The liver is responsible for maintaining blood glucose levels by producing, storing, and tempering glucose output.

“so what something miraculous is actually happening given the glucose thirst of our brains and all of the glucose that is being supplied to our brains right now as we have this discussion for the next hour or so is coming from our liver our liver is the thing that is meeting out that amount of glucose which is kind of remarkable as I said because it knows to not do too little and not do too much so it can make glucose it can store glucose and it can temper this output”

“the liver does which is regulate blood glucose — and I I think that's something that's — it's almost impossible to describe how perfect the liver is able to do this including in someone with type 2 diabetes which we'll talk about where you know you end up being about 2x too much blood sugar but that's still a relatively — narrow band with which blood glucose is regulated compared to the extremes right if it ever Falls below about 50 milligrams per deciliter or half a teaspoon total glucose circulating you're dead if it really ever gets above 4 or 500 acutely like you're dead and that it can keep most of us around 100 to 200 is incredible at the minute by minute second byc — deviation”