Glucose tolerance test

can still release energy from sugar, but in these conditions, its byproducts are alcohol and carbon dioxide. It is this carbon dioxide gas which makes the bubbles in dough, causing the dough to rise. Basically, each sugar needs to be converted to glucose to enable it to feed into respiration and it is this process which produces the gas which causes the foaming or inflation of the dough. The more sucrose that there was, the more inflated the balloons became.…

I have been employed by Shaun McDermott, the manager of my local football club Tummery Athletic FC, as a sports therapist. I have been asked to talk to his players about the 3 different energy systems in the body in order to develop his athlete’s knowledge and understanding of anatomy and physiology. I am hoping the talk will give them guidance and enable them to make adjustments to their current regime so that they are able to maximise performance as well as helping them to understand how their…

the dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitor sitagliptin. DPP-4 inhibitors are a new class of anti-diabetic drugs that exhibit different mechanisms of action from conventional anti-diabetic drugs.1 They inhance the body’s own ability to lower blood glucose when it is elevated. This action of…

light stage. Heterotrophs then use or eat autotrophs which help them live and that is how heterotrophs rely on autotrophs. The next phase of this process is cellular respiration. This process starts with creating energy, the main source of energy is glucose, and the energy is…

For this experiment, I wanted to make sure that I used a variety of substances so that I would have a range of pH levels as an outcome from the exercise. From this, I was surprised about the outcomes of several household items pH levels. For example, I was surprised about how three of the substances I tested came back with around the same pH level of 4: cranberry cocktail, lemon juice, and soy sauce. One reason I was surprised that these 3 substances had the same pH level was because I was…

Due to their weight, macromolecules make up a great part of a living organic cell. Biological molecules are put under groups based on the way they behave and the similarities they share. There are four main types of macromolecules, namely proteins, nucleic acids, fats and membrane lipids and carbohydrates (which include monosaccharides and polysaccharides). (Alberts, Walter, Bray, Hopkin, Johnson, & Lewis, 2015) There are four smaller organic molecule families which are the primary components of…

Lactose is a sugar found in milk and milk products. Lactase Is an enzyme found in the small intestine that breaks down lactose into simple sugars such as glucose. The substrate has to fight to bind with the enzyme lactase. The inhibitor tries to attach to the lactase and slow down the chemical reaction while the substrate does the opposite. The substrate increases the rate of the chemical reaction, this chemical reaction breaks down the lactose into sugars. This chemical reaction is imperative…

tested is sucrase. Sucrase is secreted within the small intestine which will be used to speed up hydrolysis reaction into the products glucose and fructose. Therefore, the pH within a solution of benedict’s reagent will be tested for its reaction rate. This experiment will test the hypothesis if pH increases, reaction rate increases as well. Materials and Methods: Four test tube vials were used to contain the solutions. Each vial’s solution totaled to five mL. Within…

What causes diabetes is when the body doesn’t produce enough insulin or doesn’t produce any insulin. Diabetes is an incurable disease. However people with type 2 diabetes most times go into remission. Remission is when all symptoms of diabetes can disappear. That can happen when people exercise daily and eat healthier and they manage to keep a healthy lifestyle. When at the borderline to getting diabetes you can easily prevent it by going to the doctor getting prescribed medicine and changing…

Diabetes is a problem with the body that causes glucose levels to rise higher than usual. The most common type, which is type 2 diabetes, is due to genetics and other environmental factors. It is most likely that genetics is the underlying cause for an individual’s susceptibility. The rise in the Asian Area is a direct result of urbanization and westernization. One of the most profound outcome of globalization has been the increase in the number and the easy accessibility of Westernize fast…