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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A person with type one diabetes does not produce (or produces very little) insulin. Insulin is a hormone that helps regulate blood glucose levels in the body. If I miscalculate how much insulin I need to take, my blood sugar will go low.
A person without diabetes has a body that produces insulin which means your body is generally pretty good at keeping your blood sugar from going low.
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