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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Diabetics get low blood sugar because they have to manually maintain their blood sugar by using insulin injections. And that is really hard to do.
So if they give themselves just a little too much insulin they get low blood sugar.
For a non-diabetic their body is working just fine and is able to maintain that balance really well on its own.
Our body, when it’s working properly is just down right amazing at maintaining homeostasis.
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