What is hypoglaycymia?

Question

i need this quick.

Answer 1

In simple layman's language, hypoglycemia is the body's inability to properly handle the large amounts of sugar that the average American consumes today. It's an overload of sugar, alcohol, caffeine, tobacco and stress.

In medical terms, hypoglycemia is defined in relation to its cause. Functional hypoglycemia, the kind we are addressing here, is the oversecretion of insulin by the pancreas in response to a rapid rise in blood sugar or "glucose".

All carbohydrates (vegetables, fruits and grains, as well as simple table sugar), are broken down into simple sugars by the process of digestion. This sugar enters the blood stream as glucose and our level of blood sugar rises. The pancreas then secretes a hormone known as insulin into the blood in order to bring the glucose down to normal levels.

In hypoglycemia, the pancreas sends out too much insulin and the blood sugar plummets below the level necessary to maintain well-being.

Since all the cells of the body, especially the brain cells, use glucose for fuel, a blood glucose level that is too low starves the cells of needed fuel, causing both physical and emotional symptoms.

Answer 2

That is when you eat something and get all these sugars and colories in your system, then your system burns them off real quick dropping you down to the bottom instead of using them a few at a time and making them last all day.

Answer 3

Hypoglycemia means LOW blood sugar.

Answer 4

Low blood sugar

Answer 5

Less blood sugar levels causing dizziness, sweating etc. Eat some sugar candy or take glucose etc.

Answer 6

Low blood sugar (hypoglycemia)
http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/hypoglycemia/index.htm