Your body produces it naturally, primarily in the liver, but levels can fluctuate based on age, diet, environmental stressors, and sleep quality
When your cells aren't constantly fighting off oxidative damage, they can focus more energy on building and repairing the protein structures that keep you moving
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[1] For people with type 2 diabetes, maintaining consistent blood glucose control is crucial to prevent both short-term complications (such as hyperglycaemia) and long-term damage to blood vessels, nerves, kidneys, and eyes
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This is consistent with the previous findings that hypoxia-response genes were upregulated in the islets of diabetic, but not prediabetic, db/db mice in an inverse relationship with unfolded protein response gene expression 28,33