In response, your pancreas pumps out a flood of insulin to bring your blood sugar back down by escorting that sugar—in the form of glucose—to the cells that are its end users. What often happens, though, is that your pancreas miscalculates the amount of insulin needed and releases too much; so instead of bringing your blood sugar to baseline, it gobbles up too much glucose and leaves you with extremely low blood sugar—despite the fact that you just stuffed yourself.
