allowing them to take them in to be processed.When the insulin level is insufficient, the blood sugar level rises and the condition is classified as diabetes.Thats why type 2 diabetes is what it is.With type 2, a person with normal insulin production simply eats more foods that are converted into sugars than their body can handle -- meaning,......
More specifically, insulin is a hormone that "makes cells more permeable" to sugars, allowing them to take them in to be processed. When the insulin level is insufficient, the blood sugar level rises and the condition is classified as diabetes.
That's why type 2 diabetes is what it is. With type 2, a person with normal insulin production simply eats more foods that are converted into sugars than their body can handle -- meaning, they eat so much that the body can't produce enough insulin fast enough to get the cells to consume fast enough to bring the blood sugar levels back down to safe levels. The result is the same as type 1 diabetes -- blood sugar level rises to dangerous levels.
It is important to note that the person does not have to strictly eat sugar for this to happen -- carbohydrates are broken down into simple sugars; so eating breads, pastries, pasta, or even drinking too much beer will do it. Not exercising (not giving the body to metabolize sugars in mass quantities) help exacerbate the condition.
woof woof is not strictly correct.
Insulin is a hormone that removes sugar from your blood, and stores it in long term energy supplies.
type one (juvenile onset) is genetic and is an inability of the pancreas to produce insulin therefore injections are required to replace it.
type 2 (adult onset) occurs due to diet and lifestyle. If you live a particularly sedentary lifestyle and eat ingest mainly sugars in your diet you will have continuously high levels of insulin being released. cells in the body contain receptors that respond to insulin, however if they are continuously stimulated by high levels of insulin they become unresponsive. this means that the insulin released has less and less of an effect. It is not the bodys inabilty to cope with the amount of t he sugar it is a gradual break down in the responsiveness. the main treatment for T2 diabetes is a strict diet control.
With both T1 and T2, having excessively sugar (hyperglycemia) or not enough sugar (hypoglycemia) can result in comas and eventually death if normal levels are not restored.
