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Role of the liver in Glucose Metabolism

HI!! subha here .. Today lets see about liver's glucose metabolism - so we can learn base about how diabetes kind of disease are evolving .... Glucose metabolism  - liver will capable of both storing and producing glucose . because of this  liver plays key role in maintaining the normal plasma glucose levels ~ 5mmol/L - glucose pool in the body is around 60 mmol/L, with food we may ingest upto 3000 mmol/day , muscles may remove up to 250 mmol/hour when we exercise - efficient buffering system is required to prevent excessive and dangerous glucose excursions  - while the insulin sensitive tissue they are adipose tissue and muscle will  express the glucose transporter , may help to get rid of the most of the glucose arriving from gut to the liver  and to a small extent to the kidneys are the only organs that can produce glucose when needed  - when glucose is absorbed from the gut, some of it may taken up by the liver, entering the hepatocyte from the sinusoid...

madhumeha (diabetes mellitus) do's and don'ts

 Pathya  (do's) 1.Cerals - Barley, special variety of rice (shyavaka, kodrava) wheat 2.Pulses - Green gram, Pigeon pea ,atasi, chicken pea (chana) 3. Fruit and vegetables - Patola ,bitter gourd,amalaki,haridra,black pepper 4.Others - Honey,betel nut, rock salt 5. Lifestyle - walking, playing, physical exercise, bathing 6.yava churna 7.yava lehya 8.laghava bhakshya (light eatables) 9.Ahara in prameha  • cooked Barley without adding any unctuous articles  •barley porridge  •roasted corn flour •old shali rice • bitter vegetables • Barley soaked in decoction of triphala and kept overnight should be mixed with honey 10.vyayama 11 bath 12.application of ointment made of ushira (vettiver) tvak (lavangapattai/karuvapattai) agaru (agalichandanam) chandanam  13.buttermilk Apathya (don'ts) 1. Cerals - newly harvested cerals, freshly harvested grains 2.Pulses - black gram 3. others - milk, curd , buttermilk, clarified butter ,oil, jaggery, alcohol,sugarcane products,be...