Glucose is
the fuel our bodies run on.
When we eat,
and our food is processed, the pancreas is
supposed to
produce the right amount of glucose from our
blood
automatically and release the right amount of insulin
into our
blood.
In people
with diabetes, little to no insulin is produced
or the
body’s cells don’t respond correctly to the insulin
that is
produced. Therefore the glucose builds up and
overflows
into the urine and passes out of the body.
This is how
the body loses its main source of fuel even
though the
bloodstream contains good amounts of the natural
glucose.
There are
three types of diabetes, type 1, type 2 and
gestational
diabetes. People who have type 1 are known as
insulin-dependent.
This is an
autoimmune disease where the body’s natural
system is
fighting against another part of the body. In the
case of type
1 diabetes, the system attacks the insulin
producing
cells and destroys them.
Therefore
the pancreas can produce little to no insulin.
These people
are in need of daily injections of insulin to
live. Five
to ten percent of diabetes cases are type 1 in
the US.
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