What Causes Blood Sugar to Rise in Non-Diabetics?
High blood sugar, also called hyperglycemia, occurs when there is too much glucose in the blood. High blood sugar is the primary symptom that underlies diabetes, but it can also occur in people who don’t have type 1 or type 2 diabetes, either because of stress or trauma, or gradually as a result of certain chronic conditions.
It is important to manage high blood sugar, even if you don’t have diabetes, because elevated blood glucose can delay your ability to heal, increase your risk of infections, and cause irreversible damage to your nerves, blood vessels, and organs, such as your eyes and kidneys. Blood vessel damage from high blood sugar also increases your risk of heart attack and stroke.
The body obtains glucose mainly by consuming carbohydrates, but also through the breakdown of glycogen to glucose that primarily occurs in the liver. While 50% to 80% of glucose is used by the brain, kidneys, and red blood cells for energy, the remaining supply of glucose is used to produce energy. It is stored as glycogen in the liver and muscles, and can be tapped into at a later time for energy or converted into fat tissue.
In normal conditions, blood glucose levels are regulated by the hormone insulin which maintains steady blood sugar by increasing the uptake and storage of glucose and decreasing inflammatory proteins that raise blood sugar when there is an excess of glucose in the blood.
Certain conditions can increase your blood glucose levels by interfering with the ability of insulin to transport glucose out of the bloodstream. When this occurs, you develop hyperglycemia, which puts you at an increased risk of pre-diabetes, diabetes, and related complications. Pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes are reversible, but will always remain in the background like a shrunken fat cell after dieting. Just waiting to return. Sugar rots from the inside out! Take steps now to offset the internal inflammation and subsequent damage that can be happen from this silent killer. Is it time to make some lifestyle changes?
Extracts taken from https://www.verywellhealth.com