I don’t produce enough lactase and so I need to supplement with a pill when I eat dairy. However, that’s where it stops. Yet, with diabetes patients, there are so many complications. Also, sorry for the misleading nature of my previous post.
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These 2 conditions are not even remotely comparable. Lactose is a specific type of sugar that you are not able to process. So it runs through you, and upsets your digestion. Glucose is the base sugar and energy source of your body, so when people can’t process it, it means the cells in their body won’t have an energy source.
Many of the complications of diabetes are based on how high sugar in the blood effects the vascular system. It basically causes fatty deposits to build up in the veins, slowly clogging and stiffening them. When blood can’t be easily delivered to parts of the body, sch as the feet, the nerves and cells start to die. They loose sensation, and injuries can’t heal properly. That is why many diabetics have amputated feet and such, after living with diabetes for a long time.
When the body can’t make insulin to process the sugar, it makes the liver work overtime to break down fat, for energy. That is why diabetes was a death sentence before we learned how to make insulin. People would just starve to death, no matter how much they ate. That process would also cause something called Diabetic ketoacidosis, so your blood would get more and more acidic which causes many problems of it’s own.
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