucose especially important for the brain?
  3. Should glucose be in the blood of a healthy individual?
  4. Is it small? Does it get filtered through the filtration membrane at the glomerulus?
  5. Do you want to let glucose out in your urine?
  6. If glucose if filtered, but you want to keep it, what process does the nephron do to keep it?
  7. Should you have glucose in your urine if you are a normal healthy individual?
  8. What is a transport maximum? It means that we have so much glucose in the blood and in the filtrate that we cannot: _______________ it all.
  9. What hormone allows glucose to move from your blood INTO your cells? This hormone is the “key” that opens the “locked door” into your cells.
  10. What happens if you have diabetes mellitus and cannot produce (or produce enough) insulin?
  11. What symptoms does someone with diabetes mellitus (type I or type II)? Specifically:

 

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