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An Overview of Diabetes
Diabetes is the body’s inability to produce insulin or resistance to it. Depending on what type a person has developed, type I or type II the problem is with the management of balancing the right amount of glucose in the body. When a person has diabetes, the food they eat that turns into simple sugar in the blood called “glucose” that are used by the body as fuel to function normally stays in the blood, instead of being absorbed by the cells. The insulin hormone helps the transition of glucose from the blood stream to enter the cells providing energy or fuel. In affected individuals, this process is impaired or altogether not functioning.
In type I diabetes, the affected person is no longer producing insulin hormone from the pancreas and will need a constant supply of injected insulin to help the glucose in the bloodstream travel and be absorbed by the cells. In type II diabetes, the patient is still producing the hormone, but it seems that body has become developed immunity and the cells of their body are not “hungry” receptors, depriving them of energy to function properly. When this happens the blood sugar or glucose remains in the blood stream, and concentrated amount of sugar in the blood can damage many internal organs overtime. Many affected patients of type II diabetes are not aware of their disease because they may not be suffering from any symptoms, but can be later diagnose through a routine check up.
