According to the Centers for Disease Control, more than 100 million Americans have diabetes or prediabetes. That’s an epidemic. While you can take steps to avoid the disease, you must take steps to monitor it once you have it. Talk to an experienced doctor and nutritionist at Century Medical and Dental Center, a multi-disciplinary practice that brings together many specialists to better serve your needs. Call today for an appointment.
Your body uses blood glucose, which is a type of sugar, as energy. Blood glucose comes from the food you eat. A group of diseases called diabetes mellitus affects how your body uses glucose. As the energy source for your body’s cells, glucose helps your tissues, muscles and brain function correctly. If that system goes out of balance, it leads to serious health repercussions.
Two main types of diabetes exist, but with both, your body doesn’t process glucose correctly. Although some forms of diabetes — such as prediabetes or gestational diabetes — are usually reversible once diagnosed, you need to continue disease management for life. Visit an accomplished internist at Century Medical and Dental Center in Brooklyn for your diabetes treatment.
Your level of symptoms often indicates the amount of excess sugar in your bloodstream. Some of the more common signs of diabetes include:
The two chronic types of diabetes are type 1 and type 2. Type 1 diabetes may develop at any age, but childhood and adolescence are the most common times for it to appear. Type 2 diabetes is more common. It may develop at any point as well, but individuals older than 40 seem most susceptible.
To understand the disease, you have to understand the role of glucose and insulin as sources of energy for your body. Insulin secretes from the pancreas located below your stomach. This hormone acts as the doorman for your cells, allowing sugar to enter. Sugar enters the cells and acts as energy, and the overall level of glucose in the blood lowers or remains steady. As your body uses up the blood sugar, your pancreas secretes less insulin.
The exact cause of type 1 diabetes isn’t known, but your immune system’s signals go awry and begin attacking insulin cells instead of the normal harmful viruses and bacteria. Sugar can’t enter the cells without insulin, and it begins building up in the blood. Genetics and environment may play a part in the development of type 1 diabetes.
With type 2 diabetes or prediabetes, your cells start resisting the insulin. The pancreas isn’t able to make enough insulin to overcome this resistance, so the sugar builds in your bloodstream. Environment and genetics also play a part in type 2 diabetes development, but being overweight is strongly linked as well.
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