healthdoc asked:

90% of type-2 diabetes cases develop after significant fat is gained in the omentum located in the abdomen. This creates insulin resistance effectively ‘gumming-up’ pores in body cells preventing sugar from being absorbed from the blood. As blood sugars rise the pancreas works harder by making more insulin. Years of stress and overwork causes the pancreas to fail prematurely leading to insulin fatigue and diabetes. Learn more about controling diabetes at: www.HealthDoc.org

vclutter asked:


I am a diabetic and now am taking insulin. What happens if I really didn’t need it? Am I now dependent on it? Has my pancreas quit working all together? What would happen if I stopped the insulin?

Insulin is a self-correcting hormone which ebbs and flows as the body needs it. Insulin is part of an exquisitely-controlled system that signals the cells when to use energy, the liver when to produce it, the hunger centers when we need to refill, and the nerves to insure that we stay calm and collected.

The insulin that diabetics have to take is a replacement for this smoothly-operating natural system. Although insulin-dependent diabetics must take insulin or they will die from their disease, the spikes in their insulin injections don’t correspond well to how their insulin system would work in a normal body. As a result, even diabetics who measure their blood glucose often during the day and assiduously take their insulin shots are at much higher danger of organ failure, circulatory disease and other diseases that are common to diabetics.

In order to understand why diabetes can be so problematic, it’s best to understand how the insulin cycle works in a healthy body.

The pancreas produces insulin, and it detects the amount of glucose and insulin circulating in the body. The two parts of the pancreas – glucose-sensors and insulin producers – work hand-in-hand to insure that the levels of insulin and glucose are in balance at all times.

What does the pancreas really measure when it measures circulating glucose? It’s primarily monitoring the amount of sugar uptake by the cells. When we are working hard on a math problem, for example, the brain’s cells require a good deal more energy in the form of glucose than when our brains are relaxed. The brain is the most sensitive of our organs to glucose levels – that’s why we can achieve a ’sugar high’ after we eat a piece of candy, and a ’sugar low’ when our blood sugar level falls. The symptoms of too much sugar are excitability (particularly amongst children), while the symptoms of too-low glucose in the blood are lowered temperature, thirst, shivering and bad temper.

Other organs also depend on the right glucose level in order to assure that they function properly. When you run, for example, your leg and other muscles use a good deal of the glucose circulating freely in the blood. If this glucose weren’t replenished quickly, you could end up hypoglycemic, which means with low blood sugar. The muscles would soon lose their ability to work at their top level, and you would slow down.

Fortunately, the pancreas detects this lowering of the blood sugar levels and responds immediately with insulin secretions. These secretions tell the muscles “request more glucose,” and tell the liver “produce more glucose.” The elegant system therefore relies on this feedback loop in order to assure that cells have exactly the right amount of sugar available to fuel their activity.

The insulin-dependent diabetic cannot rely on this fine-tuning method. He or she is forced to ’spike’ their insulin by injecting it two to five times a day. Although they try to time their insulin injections around mealtimes, they are not able to duplicate the fine controls of insulin secretion in response to cellular needs.



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RedHead85 asked:


Case Study #1: Diabetes

Hannah is a 10-year-old girl who has recently been diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus. She is a 4th grade student at Hendricks Elementary School. Prior to her diagnosis, Hannah was very involved in sports and played on the girls volleyball team. Her mother is concerned about how the diagnosis will affect Hannah.

1. Discuss the patient’s diagnosis. Include a definition of the actual disease or condition.

Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus once known as “juvenile onset” diabetes or “insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus,” is a chronic disorder of carbohydrate, fat, and protein metabolism caused by inadequate production of insulin by the pancreas or faulty use of insulin by the cells. Insulin is a hormone needed to convert sugar (glucose) into energy. Although type 1 diabetes can develop at any age, it typically appears during childhood or adolescence.

2. Identify the factors which could have caused or lead to the particular disease or condition.

3. Describe the signs and symptoms which are associated with the disease or condition.

4. Discuss the diagnostic testing that is usually performed in order to formally diagnose the particular disease or condition.

5. Identify the appropriate treatment (including therapies, medications, etc) which the patient may be prescribed for his/her particular diagnosis.

6. Discuss potential barriers to therapy which the patient may experience due to their unique situation.

7. Discuss alternative treatments which may also benefit the patient.

8. Describe the typical prognosis for a patient with the disease or condition.

9. Identify patient teaching which would benefit the patient in your case study.

I have to do a paper for school and looking for a good website to answer these question.

When the pancreas produces too little or no insulin that is called type l diabetes. Someone coupled with diabetes type 1 will have to inject insulin during the day to retain safe blood sugar levels. Type II diabetes, also known as adult onset diabetes, is characterized by the pancreas not creating adequate amounts of insulin to control glucose levels. Or the cells are not responding to insulin.

When a cell does not respond to insulin, it is known as insulin resistance. If you are diagnosed with type II diabetes, exercise and weight control are given as measures to help with your insulin resistance.

Treating diabetes with exercise is part of the program. Lack of movement has been a strong indicator that diabetes could be at hand. Type l cannot be controlled with exercise. Ninety percent of those that have diabetes have type 2 which can be treated by working out and exercising.

The risk factors for type II diabetes connect: inactivity, important cholesterol, obesity, and hypertension. Inactivity alone is a strong risk factor that has been proven to lead to diabetes type II. Exercise will have a positive affect on diabetes type II while improving insulin sensitivity while type I cannot be controlled using an exercise program.

Part of my weekly program for treating diabetes is exercising. I look forward to going to my health club at least three to four times a week.

Riding the idle bike and playing basketball keeps my cardio count up. This is valuable for treating diabetes because it helps with my blood flow.

Working out causes the body to use glucose quicker. The more vigorous the exercise, the quicker the body will make use of glucose. Therefore it is essential to recognize the distinctions in training with type I and type II diabetes. It is important for a man or woman who has diabetes to get together with their physician as you are beginning an athletics program.

When training with a diabetic, you need to know the dangers of injecting insulin immediately prior to athletics. An individual that has type I diabetes injecting their normal quantity of insulin for a sedentary situation can pose the risk of hypoglycemia or insulin shock during exercise. Consult with your primary care person to find out what makes the most sense for you. You probably need to adjust your insulin level injections when you exercise.

General exercise guidelines for type I are as follows: allow adequate rest during exercise sessions to prevent high blood pressure, use low impact exercises and avoid backbreaking weight lifting, and always have a supply of carbohydrates nearby. If blood sugar levels get too low, the individual may feel shaky, disoriented, famished, anxious, become irritable or experience trembling. Consuming a carbohydrate snack or beverage will alleviate these symptoms in a matter of minutes.

Type 2 diabetes will be helped by exercise, because of its effect on insulin sensitivity. Proper athletics and diet are the best forms of avoidance for type II diabetics. Creating and maintaining a work out program that you can devote yourself to on a active basis will aid you when you are treating diabetes. Maybe even prevent it. Instead of gong for the highest levels of workout gradually increase the potency level of your program to prevent hypoglycemia.

There you have it. Obviously exercising is meaningful to you or you would not have come this far. Having a well rounded plan for treating diabetes makes perfect sense. Like what you eat, what exercises to do and what you can do naturally.

Take a look in the resource box for additional information about creating a thorough and well rounded diabetes treatment.



By: Aron Wallad

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Da Pink Panther 2 asked:


She is not overweight and she is not older (mid 30s). She has two kids (18 and 12, I think). She has absolutely no family history of diabetes on either side of her family. A couple of weeks ago, she went to the ER and found out her blood sugar was in the 800s, so it turns out she had Type II insulin-dependent diabetes and didn’t know it. She had none of the risk factors, so how could this have happened?

(This has put the scare into me because I have no family history of diabetes on either side, either, but I have an affinity for candy as does my dad — neither of us are overweight — and we’ve prided ourselves on having a “pancreas of steel”. This situation with my co-worker has made me completely rethink everything, and I’m considering cutting out candy almost entirely and going to eating like a “liberal” diabetic, i.e., watching sugar grams, eating Rice Crispy bars or graham crackers for my sweet craving instead of candy.