Fasting Blood Sugar (FBS) 空腹血糖, 断食中の血グアー, 단식 혈액 검사

The human body is a weird and mysterious place. I'm especially interested in how the brain works, where neurosurgeons and researchers are still trying to get to the bottom of what goes on inside the hippocampus, the cerebellum, the brain stem, and how they all fit with each other. Why do some people's brains just work differently than others? The study of the brain, aka neuroscience, is only studying a tiny portion of our human structures, but it's as wide of a field as astronomy and cosmology, study of the universe, or marine biology, what is in the bottom of our oceans. Just like sometimes humans as a whole take the accepted opinion of something and overgeneralize it (history can be misleading and overly reductive), I'm pretty sure neuroscience has something we all think is true, like there's only a left brain and right, all of us are either left brain or right brain thinkers, or there's only long-term or short-term memory, about the brain we just can't explain yet, and we have it all wrong. My most immediate questions about the brain are, how can I get it to remember a vast array of information most efficiently, and for the longest amount of time? I'm soon going to turn 40 which I once thought (based on some cartoon TV show I watched when I was a kid) is why you peak and stop learning new information. Wrong. Neurogenesis, the process of growing new brain cells, continues well into one's 70s and into old age, so it's true that we never stop learning. However, my hypothesis is that we stop learning as fast (or have already now, for awhile), and the rate of speed is slow. My secondary question for the brain is, why does it seem like other people react quicker than me in chess and in recalling trivia questions? Especially in chess, some people seem to see something within fractions of a second of a chess board and know what the best move is, whereas I'll have to consider all the factors and eventually get there after weighing all the options. In trivia, it takes me a second or two to even process what the question was asking and to read all 6 lines of a clue, for example, where some contestants I see on TV seem to take one glance at the screen and start smiling because they know it. It's like book "Blink" by economist Malcolm Gladwell, where he discusses the power of the adaptive subconcious and judging something within milliseconds, and something MJ uses as a refrain, "Go with your first guess." I would go with my first guess, but it's wrong a lot of the time because I haven't even digested what I'm supposed to be guessing yet! But at least we have some of the basic methods and tests to make sure we catch the most prevalent diseases and those that can do the most harm. Like diabetes- my mom has diabetes, so I'm at risk of getting it, and I'm all for using the A1c test, aka Hemoglobin A1c test, to test for any chance of pre-diabetes. Unlike FBS, A1C is testing blood sugar levels over a longer period of time, like 2 or 3 months, so it's like tracking you and looking at it from a broad perspective, not just catching you on a bad day or something. Fasting blood sugar is also a great way to test for blood sugar, and why it's probably a good idea before going into a doctor's office in the morning not to eat anything....they might need the 8-12 hours of fasting to test the FBS I realize now I ate WAY too much sugar as a kid and the American diet has way too much sugar in it. It's an epidemic of Big Sugar, really. Like even the grape in front of me has sugar, it's just natural sugar and in a watery form, but that should be enough to satiate my "sweet tooth" but instead we go on this hedonic treadmill of needing more and more sugar just to satisfy our sugar crunch. It's a race to the bottom. I wish Red Cross would give out better treats than just cookies and an assortment of high-sugar foods right after your blood donation. As I told MJ, Red Cross has an incentive to keep their donors alive, so stop feeding them junk! I would be much more inclined to go to a donation if there was a free sandwich at the end of it or something, or a coupon to a healthy restaurant chain, not Famous Amos cookies, Reese's peanut butter cups, or Oreos. I can feel my blood sugar going up just looking at those foods, and nowadays they don't do anything for me: I get queasy afterwards, my breath feels sour from the sugar aftertaste, I dont' run well afterwards. And much like drugs or alcohol, I don't get any rush or anything from sugar. It doesn't do it for me? America needs the 12-step program for quitting sugar: 1.) admit we have a problem, 2.) slowly wean yourself off sugar, 3.) replace cravings of sugar with something else delicious and reward yourself with those foods. Don't reward yourself like the Red Cross does with more sugar.