Eli5: How diabetes work and how insulin helps diabetics?

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Eli5: How diabetes work and how insulin helps diabetics?

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Carbohydrates are the sugars that get turned into energy. Insulin is what does that. The pancreas is what creates insulin. Diabetics have non/partial functioning pancreases. Instead of our body creating it and dispensing it automatically, we calculate and inject it ourselves. There is a lot more that can be detailed, but that’s the description I got when I was diagnosed at 6.