how does diabetes affect blood glucose?
i know it deals with your blood sugar
Diabetes affects the ability to regulate your blood glucose. Sugar is glucose + fructose, but glucose is often simply called "sugar" for those who don’t know the difference.
Too much blood glucose is bad as is too little. We measure our blood glucose to make sure it is within acceptable levels. If not, we take steps to get it back where it belongs. Otherwise, we can experience all kinds of problems including possible death.
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Hyperglycemia means your glucose levels are high because your pancreas does not produce enough insulin.
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Diabetes affects the ability to regulate your blood glucose. Sugar is glucose + fructose, but glucose is often simply called "sugar" for those who don’t know the difference.
Too much blood glucose is bad as is too little. We measure our blood glucose to make sure it is within acceptable levels. If not, we take steps to get it back where it belongs. Otherwise, we can experience all kinds of problems including possible death.
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well … it goes like this: your pancres (some bits of ti anyway) produces a hormone called INSULINch if thin you’ve heard of before … insulin regulates your blood sugar levels by making glucose (the most basic and importan sugar) go inside your cells (especially) liver and muscle cells where it is either used … to make enrgy that your body needs or the stored (if in excess) in the form of GLYCOGEN from where your body can use it whenever it feels like it …
if you don’t have enough insulin or if your cells no longer respond to it glucose remains in your blood where it’s levels rise after you eat or when you are stressed leading to series of methabolic dissorders known as diabetes …
hope this is what you needed. if you want to know more … just let me know. the whole process is wqy more intricate …. (enzymes, processes, other hormone influence) …
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Insulin is the chemical in your body which breaks down sugars and starches so your body can use it for energy. Diabetes is a disease which causes your body to process insulin incorrectly. In Type I (aka Juvenile Diabetes), your pancreas stops producing insulin, so you need to take insulin shots for life to replace it. In Type II Diabetes (aka Adult Onset Diabetes), your body does still produce insulin, but it no longer processes the insulin your pancreas creates. Since the sugars and starches (which turn into sugars in your bloodstream) aren’t processed if you do not have enough insulin, they remain in the bloodstream. That’s why a person with uncontrolled diabetes can have such high levels of blood glucose–120 is about normal, and I had a friend who we tested one time and his blood sugar was 400! Dogs have about the same scale as humans. When we found out my dog has diabetes, hers was well over 600! Now that she’s on a proper dose of insulin, though, hers is within normal range.
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Insulin is a hormone made by your pancreas that allows sugar (glucose) in your bloodstream to be absorbed by the cells of your body. Without it, sugar remains in the bloodstream and is eventually excreted causing excess urination and thirst.
People with Diabetes either:
a) don’t make insulin in the islet cells of their pancreas because their immune system has accidentally attacked them. These people have type 1 diabetes and have to inject insulin
b) have become resistant to their own insulin or don’t make enough. Their liver might even make more glucose. These people have type 2 diabetes which sometimes can be controlled with diet & exercise OR with tablets that increase sensitivity to insulin and decrease the amount of glucose made by the liver OR by injecting insulin
Untreated, blood sugar levels get very high (hypERglycaemia) while the cells in your body effectively starve and your body starts breaking muscle and fat down to make glucose, releasing ketones as a bi-product
Treating diabetes can also cause low blood sugar (hypOglycaemia) but if my answer gets any longer we’ll all be exhausted. I hope somewhwere in this lot I’ve actually answered your question??? (c;
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