<h1 id="concepts">Concepts<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#concepts"></a></h1>
<h2 id="general">General<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#general"></a></h2>
<h3 id="fasting-blood-glucose">Fasting Blood Glucose<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#fasting-blood-glucose"></a></h3>
<ul>
<li>
<p>source: <a href="/notes/VotPnQqwNxZwinuM#^iTMnEFyrGtCqaGRU">Glucose</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>alias: FBG</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>glucose levels after not having calories for 8 hours</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="insulin">Insulin<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#insulin"></a></h3>
<ul>
<li>
<p>source: <a href="/notes/VotPnQqwNxZwinuM#^iTMnEFyrGtCqaGRU">Glucose</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>helps with glucose uptake</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>also has other functions (all cells have insulin receptors)</p>
<ul>
<li>eg. liver use insulin to help process glucose and fat</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="conditions">Conditions<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#conditions"></a></h2>
<h3 id="insulin-resistance">Insulin Resistance<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#insulin-resistance"></a></h3>
<ul>
<li>
<p>source: <a href="/notes/VotPnQqwNxZwinuM#^iTMnEFyrGtCqaGRU">Glucose</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>potentially affects 88% of adults in the US</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>symptomps</p>
<ul>
<li>higher levels of insulin in blood</li>
<li>insulin doesn't work as well in certain cells
<ul>
<li>cells that still process insulin normally now get flooded with too much glucose</li>
<li>this is what happens in polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), most common cause of infertility in woman
<ul>
<li>too much insulin causing ovaries to produce less estrogen</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>consequence</p>
<ul>
<li>heart disease</li>
<li>diabetes</li>
<li>infertility</li>
<li>Alzheimer's</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>occurs when <strong>some cells</strong> don't respond to insulin</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="post-meal-hyperglycemia">Post Meal Hyperglycemia<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#post-meal-hyperglycemia"></a></h3>
<ul>
<li>defined as glucose over 140mg/dl after 1-2h after a meal</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="hypoglycemia">Hypoglycemia<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#hypoglycemia"></a></h3>
<ul>
<li>glucose too low</li>
<li>detail
<ul>
<li>release epinephrine (adrenaline)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>symptoms
<ul>
<li>fast heart rate</li>
<li>sweating</li>
<li>anxiety</li>
<li>confusion</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>long term
<ul>
<li>seizure</li>
<li>coma</li>
<li>death</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>

Concepts

kevin-public


## Welcome to my [Digital Garden](https://joelhooks.com/digital-garden) 🌱

I'm **Kevin**, founder of [Dendron](https://dendron.so/) ([YCW21](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29176158)) - an open-source, local-first, knowledge base for developers. Our goal is to help devs access and structure all the information they have ever come across using plain text, markdown, and version control. 


As a point of reference, I made Dendron because I wanted a better way of managing my own corpus of **30K+ notes**. Dendron is the result of a decade of experimenting with different tools and systems. 

The end result is [[A Hierarchy First Approach to Note Taking|dendron://kevin-blog/blog.pkm.2020-08-24-a-hierarchy-first-approach-to-note-taking]], a system that helped me instantly access any information I've noted before. 

You are reading my personal site which is managed and published using Dendron. You can [clone this site locally](https://github.com/kevinslin/kevin-public-vault) or [make your own](https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/4ushYTDoX0TYQ1FDtGQSg). 


## Navigating the Garden

The advantage of a garden is that it is non-linear and can offer much more context than a linear blog. This is also its greatest downside as it can be hard to know where to begin. If you want to ease into this experience and want a linear feed of blog posts, I would recommend starting off with the [[Blog|dendron://kevin-blog/blog]] hierarchy. 

If you are feeling more adventurous, you can read about how this blog is structured below and go down your own trail!

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## Contact

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## Working in the Open

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