How does diabetes appear in your body if you are healthy?
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Being “healthy” reduces the chances of you getting a disease, it doesn’t eliminate it.
Diabetes has 2 forms, Type 1 and Type 2. Type 1 is an autoimmune disease, where your body wrongly identifies your insulin-producing cells as foreign and attacks them. The exact trigger is unknown, and it can happen to anybody.
The treatment for Type 1 is insulin injections. Overdose/underdose of insulin can be lethal, so strict insulin control is necessary.
Type 2 is due to a resistance to insulin. If your cells are constantly exposed to high levels of insulin (such as with sugary diet), they get “desensitized” and need more and more insulin before they reach the same level.
The treatment for Type 2 diabetes is diet/exercise, or medicines to improve insulin responsiveness.
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