Blood glucose control, diabetes and the urinary system

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A healthy adult volunteer participates in a nutritional trial. At 0 minutes, they ingest a carbohydrate-rich meal replacement shake. The graph in Figure 1 shows the subsequent changes in the concentration of glucose in their blood plasma over the next 120 minutes.

Figure 1: Line graph showing blood glucose concentration over 120 minutes

Explain why the concentration of glucose in the blood plasma decreases between 30 minutes and 75 minutes.

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