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glucose

[gloo-kohs] / ˈglu koʊs /
NOUN
blood sugar
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These measures reflect how effectively the body regulates blood sugar and responds to insulin, the hormone that helps move glucose from the bloodstream into cells.

From Science Daily Jul. 24, 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

"Blood contains relatively high concentrations of glucose, and that's what the nanoparticles are competing against for GLUT1's attention," Oleh Taratula said.

From Science Daily Jul. 17, 2026

Rather than consuming both sugars equally, the E. coli cells had selectively consumed glucose first.

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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