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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/making-sense-of-hypoglycemia/">Making Sense of Hypoglycemia</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted September 18, 2007 at 02:00 PM by Katie Drummond</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">When you feel exhausted and doctors can’t find a cause, they often diagnose chronic fatigue syndrome. They used to diagnose hypoglycemia. If your doctor tells you that you suffer from hypoglycemia, he must then tell you the cause because low blood sugar is the result of something going wrong in your body. It is not a cause. Your brain gets more than 98% of its energy from sugar in your bloodstream. There is only enough sugar in your bloodstream to last about three minutes, so your liver constantly releases sugar from its cells into your bloodstream. But your liver can store only enough sugar to last 12 hours at rest, so it must manufacture new sugar from protein and other energy stores. When blood sugar levels drop, you may feel anxious, shaky, sweaty, hungry, a tingling…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/making-sense-of-hypoglycemia/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/making-sense-of-hypoglycemia/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/making-sense-of-hypoglycemia/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/making-sense-of-hypoglycemia/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-health/">her-health</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-news/">her-news</a><br /><br /> </P>