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Tag : glucose
Insulin makes you fat!
Most people have heard that obesity can be one of the chief causes of diabetes. But it’s equally true that diabetes can actually make you fat. So does the weight problem cause the disease, or is it the other way around? This is not really a purely academic “chicken or egg” question. To understand what’s going on we need to take a brief look at the physiology involved in becoming diabetic. When we do we discover a metabolic conundrum: body fat can increase the amount of insulin you require, while at the same time those higher levels of insulin can make you fatter.
Can Diabetes truly be cured or is it just "remission"?
When a diabetic no longer needs medication and has normal blood sugars – do we call it remission or do we call it a cure?
Assume for a moment that you're a diabetic. Your fasting blood sugar is 214. Your hemoglobin A1c – the component of hemoglobin to which glucose is bound – is an unhealthy 7.9. You are taking nine pills per day in an effort to control your blood sugar, but it does not seem to be working. This means you are a poorly controlled type 2 diabetic, and your risk of experiencing the deadly effects of unchecked diabetes – heart attacks, strokes, dementia, blindness, kidney failure, loss of sensation in your extremities and amputations – is significantly elevated.
Now, let's consider a different scenario.