The process of developing diabetes

 

The process of developing diabetes

 

1. The food we eat passes through a 9-meter-long tube connecting the stomach, small intestine, large intestine, and anus, and then exits as feces.
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3. 2. All absorbed substances from the food passing through the tubes go to the liver, and the liver converts them into glucose.

 

1. 3. Glucose circulates in the blood and returns to muscle cells.
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3. 4. Glucose alone cannot enter the cell, so insulin helps it enter.
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5. 6. Insulin is released from the pancreas whenever food enters.
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7. 7. After the liver converts nutrients absorbed from food into glucose, insulin puts the glucose into the cells within two hours.
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9. 8. If food is consumed frequently, insulin becomes exhausted and starts to stop working.
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11. 9. Glucose cannot enter the cells and remains in the blood.
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13. 10. This phenomenon is called 'insulin resistance'.

 

11. When insulin resistance develops, glucose cannot enter cells, so a large amount of glucose remains in the blood even two hours after a meal.

 

1. 12. The glucose left in the blood like this ruins the condition of the blood vessels.
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3. 13. Blood vessels become hardened as if pickled in sugar, causing blood clots to form.
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5. 14. The liver converts glucose remaining in the blood into fat and stores it.
6. This is called fatty liver.
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   15. People usually imagine fatty liver as fat adhering to the area around the liver, but it is a form where fat fills the storage space of liver cells.

 

16. If fat fills the workspace where the liver needs to work, it cannot function properly and begins to malfunction.

 

1. About 1 in 100 people with fatty liver develops liver cancer.
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3. 18. There is so much glucose in the blood that glucose may remain even after filling the liver with fat.

 

1. 19. Remaining glucose is excreted in the urine
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3. 20. When glucose is excreted in the urine, diabetes is confirmed through a 'blood test' or 'urine test'.
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5. 21. When you have diabetes, the pancreas produces the necessary amount of insulin, but due to insulin resistance, it cannot properly deliver glucose to the cells.
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7. 22. If glucose cannot be delivered to cells with 20% efficiency due to insulin resistance, an insulin injection is used to inject five times the amount of insulin to achieve 100% efficiency.
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9. 23. When there is a lot of glucose in the blood, the blood becomes thick.
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11. 24. The heart pumps strongly to circulate thick blood
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13. 25. Meaning of developing high blood pressure
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15. 26. High blood pressure puts a burden on the kidneys, which filter the blood.
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17. 27. Thick blood continuously enters the kidneys due to high blood pressure, and the kidneys malfunction, reducing their ability to filter blood.
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1. 28. Once the kidneys lose function, they cannot regenerate.
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3. 29. The reason why most people who have suffered from high blood pressure and diabetes for a long time end up undergoing dialysis due to chronic kidney disease
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5. 30. It is named because diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia commonly occur together.
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7. 31. This is called 'metabolic syndrome'.
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9. 32. There is no cure for metabolic syndrome
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11. 33. Medicine given by the hospital is not a cure.
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13. 34. High blood pressure medication serves only to lower blood pressure, not to treat high blood pressure.
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15. 35. Diabetes medication is not a cure but merely provides insulin, and hyperlipidemia medication also only serves to lower cholesterol levels.
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17. 36. In other words, prescribing symptom relievers rather than cures.
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19. 37. Moderate exercise and dietary management (eating small portions) are the treatments for metabolic syndrome.