The Importance Of Blood Glucose In Sports

During immense physical activity the blood glucose level will drop. This is due to your body needing and using more energy, so it is using up the glucose in the blood. For example during the rainbow rage athletes could expect to see their blood glucose levels continually drop throughout the 106 km track. Due to the intensity of the track and the distance their blood glucose levels will get very low and the alpha cells will be struggling to secrete enough glucagon to make sure the liver can keep up with the bodies glucose demands. Even with the adrenal glands secreting epinephrine the liver still won’t be able to produce enough glucose to keep the blood glucose levels within the normal range. The first response to this is the stimulation of …show more content…
The athlete may also need to eat something such as a food with carbohydrates as carbohydrates boost blood glucose levels the most. This food will then be digested and during the digestion extra glucose will be taken from the food therefore increasing the blood glucose levels again, although this is more of a long term way and may take a while to work. These will happen throughout the event and an athlete 's blood glucose levels will rise and drop in relation to how much activity they do, how many snacks they eat and how much adrenalin their adrenal medulla produces. This is how you and your body have to regulate your blood glucose levels when you put yourself in an external environment where you are doing something which causes a change in your blood glucose …show more content…
It is an adaptive advantage for any animal to be able to regulate and keep a stable internal environment. The reason is because it means that the animal in this specific case humans are able to occupy different niches and environment with different strains on the body. For example years and years ago people would have had to hunt for food and others would have been the ones to stay home and clean or cook. They both did separate things with different intensity levels which would affect their blood glucose levels in different ways. The people hunting for food would need homeostasis as their blood glucose levels would get low after all the running and hunting whereas the people staying at home would possibly end up with high blood glucose levels that need lowering if they aren’t doing much work. That makes this an advantage as without homeostasis these people would have extreme difficulties trying to do their everyday activities without having one of the side effects of high or low blood glucose. It also means that these beings are able to produce more offspring as they have the abilities to regulate their blood glucose decreasing their chance of