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How to use healthy blood sugar levels to help you burn fat for energy – Dr. Jason Jones Elizabeth City NC, Chiropractor

You’ve probably heard of blood sugar a couple of times, but do you know that a healthy level of it can help to burn fat for energy production? Yeah, apart from energy production, balancing your blood sugar also helps in maintaining a healthy weight.

Glucose is the body’s main source of energy, and it dictates how energetic or hungry we feel. When you eat carbs, blood sugar is released into the bloodstream. However, for you to burn fat healthily, you need a healthy balance of blood sugar: not too high and not too low.

That’s more reason you should eat the right amount of fat, protein, and fiber at each meal. This way, you can stabilize your blood sugar level to burn fat and get a consistent energy supply throughout the day.

More so, a healthy blood sugar level prevent any form of insulin spike.

The normal range for blood sugar is between 70 mg/ml and 110 mg/ml. Insulin works on these sugars and transfer it from the blood stream to the cells. This helps to keep the blood sugar level within the normal range.

High blood sugar

If you eat too many carbs that are quickly processed into blood sugar, the pancreas produces the needed insulin that tells the body that there is enough energy available, and that it should store fat instead of burning it for energy.

Low blood sugar

When too much insulin is released into the blood, it causes too much blood sugar to be moved out, causing a feeling of tiredness, weakness, hunger, and lightheadedness. At this point, you tend to crave sugar and carbohydrates, in an attempt to gain more energy.

But in reality, what you get is a repeated cycle and your body converts and stores more glucose as fat.

How do you burn fat for energy?

When you have a healthy blood sugar level and no excess insulin, you burn fat between meals and energy is produced.

You can achieve a healthy blood sugar level by avoiding hidden sugar and simple carbohydrates.

Hidden sugars are found in processed foods, fat-free foods, beverages, and juices. While simple carbohydrates include sucrose, lactose, fructose, and glucose.

Instead of taking these forms of sugars, eat meals rich in protein, fat, and fiber. And one more thing- don’t starve yourself. When you do, it results in low blood sugars, which causes your body to burn muscle, lowering your metabolism. More so, it causes the production of stress hormone like cortisol, which prevents fat burning.

Eating fat helps you to avoid glucose spikes. Eating a moderate amount of protein helps to keep your blood sugar levels steady. Eating fiber slows the absorption of nutrients, such as glucose.

You don’t have to starve yourself; eat healthily and maintain a healthy blood sugar level. This way, you can burn fat in a healthy manner to derive more energy.

You can consult Dr. Jason Jones at our chiropractic office at Elizabeth City, NC, to learn more about maintaining a healthy blood sugar level for energy production.

 

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