Why isn’t it possible to suddenly get diabetes after a single large sugar binge?
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Diabetes, was historically an auto immune disorder. Where the immune cells would attack the beta cells in the pancreas. This requires patients with diabetes to be on insulin for the rest of their lives. Sugar was not the culprit.
And then something shifted. It went from being called diabetes to insulin dependent diabetes. Now it is called Type 1 Diabetes. There was a time they called it childhood diabetes but over 40% of people with type 1 actually develop it over the age of 20.
Type 2 diabetes should never be called diabetes, the diseases progress nothing like each other, At least that’s my opinion. My wife is a type 1 and was diagnosed at age 30, we constantly hear people saying you don’t look like someone with diabetes, i.e obese. If she fails to take insulin daily, she will die within 24 hours. This is not the same for someone with type 2, or insulin resistant diabetes.
Type 2, It is not an autoimmune disorder, It is a lifestyle disorder. Though there is evidence that some things can influence the likelihood of developing it later in life besides lifestyle.
The simple explanation is that it takes __time__ for your body to become insulin desensitized. It takes years old high blood sugar and triglyceride levels for the cells to stop responding to the hormones. Treatments invoice drugs that enhance insulin delivery to cells, like metformin and lifestyle changes. Some skinny people develop type 2, but they tend to have chronically high blood sugar even though they are not obese.
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