Diabetic Supplies - What You Should Know...
Diabetes is the body's inability to produce the hormone insulin, OR the body's inability to react to the insulin produced. When you have diabetes, the food you eat cannot be used for energy because your body is not making enough insulin, OR the insulin you have is not working the way is should. Insulin is made in the pancreas, an organ that lies behind the stomach.
Normally, most food is broken down into a form of sugar called glucose. Sugar is the body's main source of energy. As sugar enters the bloodstream, the amount of sugar in the blood rises. Normally the body reacts to the rise in blood sugar by signaling the pancreas to send insulin into the bloodstream.
Insulin helps sugar leave the bloodstream and enter the cells. To understand how insulin works, think of a cell as a house with many locked doors. Insulin is the key that unlocks the doors and lets sugar leave the bloodstream and enter the cells.
Your pancreas makes little or no insulin OR the insulin you have is not working the way it should. Either way, sugar cannot get into your body's cells. Instead of entering the cells, it stays trapped in the bloodstream, raising the amount of sugar in your blood to abnormally high levels.
Your kidneys get rid of some of the extra sugar by filtering it from your blood and removing it from your body through your urine. But your blood sugar is still too high.
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