How does hypoglycemia work and why does it cause depressive moments when glucose isn’t present?
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Insulin reduces sugar when levels are high. When there is no sugar and there is insulin, then you run in a deficit. More like depressive moments I would say it’s irritability. I am no doctor but a father of a girl with diabetes 1.
Not a doctor but a microbiologist. My assumption is it’s caused from the body’s reaction to not getting enough energy which causes exhaustion. I’m also unsure if the other mechanisms used to generate energy (like gluconeogenesis) are active in these situations.
can you elaborate more? i have diabetes, and on hypoglycemies, feel a lor of things, but not depression …
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