Diabetes: The Three Types Of Problems

Diabetes is currently divided in three broad categories by the medical community

. Insulin is the common factor: How it is used by the body, how it is made by the body. These 3 types are broadly described thusly:

Type 1: No insulin production whatsoever. Pancreas issues are a common link associated with insulin effectiveness. This can be because of over work due to long-term resistance to insulin requiring long-term overproduction or pancreas destruction by disease (certain sorts of flu have been know to cause this for instance). Thus, depending upon natural insulin production or quality, one may be required to inject insulin, the amount determined by blood sugar readings, either automatic (by using artificial pumps) or manual meter readings.

Type 2: Insulin is produced by the body, however it is used erratically and blood sugar levels must be monitored. When you have high blood sugar problems after meals and you react differently to food than normal people (while still not adding insulin), you are considered Type 2 diabetic. Insulin resistance - where you don't use insulin as well but your pancreas is successfully 'red lining'- is caused by obesity (fat cells require more insulin), long term dehydration, and systematic nutritional lack. If you are obese, the odds of being told you have type 2 diabetes go up. Chronic lack of correct nutrition causes the body to use insulin as a nutrition scavenging source as well as a transport mechanism for blood sugar into the individual cells, requiring more insulin to be present within the system.

It is proven that daily exercise increases sensitivity to insulin. This generally results in the body needing to produce less insulin.

Too much insulin in bodily fluids slows circulation both in and between cells. Thick fluids don't move well. This causes poor circulation, with the results first showing in many in the extremities as nerves are damaged from poor circulation. Further things that happen can be heart attacks, strokes, or clogged arteries are found. The circulatory system is stressed. Doctors are expected to treat a type two diabetic as having had a heart attack because of this added stress.

Relatively new is the type 3 diabetes division. One way of describing it is as combination of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. The patient has type 2 diabetes, many with insulin resistance, but the decision has been made to supplement insulin production with additonal. This requires a person to inject insulin in a similar manner to a person with a Type 1 diagnosis. Why do doctors recommend injecting insulin to type 2 diabetics? Because control of diet, exercise, or oral medication didn't produce blood sugar control. Sad to say, but in some, it is because people don't do what's right for them.

Obviously, the treatment of diabetes must be monitored very carefully (including the use of additional insulin) by both the sufferer and their medical professional. A sure way to avoid a lot of suffering and have a significantly longer life is to control your eating binges rather than adding more insulin as needed. At the rate diabetes is penetrating the population, we can expect 1/2 of the population to be diabetic.

Are you going to be in the diabetes pool or are you going to be out of it? With some work, you can be sure to not have the host of problems that can come from diabetes.

by: Russel Donohue

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