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What Does Having High Blood Sugar Mean?

What Does Having High Blood Sugar Mean? (0:46)

High blood sugar occurs when your body cannot fully process the sugar or glucose from the food you eat. In this video, Athena Philis-Tsimikas, MD, an endocrinologist at Scripps Health, explains the role insulin plays.

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When you eat your meal normally, if it has something called carbohydrate in it, those carbohydrates, and that can be starches as in potatoes, and bread, or can be sugar as in fruit juice, and candy that gets absorbed into you blood stream, and then enters your cell. That glucose or sugar it uses energy, but if your insulin isn't working and those blood sugars remain too high, and it causes damage instead of helping you..