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glucose

[gloo-kohs] / ˈglu koʊs /
NOUN
blood sugar
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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

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

“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

Although fructose and glucose produced similar short-term effects on food intake, the mice eventually developed preferences that corresponded to the degree of AgRP neuron inhibition triggered by each sugar.

From Science Daily Jun. 26, 2026

That’s when Japanese chemists discovered an enzyme that could transform glucose into the much sweeter sugar molecule called fructose.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

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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