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Wednesday, March 27, 2019

51. Diabetes - Explained

What is diabetes?

You'd guess my first question: Do you like to consume sweet things? Well, too much of one thing leads to addiction, a bad thing.


When you eat sugar, your body will produce insulin. Insulin is a chemical compound that broadcasts information to your entire body, that there's sugar. Last but not least, sugar is one important ingredient to generate energy.

If you eat sugar a lot, your body will generate a lot of energies. But, how much energy do you use everyday?

There's a limit to how much energy you can use in a day, and so, the body knows how to stop releasing the energy, and store the energy instead. The cells will store the energy in your blood stream.


Now, if you have a lot of sugar stocks, even if insulin broadcasts sugar availability, none of your body cells will respond, as they sense that sugars are all around them already. If you keep this condition, your body cells have become accustomed to ignoring sugar information, and so, all sugars are going to be distributed throughout your blood AGAIN.

You have finally become sweet.


That's how diabetes type 2 is forming up. As for diabetes type 1, causes are still unknown, but the body fails to create insulin. Nothing informs all cells that there's sugar, and the cells don't bother to find out either. (Hey, it's not in their skill sets).


There's also a type 3 diabetes, and it only occurs to non-diabetic pregnant women. Normally, this is because the expecting Mom has sugar stocks in her blood stream, but she isn't sweet yet (not declared as having diabetic yet). Then, she became pregnant, causing all cells to produce twice the energy (for the baby's sake), and the cells somehow overproduce sugar stocks. The baby will get affected and so, please consult to a physician to treat this condition, for both Mom and the baby.

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