Yes: Blood sugar is monitored by the brain. When necessary, it sends a message to the pancreas where special cells secrete insulin. If you keep on "bombarding" the brain with sugar, the messaes to the pancreas get messed up and you get hypoglycemia. That is why sugar reverses hypoglycemia but "sets you up" for more of the hypoglyemic episodes. Paradoxically, sugar is the cause of hypog-.
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