Your cells absorb glucose and convert it into energy to drive the cell.

Insulin signals muscle and fat cells to absorb glucose from food.

Baseline levels of insulin do not signal muscle and fat cells to absorb glucose.

His body's ability to make insulin, the hormone that tells cells to absorb glucose (blood sugar), was shutting down.

Insulin stimulates cells to absorb enough glucose from the blood for the energy, or fuel, that they need.

Insulin causes cells in the liver, skeletal muscles, and fat tissue to absorb glucose from the blood.

After you eat, your blood absorbs glucose.

You feel tired because your cells cannot absorb glucose, leaving them with nothing to burn for energy.

Insulin: Injecting insulin under the skin causes body tissues to absorb glucose, lowering blood sugar.

Certain cell types such as fat and muscle cells require insulin to absorb glucose.