The process of developing diabetes

 

1. 1. The food we eat passes through a 9-meter-long tube connecting the stomach, small intestine, large intestine, and anus before being expelled as stool.
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3. 2. During the passage of food through the tube, all absorbed substances are sent to the liver, which converts them into glucose.

 

1. 3. Glucose circulates through the blood and returns to muscle cells.
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3. 4. Since glucose alone cannot enter the cells, insulin helps facilitate its entry.
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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 transports the glucose into cells within two hours.
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9. 8. When food frequently enters, insulin becomes exhausted and stops working.
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11. 9. Glucose cannot enter the cells and remains in the bloodstream.
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13. 10. This phenomenon is called 'insulin resistance'.

 

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

 

1. 12. The glucose left in the blood damages the condition of the blood vessels.
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3. 13. The blood vessels become hardened as if soaked in sugar, leading to a stiff entrance and the formation of blood clots.
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5. 14. The liver converts remaining glucose in the blood into fat for storage.
6. This is called fatty liver.
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   15, Usually, people imagine fat attached around the liver, but it is in the form where fat fills the storage space of liver cells.

 

16. When the temporary worker needs to work, if the local area fills the workspace, they cannot work properly and the temporary worker begins to malfunction.

 

1. Approximately 1 in 17,100 people develop liver cancer from fatty liver disease.
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3. 18. Since there is a large amount of glucose in the blood, even after filling the liver with fat, glucose may still remain.

 

1. 19. Remaining glucose is excreted in the urine
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3. When glucose appears in the urine, diabetes can be confirmed through blood tests or urine tests.
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5. When a person develops diabetes, the pancreas produces insulin as needed, but insulin resistance occurs, preventing proper glucose uptake into the cells.
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7. If insulin resistance prevents glucose from entering cells at 20% efficiency, then injecting five times the amount of insulin to achieve 100% is what insulin injections do.
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9. 23. When the glucose level in the blood increases, the blood becomes thick.
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11. 24. The heart pumps vigorously to circulate thick blood.
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13. 25. The meaning of having high blood pressure
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15. When you have high blood pressure, it puts a strain on the kidneys that filter the blood.
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17. 27. Thick blood continuously flows into the kidneys due to high blood pressure, causing the kidneys to malfunction and reducing their ability to filter blood.
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1. 28. Once the kidney's taste is lost, it cannot be regenerated.
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3. 29. The reason most people who have long-term hypertension and diabetes end up on dialysis due to chronic kidney disease
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5. Diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia often occur together, hence the name.
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7. This is called 'Metabolic Syndrome'.
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9. There is no medication available for the treatment of metabolic syndrome.
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11. The medication provided by the hospital is not a cure.
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13. 34. Hypertension medication does not aim to treat high blood pressure but only to lower blood pressure.
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15. 35. Providing insulin, which is not a treatment drug but a medication for diabetes, and cholesterol-lowering drugs that only reduce cholesterol levels.
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17. 36. In other words, prescribing symptom relievers instead of cures.
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19. Metabolic syndrome can be treated with moderate exercise and dietary (small meal) management.