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People who have Diabetes have a lack of insulin in their blood. Insulin is made in an organ called the pancreas. Insulin is important to allow glucose (blood sugar) to get into the cells of the body. Put another way, insulin opens the door to let blood sugar to enter most cells in the body. Blood sugar is a food for the bodies cells. If insulin is low or absent in the blood then the cells don't get fed the blood sugar they need. If the blood sugar can not get into the bodies cells then it builds up in the blood stream and the sugar count increases on the blood tests that we do. Also, as the blood sugar increases and can not get into the bodies cells it has the effect of drawing water out of the cells and shrinks them up making them even less healthy.
The nerves in the body are affected a bit differently. Nerve cells will allow blood sugar in with out insulin, however without insulin present the sugar is not used by the nerve cell properly and the sugar accumulates in the cell. Over time this will damage the nerve cell and cause the nerve to die. This causes numbness and tingling in the feet and sometimes in the hands.Blood vessels are also made up of cells. As the sugar builds up in these cells it swells them up and this causes a narrowing of the blood vessel. This causes a decrease in the circulation to the feet, the kidneys and the eyes. This is why people with diabetes often loose their legs their eye sight and kidney function.
It is very important that people with diabetes learn about their condition, control their blood sugar,and exercise.
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Today, there are at least 20 million people living with diabetes in America and the sad part is that it is possible to prevent and heal pre-diabetes and diabetes type 2 naturally with balanced nutrition, and basic exercise.
People at risk of getting the disease drop by a staggering 60 percent if they manage to lose just 10 pounds by following a healthy diet and engage in regular exercise such as walking, plutowegner@gmailDOTcom ( add . instead of DOT according to a report published in the New England Journal of Medicine. (May 3, 2001
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pancreas's
Whats the carbohydrate that circulates in your body and provides energy for your cells?
sugars
What term best describes a failure of the body cells to respond to secreation of insulin?
Type one diabetes
How does diabetes affect the bodys ability to make insulin?
Because when diabetes inters the body, it makes the beta cells that produce the insulin look like the intruders. So the body's immune system attacks and kills all of the beta cells.
How does diabetes affect the level of glucose in the blood and in body cells?
The pancreas has cells which produce insulin. Insulin allows the body's cells to absorb glucose from the bloodstream. Diabetes is an auto-immune disease which destroys the insulin producing cells in the pancreas. Without insulin, the body cannot move glucose from the blood stream into cells, where it is needed to produce energy. The result is that glucose builds up in the bloodstream. This is fatal if untreated. NB: there are 2 main types of diabetes. Type 1, or juvenile diabetes, is of unknown origin and requires regular injections of insulin. Type 2 diabetes is lifestyle related and is caused by such factors as being overweight and unfit.
Hormone responsible for diabetes?
If the body does not have enough insulin, then one can get diabetes. If the cells can not use the insulin the body has very well, then one can get diabetes. If one has diabetes, then the doctor might say to use insulin. If the body has too much insulin, then the cells store energy in the cells as fat. When a person is overweight, that is one of the main symptoms of diabetes. If the body and cells use insulin well to control blood sugar level, then the person is not diabetic.
How Can Stem Cells Help with Diabetes?
Stem cells in Biology means a cell that can turn into about everything, stem cells can turn into muscle cells, skin cells, or some other normal cells. For Diabetes, the person's pancrease can not function any more which can not break down sugar which lets the whole body get too much sugar which is diabetes. So stem cells can turn into enzymes or cells to help the pancrease to return to the way of breaking down sugar, as this process goes on the persons body gets well and it is out of diabetes. I love getting into diabetes cause its the opposite of alot other diseases for example goat. But the main problem right now is medical history has not yet prove that it kills diabetes completely 100%. Good Luck!
What system is most affected by diabetes?
Diabetes is when the immune system attacks the insulin making beta cells in the pancreas. This keeps the cells from getting energy. If cells have less to no energy, it affects the whole body
What gland scretes diabetes mellitus?
Diabetes is caused by any defect onlow or no secretion of insulin orimproper use of insulinInsulin is secreted by the gland "Pancreas". So pancreas is responsible for diabetes, it the cause is low insulin secretion (type II diabetes) or no insulin secretion (type I diabetes).Body cells is not sensitive to insulin, then diabetes type II is caused called as insulin resistance.
What is diabetes 2?
This is the most common type of diabetes. It occures when the body can't make enough insulin or when the cells will just not respond to it. Many people have this type so it is not rare. It can be controlled by dieting. Type 2 Diabetes is another name for Adult-Onset Diabetes. This is the one where your pancreas is still making insulin, but your body cells cannot absorb and use it, so the blood sugar never gets into the cells. The most common people who get this are middle-aged and overweight. The other diabetes is the one where your pancreas no longer makes insulin.
