How much glucose is present in your body?

Answer 1

Your blood sugar should be between 80 and 120mg/DL.

Your body will convert glucose first from carbohydrates, and if you deplete your glycogen storage (stored glucose) it will then go through a process called gluconeogenesis, in which it converts proteins to glucose for energy (including your muscle tissue).

The actual amount of glucose you need will depend on a variety of things such as your height, weight, sex, and physical activity.

Answer 2

The normal blood glucose level is between say 80 mg per 100 ml to 140 mg per 100 ml of blood. You have 3 liters of plasma in your blood. You have 11 liters of interstitial fluid in your body. Total makes 14 liters of extracellular fluid. So 80 * 10 * 14 makes 11,200 mg of glucose. You can round it up to 10,000 mg of glucose. That makes 10 grams. if you take 140 mg per 100 ml, you have 140 * 10 * 14. That makes 19600 mg. You round it up to make 20,000. That makes 20 grams of glucose. So you have only about 10 grams of glucose in fasting condition. You have only about 20 grams of glucose after taking food. 40 grams of glucose in the blood gives you blood level of 240 mg per 100 ml, making you frankly diabetic.

Answer 3

You need about 300 Calories per day. Say 2980 Calories for making round figure. You do not get all the calories from glucose. But suppose all these Calories are derived from glucose source. You get 4 Calories per gram of glucose. That makes 720 grams of glucose per day. You divide this figure by 24 to get per hour consumption. So you consume only 30 grams glucose per hour. That makes only 0.5 grams of glucose per minute. (Your brain can use glucose only, for it's the performance. So with less than 0.5 grams per minute, you get all the intellectual and emotional activity of the brain. Is is not the great average, that your brain gives?)