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Maintaining Blood Glucose Levels

In order to turn the food you eat into energy, your body needs to transform all those calories into glucose. As blood glucose levels rise, the pancreas will release insulin, which unlocks cells and allows the glucose to be used as energy. Additionally, insulin will take the glucose your body doesn’t need and store it away as fat. By slowing the rate your body turns food into glucose, Balance effectively limits the amount of insulin needed. This means instead of turning all that glucose in your body into more fat, your body will efficiently use that glucose for energy. In addition, between meals your body will enter a fat-burning state by generating glucagon, which works to raise low blood sugar levels by breaking down current fat stores.

Supporting Healthy Blood Glucose

In order to turn the food you eat into energy, your body needs to transform all those calories into glucose. As blood glucose levels rise, the pancreas will release insulin, which unlocks cells and allows the glucose to be used as energy. Additionally, insulin will take the glucose your body doesn’t need and store it away as fat. By slowing the rate your body turns food into glucose, Balance effectively limits the amount of insulin needed. This means instead of turning all that glucose in your body into more fat, your body will efficiently use that glucose for energy. In addition, between meals your body will enter a fat-burning state by generating glucagon, which works to raise low blood sugar levels by breaking down current fat stores.

Phytosterols

Balance further helps the body maintain healthy cholesterol with a blend of phytosterols. These natural compounds found in plants have a very similar chemical structure to cholesterol itself. So similar, in fact, that if phytosterols are present in the digestive system along with cholesterol, the proteins that transport cholesterol can’t tell the difference between the two. As a results, many phytosterols are picked up and stored in the bloodstream, while cholesterol is passed out of the body. Unicity Balance and 4–4–12 Balance works best when used in conjunction with a simple rule called 4–4–12. The 4–4–12 principle works to establish regular meal intervals, putting your body in a fat burning state between meals. After a high-protein breakfast like Unicity Complete, you wait at least 4 hours to eat lunch. After lunch, supplemented with Balance, you wait at least 4 hours to eat dinner. After your even meal, again paired with Balance, you wait at least 12 hours to eat breakfast the next morning. Balance and the 4–4–12 principle help you create periods of time when your body turns to fat stores to meet energy demands. We call these periods of time fat-burning zones.

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