ELI5. If you eat a butt-load of sugar at once (think 10 cadbury creme eggs worth), is a single instance enough to trigger type 2 diabetes? If it’s not, why can the body handle that much sugar sometimes, but eventually it causes type 2 diabetes?

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ELI5. If you eat a butt-load of sugar at once (think 10 cadbury creme eggs worth), is a single instance enough to trigger type 2 diabetes? If it’s not, why can the body handle that much sugar sometimes, but eventually it causes type 2 diabetes?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Diabetes is insulin resistence. It has to occur over time, not all once.

Fun fact, if you live long enough, then you will be resistent to insulins regardless of diet or sugar consumption. Diabetics just cause it to occur much sooner in life.