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  1. M

    Hypoglycemia and ME

    What do we know about ME and Hypoglycemia? Does ME cause Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar)? Does ME crashes immediately drop blood sugar even lower? Do many people have Hypoglycemia and they think it's ME, because the doctors haven't looked at Hypoglycemia and the symptoms are the same in many...
    • martinajane12
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    • anorexia cfs eating problems food disorders glucose glucose monitor hypoglycemia low blood sugar metabolic metabolism
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    • Forum: General Symptoms
  2. SNT Gatchaman

    FGF21 induces PGC-1⍺ and regulates carbohydrate and fatty acid metabolism during the adaptive starvation response (Potthoff et al, 2009)

    FGF21 induces PGC-1⍺ and regulates carbohydrate and fatty acid metabolism during the adaptive starvation response Matthew J. Potthoff, Takeshi Inagaki, Santhosh Satapati, Xunshan Ding, Tianteng He, Regina Goetz, Moosa Mohammadi, Brian N. Finck, David J. Mangelsdorf, Steven A. Kliewer, Shawn C...
  3. SNT Gatchaman

    Going Back to the Biology of FGF21: New Insights (Lewis et al, 2019)

    Going Back to the Biology of FGF21: New Insights Jo E. Lewis, Francis J.P. Ebling, Ricardo J. Samms, Kostas Tsintzas Fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) is a protein highly synthesized in the liver that exerts paracrine and endocrine control of many aspects of energy homeostasis in multiple...
  4. SNT Gatchaman

    Understanding the Physiology of FGF21 (Fisher and Maratos-Flier, 2015)

    Understanding the Physiology of FGF21 Ffolliott Martin Fisher and Eleftheria Maratos-Flier Fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) is a peptide hormone that is synthesized by several organs and regulates energy homeostasis. Excitement surrounding this relatively recently identified hormone is based...
  5. MarkRichardson

    Glucose v D-Ribose (St Marks Solution)

    I am making up some St Mark’s Solution and am wondering wether I can substitute Glucose for D-Ribose. Both are sugar but not exactly the same. I have lots of D-Ribose but no Glucose. Does it make much if any difference? If you don’t know then: St. Mark’s solution is a potassium-free glucose...