Sugar addiction: Discovery of a brain sugar switch
Saturday, August 13, 2016 - 09:02
in Health & Medicine
Researchers have discovered that our brain actively takes sugar from the blood. Prior to this, researchers had assumed that this was a purely passive process. The transportation of sugar into the brain is regulated by so-called glia cells that react to hormones such as insulin or leptin; previously it was thought that this was only possible for neurons.