In this series, there will be posts that will examine the disease process of diabetes, trying to  understand it from various angles and what we can do to better equip ourselves with the knowledge in layman’s terms so as to protect ourselves from the damages of this increasingly ubiquitous disease process.

Diabetes is simply blood glucose levels not in the proper range.  Most of us know that Pancreas secrets insulin which drives glucose into our cells so that we get energy from what we eat.

There are two types of diabetes

1.    Type I  results from the damage of the pancreas and it no longer produces insulin.  These people need external insulin injections at specific several intervals in a given day.

2.    Type II  diabetes, which is also known as Adult Onset Diabetes, is a much more complex process and we will be devoting most of our efforts in understanding the whole gamut of this.  In Type II, pancreas is still functioning, some times normally, but most often not so optimally.  The difficulty in this process is non receptive nature of the cells.  Cells become insulin resistant and require lot more brute force to drive the glucose into them.  We will examine what causes this and what can be done to avoid getting there.

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