Normal Glucose Metabolism
After digestion, food is broken down to glucose in the gut. Glucose is then absorbed into the bloodstream. It is carried in the blood to every cell of your body. Cells need glucose for their energy needs. To get inside the cell, glucose needs insulin’s help.
What can go wrong?
If one has insulin resistance as in Type 2 Diabetes or an absolute lack of insulin as in Type 1 Diabetes, the glucose has difficulty entering the cell. Thus cells are starved of energy (glucose). As the glucose is unable to get into the cells, the blood glucose levels will increase.
How to fix it?
To correct this problem in Type 2 Diabetes, we need to reduce insulin resistance. Insulin resistance can be reduced through exercise, weight loss, and certain diabetic medications. There is also a relative lack of insulin in type 2 diabetics; hence we need to increase insulin production from the pancreas or give insulin. In Type 1 diabetics, there is an absolute lack of insulin; hence these people need insulin for survival.
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