What is Diabetes?
Diabetes refers to several disorders that affect your blood sugar levels.
Prediabetes, sometimes called glucose intolerance, is when your blood sugar levels are higher than normal but not high enough to qualify as diabetes.
Type 1 Diabetes develops during childhood and is an autoimmune disorder. The immune system attacks and destroys the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas over a period of time. Since the body becomes unable to make its own insulin, insulin shots are necessary.
Type 2 Diabetes covers a range of diseases. In some cases, the pancreas makes too much insulin and the cells in the body don’t respond to it. This is referred to as insulin resistance. In other cases, the cells respond normally to insulin, but the pancreas doesn’t make enough of it because the pancreas doesn’t respond normally to blood sugar levels.