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  1. New simulation algorithm (generation 3) is live on butterbei.de/en/pages/sim

    Simulate a body's reply to food without having to invest in and wear a continuous glucose monitor, without drawing blood to check your insulin reply to foods, and without waiting an hour to see how your body replies.

    Use the interactive simulation or simulate a full day-plan for a single day or 3 months to see what nutrition does to the body.

    #food #nutrition #science #insulin #glucose #bloodsugar #diabetes

  2. New simulation algorithm (generation 3) is live on butterbei.de/en/pages/sim

    Simulate a body's reply to food without having to invest in and wear a continuous glucose monitor, without drawing blood to check your insulin reply to foods, and without waiting an hour to see how your body replies.

    Use the interactive simulation or simulate a full day-plan for a single day or 3 months to see what nutrition does to the body.

    #food #nutrition #science #insulin #glucose #bloodsugar #diabetes

  3. Sugars are essential #biomolecules, serving as metabolic fuels, nucleic acid backbone components and structural or energy-storage polymers.

    A central question in origin-of-life research is how monosaccharides formed on the primitive Earth, as laboratory experiments under #prebiotic conditions yield insufficient concentrations.

    The detection of #ribose, #glucose and other monosaccharides in #asteroids and #meteorites suggests an exogenous origin, possibly in the interstellar medium (ISM) before meteoritic parent-body formation.

    However, no #sugar has been observed in the ISM so far.

    Now astronomers report the discovery of #erythrulose, a chiral four-carbon ketose, in the ISM.

    Erythrulose appears to be at least eight times more abundant than analogous three-carbon sugars, which remain undetected in our ultrasensitive observations.

    Quantum chemical and astrochemical models indicate that erythrulose forms efficiently on interstellar dust grains from simpler two-carbon aldehydes and alcohols.

    As ketoses readily isomerize into aldoses in aqueous conditions, interstellar erythrulose could have contributed to the sugar inventory available for early metabolic and replication processes.

    #astrobiology #astronomy
    nature.com/articles/s41550-026

  4. Sugars are essential #biomolecules, serving as metabolic fuels, nucleic acid backbone components and structural or energy-storage polymers.

    A central question in origin-of-life research is how monosaccharides formed on the primitive Earth, as laboratory experiments under #prebiotic conditions yield insufficient concentrations.

    The detection of #ribose, #glucose and other monosaccharides in #asteroids and #meteorites suggests an exogenous origin, possibly in the interstellar medium (ISM) before meteoritic parent-body formation.

    However, no #sugar has been observed in the ISM so far.

    Now astronomers report the discovery of #erythrulose, a chiral four-carbon ketose, in the ISM.

    Erythrulose appears to be at least eight times more abundant than analogous three-carbon sugars, which remain undetected in our ultrasensitive observations.

    Quantum chemical and astrochemical models indicate that erythrulose forms efficiently on interstellar dust grains from simpler two-carbon aldehydes and alcohols.

    As ketoses readily isomerize into aldoses in aqueous conditions, interstellar erythrulose could have contributed to the sugar inventory available for early metabolic and replication processes.

    #astrobiology #astronomy
    nature.com/articles/s41550-026

  5. I don't get it. Left and right I'm reading about magic ingredients that help people stabilize their blood sugar. How about not pumping it up to begin with? Then you won't need magic to control it.

    Q: What's the (total) amount of glucose you have in your blood at any time, given a healthy level? Rule of thumb: Don't eat more than that in 1 sitting of carbs.

    Find the answer, and more, here: butterbei.de/en/posts/how-many
    (Spoiler: Ctrl+F any given moment)

    #food #nutrition #glucose #diabetes #health

  6. I don't get it. Left and right I'm reading about magic ingredients that help people stabilize their blood sugar. How about not pumping it up to begin with? Then you won't need magic to control it.

    Q: What's the (total) amount of glucose you have in your blood at any time, given a healthy level? Rule of thumb: Don't eat more than that in 1 sitting of carbs.

    Find the answer, and more, here: butterbei.de/en/posts/how-many
    (Spoiler: Ctrl+F any given moment)

    #food #nutrition #glucose #diabetes #health

  7. If we meet: pick up a mnemonic to hand over to someone else who can make good use of it (format: business card)

    If we don't meet: just tell them. Works without paper mnemonic as well.

    (Card is german, but the site is 97% bilingual)

    #nutrition #health #food #bloodsugar #glucose #insulin #t1d #t2d

  8. If we meet: pick up a mnemonic to hand over to someone else who can make good use of it (format: business card)

    If we don't meet: just tell them. Works without paper mnemonic as well.

    (Card is german, but the site is 97% bilingual)

    #nutrition #health #food #bloodsugar #glucose #insulin #t1d #t2d

  9. What is the role of the most abundant #hormone, adiponectin, in metabolic regulation when calories are limited? This study by Yoshiko Ikushima, William Cawthorn &co reveals that adiponectin lowers #glucose and alters nutrient #metabolism under caloric restriction

    plos.io/4xCNScc

  10. What is the role of the most abundant #hormone, adiponectin, in metabolic regulation when calories are limited? This study by Yoshiko Ikushima, William Cawthorn &co reveals that adiponectin lowers #glucose and alters nutrient #metabolism under caloric restriction

    plos.io/4xCNScc

  11. A mouse study finds that fructose and glucose affect different signaling pathways from the gut to the brain, and caloric equivalents result in less activation of receptor neurons in the brain by fructose than by glucose. This did not affect food intake, however, evidently because fructose increases intestinal water content and feelings of satiety.

    Summary: eurekalert.org/news-releases/1

    Original paper: cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896

    #Science #Health #Diet #Sugar #Fructose #Glucose

  12. A mouse study finds that fructose and glucose affect different signaling pathways from the gut to the brain, and caloric equivalents result in less activation of receptor neurons in the brain by fructose than by glucose. This did not affect food intake, however, evidently because fructose increases intestinal water content and feelings of satiety.

    Summary: eurekalert.org/news-releases/1

    Original paper: cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896

    #Science #Health #Diet #Sugar #Fructose #Glucose

  13. Most diabetes apps either track everything and overwhelm you or nothing in between.
    Glu Sight connects your daily glucose readings to an estimated A1C, so you can see the longer-term picture alongside your day-to-day numbers.

    about.glusight.app/resources/b

    #glucose #diabetes #a1c #hba1c

  14. This is an odd one. Glucose monitors that didn't meet quality standards were stolen and sold to customers.

    "Dexcom Uncovers Theft of Scrapped Product, Notifies Potentially Impacted Users"

    fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-

    #diabetes #glucose #dexcom #safety

  15. The #circadian clock & cellular #metabolism are tightly coupled. This Primer explores a @plosbiology.org study showing how #glucose metabolism changes during the day in #Drosophila and how it is disrupted in clock & sleep mutants. Paper: plos.io/3Olm1M1 Primer: plos.io/4sUov2g

  16. How do #circadian clocks regulate glucose processing? By integrating human metabolite profiling with isotope-tracing in #Drosophila, this study defines daily rhythms in #glucose utilization that are influenced by circadian timing @PLOSBiology plos.io/3Olm1M1

  17. So again i ate California rolls yesterday and only lite-sugar candy in addition to that, and my blood sugar (glucose) saturation is down from 7,9 to 6,4 so - so yeah Cali rolls are ok!

    Reference glucose values are 4,0-6,0 and the manageable range is 3,9 to 8,4.

    The reason i was sceptical earlier was that i had eaten Cali rolls earlier and saw my blood sugar spike, but wasn't sure that they were the reason for the increase.

    #diabetes #californiarolls #glucose

  18. Want to be in the interactive driver's seat of this simulation, add food, pick an organism's response/metabolic health?

    These curves need some tuning, but can already provide insight.

    Looking for someone to check for realism or to find some more or less obvious issues with them.

    DM or reply for access (it's a *noncommercial* side project)

    #nutrition #glucose #food #keto #ketosis #diabetes #metabolism #metabolismresearch