glucose
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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
To investigate how the sugars influence the brain, researchers recorded neural activity in mice after exposure to fructose and glucose.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026
Scientists at the Monell Chemical Senses Center discovered that fructose and glucose communicate with the brain through separate gut-brain pathways.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026
When they switched back to glucose, these enzymes disappeared and glucose-digesting enzymes reappeared.
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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Nutrition - Introductory
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Photosynthesis - Middle School
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