Diabetes And Your Body
This is the very first post on this blog and I am going to start with a health related issue to get started. As you may have noticed I am not telling that much about me on the about page and that is mainly because I don’t want people to judge me based on an about page. They are going to just read there who I am and then get interested or lose interest in my posts before even reading them. I want people to take a look at what I am writing and then decide themselves wheter the stuff I am writing is worth reading and commenting on.
Starting with a health issue is quite a natural way to go with me since I have been studying to be a doctor for a while ( not yet time to tell you how long 
) and type 2 diabetes has become a great deal in the US and also it is becoming bigger and bigger in the rest of the world. There are almost 50% of the citizens of USA who are obese and if they don’t already have type 2 diabetes then they are sure going to have it soon. I am not going to be preaching to you about the dangers of overweight since everyone knows that stuff already. It is like showing cancer photos to smokers – it just does not work. The thing that I am going to do today is to tell you a little bit about type 2 diabetes and what it does to your body.
Our bodies have been designed to constantly monitor themselves and make adjustments accordingly; when you need to get more energy you are going to feel hungry, and if you starve, you are going to feel forced to eat anything you can get. When you are tired you will feel tired and find an urge to go to bed and get some sleep. When you are exhausted and haven’t slept for days you will fall asleep the moment you stop moving. When your blood sugar levels are low, your liver glycogen starts to release in to the bloodstream by a hormone which is produced by the pancreas. Glucagon is that hormone and it is one of the two important hormones behind regulating blood sugar levels. The other one is insulin, and unlike glucagon it will drop your blood sugars fast. The major function of it is to keep the sugar at a level which is beyond the damaging levels – or so do people think and I am going to get back to this in a moment. Constant high blood sugar can cause neuropathy and severe damage.
Unlike people think the major function of insulin is not to keep blood sugar low but instead act as doorman between the energy that is absorbed and your storage facilities – adipose tissue. We have not always had food readily available and that is why our body is not working the way it is supposed when we are constantly eating. Insulin is supposed to only be used when you get huge amounts of food and then it is supposed to get as much stored for bad times as possible. People are using their insulin in a wrong manner, they are using it to prevent blood sugar from raising and that will eventually cause the tissues to become resistant. This means that the doormen feel that the bar is full, and they are not going to let any more in. This will leave people with high blood glucose all the time and when this happens your body starts to take the damage.
With constant high glucose the first symptoms are thirst, constant urination and tiredness. This happens because of a few reasons. When you have too much glucose in your blood it will start to overflow through your kidneys in your urine and it will pull a lot of water with it, hence the amount of urine will increase. Because the amount of urine is going to increase you are going to dry up. Since there are receptors that are measuring the amount of water in your body, you will get thirsty. Eventually the glucose will cause nerves to start breaking and the control systems that are necessary for us to keep living to fall.