glucose
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After a meal, it’s where most of the sugar, or glucose, in our blood is sent.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
One patient came to me having tracked every metric imaginable—her glucose levels, her heart-rate variability, her biological age—and yet she couldn’t tell me the last time she had been genuinely excited about something.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Instead, the conversation turns to the longevity industrial complex—biological-age testing, sleep scores, continuous glucose monitors, elaborate supplement stacks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
“When it’s not competing with other muscles, it gets to grab on to as much glucose and fat as possible.”
From Barron's ● Jun. 27, 2026
When bacteria switched from glucose to lactose consumption, they induced specific lactose-digesting enzymes.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Sugars may be divided into two classes,—the sucroses, C12H22O11, and the glucoses, C6H12O6.
From An Introduction to Chemical Science by Williams, Rufus Phillips
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