Nigeria, Aug. 24 -- Type 2 diabetes has become one of the defining health challenges of the modern world. Hundreds of millions of people now live with the disease, and the number continues to climb despite decades of research, new medications, improved glucose monitoring, and an endless stream of dietary advice. Blood sugar has become one of the most familiar health numbers in medicine and among the general population.

Today, glucose is a widely vilified nutrient and at the same time a central nutrient in emergency medicine, where it is administered directly into the bloodstream as intravenous dextrose when life hangs in the balance. The question is, why does glucose regulation seem to fail so often in modern society? And why do the so-c...