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**Title:** Understanding High Blood Sugar on an Empty Stomach (Fasting Blood Sugar)
**Key Points:**
1. **Definition:** Empty blood sugar refers to glucose levels after an 8-hour fast. Normal: ≤99, Impaired Fasting Glucose: 100-125, Diabetes: ≥126.
2. **Impact:** High empty blood sugar leads to insulin resistance, glucose toxicity, and rapid deterioration of diabetes, affecting blood vessels and overall health.
3. **Main Culprits:**
* **Visceral Fat:** Excess abdominal fat releases stored sugar, increasing blood sugar levels. Reducing visceral fat is crucial.
* **Fatty Liver:** Insulin resistance in the liver causes uncontrolled sugar release. Improving fatty liver health helps resolve this issue.
4. **Solution:**
* **Exercise:** Regular physical activity to reduce fat cells, not just weight loss (which can also reduce muscle and moisture).
* **Patience:** Diabetes is a long-term condition (often developing over 5-10 years); improvement takes time and consistent effort.
5. **Additional Tips:**
* Manage stress (as it increases blood sugar levels).
* Continue exercising and dieting without getting discouraged by slow progress.
* Consider post-meal exercise (aerobic + anaerobic) for optimal benefits.
Here are the extracted key facts in short sentences, numbered for reference:
**Blood Sugar & Diabetes**
1. **Normal Empty Blood Sugar Level**: ≤ 99 mg/dL
2. **Impaired Fasting Glucose (Empty Blood Glucose Disorder)**: 100-125 mg/dL
3. **Diagnostic Standard for Diabetes**: ≥ 126 mg/dL (on an empty stomach)
**How the Body Regulates Blood Sugar**
4. **Insulin Release**: Begins when blood sugar rises above 70 mg/dL
5. **Insulin Function**: Orders liver, muscle, and fat cells to absorb sugar
6. **Blood Sugar Drop**: Occurs after organs absorb sugar, reducing insulin secretion
**Consequences of High Empty Blood Sugar**
7. **Continuous Insulin Secretion**: Leads to pancreas fatigue and potential necrosis
8. **Insulin Resistance**: Results from continuous insulin secretion, slowing insulin response
9. **Glucose Toxicity**: Causes pancreatic B-cell dysfunction and death
**Causes of High Empty Blood Sugar**
10. **Visceral Fat**: Contributes to high empty blood sugar, especially with waist circumference ≥ 80cm
11. **Fatty Liver**: Acts as a reservoir, releasing sugar into the blood, exacerbated by insulin resistance
12. **Other Causes**: Include stress, insomnia, hepatitis, etc. (though less significant than visceral fat and fatty liver)
**Improving High Empty Blood Sugar**
13. **Reducing Visceral Fat**: Essential for controlling empty blood sugar
14. **Improving Fatty Liver**: Also crucial; often linked to reducing visceral fat and addressing hyperlipidemia
15. **Effective Weight Loss**: Involves reducing fat cells through exercise, not just starving (which can lead to muscle and moisture loss)
16. **Exercise Importance**: Regular physical activity, especially post-meal exercise, helps manage blood sugar levels
17. **Stress Management**: High stress levels can increase blood sugar; managing stress is vital for diabetics
**Diabetes Management & Progress**
18. **Diabetes Development**: Often occurs 5-10 years before diagnosis, with gradual insulin resistance
19. **Improvement Rate**: Progress in reducing insulin resistance and improving blood sugar control is typically slow, requiring sustained effort.