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Cells are alive and functioning when they have a sugar (glucose) supply. To maintain healthy cells the right balance of insulin and sugar must be provided. When cells are hungry, they send a message to the brain to eat something. Food is eaten and changed in the stomach to sugar. It enters the blood vessels with insulin from the pancreas and flows to the cells. The insulin operates the door (receptor site) of the cell and blood sugar energizes the cells.
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| Type 1 Diabetes The pancreas stops making insulin. The cells send a message to the brain that they are hungry. You eat. Sugar is delivered to the cells but it can‘t get in. They remain hungry. You are hungry, losing weight, thirsty, tired and going to the bathroom a lot. No matter what you eat, you are starving in the midst of plenty. You have to have insulin injections. |
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Type 2 Diabetes The pancreas can produce insulin which either may or may not be enough or at times just doesn’t work the cell door. Cells may resist the insulin. Sugar imbalance in the blood waiting to enter the cells requires you to monitor your blood sugar and control it with meal planning, exercise and or medication. |
