Insulin

Diabetes is a disease that has a mass amount of sugar in your blood or high blood glucose. Diabetes mellitus is caused by a lack of responsiveness to insulin and have a high blood glucose level. There are two types of Diabetes mellitus. Type one diabetes, destroy the pancreatic cells. Type two diabetes affects the body flow and increase the process of blood sugar. When the beta cells from the pancreas fail to provide, diabetes occurs. The energy comes from the glucose. Eating healthy and right…

levels. The main goal of treating diabetes is to lower blood sugar levels. In a normal person sugar metabolism is controlled by insulin. Insulin is a hormone that is needed to turn sugar, starches, and other food into energy. Insulin is secreted by the pancreas. When not enough insulin is secreted, blood sugar levels in the body increase. Decreased secretion of insulin can also cause protein and fat metabolism abnormalities in the human body. Diabetes is classified as a metabolism…

Diabetes mellitus is classified into two types: type 1 diabetes mellitus, in which there is a total destruction of beta cells, which leads to absolute insulin deficiency; and diabetes mellitus type 2 or non-insulin, a consequence…

References……………………………………………………………………………19 List of Illustrations Figure 1: Pie chart showing the rate of different types of diabetes……………………….3 Figure 2: Immune mediated type 1 diabetes………………………………………………5 Figure 3: Symptoms of type 1 diabetes……………………………………………………6 Figure 4: How insulin pumps works………………………………………………………7…

in most people diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, the body's own immune system destroys the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. These cells are also known as islet cells. Also, genetics and contact with specific environmental factors like viruses might cause the disease. Cause of Type 2 Diabetes: Type 2 diabetes develops when the body becomes resistant to insulin or when the pancreas stops producing insulin. Why this happens is unknown. Although, environmental and genetic factors like excess…

it and take any opportunity I can to talk about it with someone else. Diabetes prevents the body from using or housing sugars that you intake through food by preventing insulin from being produced. Insulin is a hormone in the pancreas that helps the body use sugar for energy to run it. If the body cannot properly produce insulin, then sugar can build up in arteries which have lasting and damaging effects on the body such as, blindness, problems with the kidney and the circulatory system and…

attacks part of its own pancreas. Scientists are not sure why. But the immune system mistakenly sees the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas as foreign, and destroys them. This attack is known as "autoimmune" disease. These cells are called islets these cells are the ones that sense glucose in the blood and, in response, produce the necessary amount of insulin to normalize blood sugars. Insulin serves as a key to open your cells, to allow the glucose to enter, and allow you to use the…

disease in which the pancreas stops producing insulin. Insulin is a hormone that enables the body to gain energy from food. Over 40,000 people in the United States alone are diagnosed each year. Managing type one diabetes is like a 24/7 365 days a year job; no breaks, no holidays, no exceptions. Type one diabetics have to monitor their blood glucose levels, calculate the total carbs for everything they eat and inject the appropriate amount of insulin. A person with type one diabetes will give…

completely. However, not many have been as invigorating as Dr. Frederick Banting and his gifted assistant Charles Best. His skills and knowledge of diabetes caught the attention of the world. It was through Dr. Banting we have insulin shots, and the priceless knowledge of diabetes and insulin. Dr. Frederick Banting is arguable one of the most influential figures in the history of medicine. Frederick Grant Banting was born on November 14th, 1891 in Alliston, Ontario. He was the youngest of…

hyperglycemia resulting from a lack of insulin, which requires lifestyle and behavioral changes. There are three types of diabetes, Type 1 and Type 2 that are separate and distinct pathophysiological entities, and Gestational Diabetes. According to Kowalski (2012 p.1294) “Type 1 Diabetes results from destruction of the pancreatic beta cells because the beta cells of the pancreas have been damaged or destroyed by an autoimmune response.” It attacks against the insulin-producing beta cells that…