My understanding is that diabetics have a pancreas that does not produce insulin or the body has stopped reacting to insulin, which mean they can get really high blood sugar because nothing metabolizes is.
But why does that cause diabetic people to also get low blood sugar more often than non-diabetics? If I eat a cake, my body produces a bunch of insulin to metabolize, then I go work out for an hour, my blood sugar won’t be as low as a diabetic who did the same.
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I’m type 1 diabetic. If I give myself too much insulin, my blood sugar goes down. But that works both ways. If I turn my pump off, so I’m not giving myself insulin, my blood sugar actually goes up over the next few hours. Even when I don’t eat anything in that time.
I assume a healthy body regulates itself in the same way. It senses how much insulin is needed, and gives itself small doses to correct if it’s detecting higher sugar levels in the blood. And if sugar levels are low, or backs off and slows insulin production.
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