Dr Kiel quickly reviews sugar and carbohydrate metabolism and makes it as easy to understand as possible.

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I wanted to take a few minutes to discuss the basics of how your body metabolizes carbohydrates in general, and specifically sugar. In order to understand why certain dietary choices are good or bad for you, it’s important to understand the basics and how it affects your body. This video is designed for people with little-to-no science background to help simplify how carb metabolism works in our body. I’m going to intentionally glaze over some of the more detail oriented aspects and focus on the larger picture.

The purpose of food, including sugars, fats and proteins is to sustain the body. One of the major components of this sustenance is to maintain a basal blood sugar level that allows your body to function. All your vital organs – including your brain, heart, kidneys etc as well as your skeletal muscle – depend on glucose as it’s primary source of energy. This energy, which occurs at the cellular level drives everything in your body from head to toe.

Glycemic Index

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USDA nutritional database

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Carbohydrate metabolism is complicated but you should understand how it works. Carbs can be referred to as starches, sugar, glucose, monosaccharide, polysaccharide, fructose, galactose, lactose, maltose, and sucrose. The purpose is to produce cellular energy, adenosine triphosphate, ATP and includes electron transports chain. This is known as aerobic respiratory and includes the citrus acid cycle, TCA, electron transport chain. There are many sources of carbs, they can be simple or complex. You should understand carb cycling, deficit, metabolism, anabolism, catabolism, breakdown, macromolecules, macronutrients, synthesis, counting carbs, daily requirements, diabetes mellitus, digestion, glycogen, gluconeogenesis, and glycolysis as it’s all very important and complex.