excess sugar in your diet.
High Blood Sugar, Glycation, and Swelling
When you eat refined carbohydrates or sugars, it raises your blood sugar levels. That sugar doesn’t just float around harmlessly. It attaches to proteins in your blood, including hemoglobin — the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen.
This binding process is called glycation.
Glycation = sugar molecules attaching to blood proteins.
It’s what the A1C test measures. A1C is essentially a 3-month average of how much sugar is “stuck” to your blood cells.
Once sugar sticks to your blood
