Now the Liver works in the Dark!!!!

When glucose isn't able to enter the body's cells, the body is unable to produce energy. When your body has no other energy sources, it will turn to digesting proteins (muscles) and fats for energy. Muscles will break down their own proteins, releasing amino acids, the building blocks of protein, into the blood stream. When the amino acids reach the liver they are converted to glucose.


For a person whose pancreas functions like it's supposed to, the glucose produced by the liver would trigger the pancreas to release insulin and let the glucose into the body's cells to produce energy. This would be a temporary... good thing for the body...


But for someone whose pancreas doesn't work right, all the liver is doing is dumping more sugar that's not needed in the bloodstream.
Unfortunately, the liver doesn't realize that there is already too much glucose in the blood because it doesn't test glucose levels like the pancreas does. The liver tests for insulin.

When insulin is not being produced, the liver is tricked into thinking the body is starving and needs more sugar. The liver will create more and more glucose as muscle is broken down. This has catastrophic effects.