Having low blood sugar levels, or hypoglycemia, can be made even worse because Finding food when you’re a low energy state will be difficult Your brain will selfishly create more glucose transporters to hoard the remaining glucose in your brain Nausea as a result of hypoglycemia will make it difficult to eat A person with diabetes will overproduce insulin as a result

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