Diabetes
Diabetes is a growing challenge in this country. With our population at an all time high in weight gain and a low in health care, the dilemma is only growing.
Diabetes is a disease of the metabolism. Our metabolism is the way our bodies use digested food for energy and growth.
Generally food that is processed through our bodies is broken down by digestive juices into a sugar called glucose.Glucose is the fuel our bodies run on.
Whilst we eat, and our food is processed, the pancreas is supposed to create the right amount of glucose from our blood involuntarily and release the right amount of insulin into our blood.
In folks with diabetes, little to no insulin is produced Or the body’s cells don’t respond properly 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 most important 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. folks who have type 1 are identified as insulin-dependent.
This is an autoimmune disease where the body’s natural system is fighting against another part of the body. In the instance of type 1 diabetes, the system attacks the insulin producing cells and destroys them.
Therefore the pancreas can yield little to no insulin. These people are in need of daily injections of insulin to live on. Five to ten percent of diabetes cases are type 1 in the US.
