What is diabetes and how dangerous is it.?
it is a disease in which your body does not have enough insulin. there are 2 kinds - juvenile which starts young and type II which is usually a lifestyle disease found in older people. it is pretty dangerous because untreated high blood sugar levels (which is what happens when there is not enough insulin to process the sugar one eats) end up causing things like heart disease, neuropathy, infections, etc.
What happens to you if you don’t have diabetes but take a diabetes medication to lower your blood sugar?
I’m not a specialist in this field, but I am fully qualified in biology.If you don’t have elevated blood sugar (ie you have normal blood sugar levels) and you take medication to lower it, then you have low blood sugar. That is not a good thing.You will feel dazed and woozy and might pass out spontaneously. Keep this up and you might die.There is a current scare on sugar and also on salt. Both of these are essential to your health. Too much of either is bad - but too little of either is worse. A little too much, no problem, your body will excrete the excess. Way too much and it starts to cause damage.Too little, especially with salt, well… your body cannot create sodium. It’s an element. You’ll go into hyponatremia and die much faster than someone taking too much salt. Your body can make sugar out of other materials but if your breath smells like acetone (nail polish remover), your body is ripping apart proteins to make sugars and you are in ketoacidosisBasically, if you don’t have diabetes, don’t take medication for it. Taking any medication designed to correct a problem you don’t have is going to make you ill.
Can type 1 Diabetes be treated with insulin pills?
If you know the difference between the two types of diabetes then you obviously know that the only thing that they have in common is the title 'diabetes'. You would know that as a type one diabetic you no longer produce insulin and thus have to take it via injection, and that a type two diabetic can still produce insulin but cannot process it correctly thus needing oral medication to help manage it. So then you would already have the answer to your question, that the oral medication that type two diabetics take would be absolutely useless to you, a type one insulin dependent diabetic. If you can't be a truck driver and be on insulin then guess what? You either don't get to be a truck driver or you get to be a dead truck driver. Pick one. What you've been doing is dangerous - you cannot use type two tricks to treat your type one diabetes. If you continue to do so and insist on going on the road in a large truck then you are putting yourself and OTHERS at risk.
What happens if a diabetic eats a lot of sugar?
Nothing happens in the short term. Having raised blood sugar from eating lots of sugar is no different in diabetics or healthy individuals.What does the damage for diabetics is the permanently raised blood sugar- they can’t get the sugar out of their blood, so it stays there.Insulin’s job is to get sugar out of the blood, and all type 2 diabetes is, is insulin resistance. Your cells no longer respond to insulin, so the sugar never leaves the blood like it does in everyone else.When the sugar stays in your blood it rots everything. Your body cells are bathed in sugar non-stop. You tend to get nerve damage in the feet as well as other cellular damage, which is why diabetics often have to have their feet chopped off since their feet literally rot off them. The tiny cells in your eyes are also very sensitive to damage, so your eyesight fails and you may develop cataracts. The liver is never flushed, so cirrhosis and liver scarring is common.As for your question details, if you try to take insulin to counter the high sugar, but keep eating lots of glycaemic foods, you will not be able to take enough. This is because your cells are insulin resistant- they don’t respond to insulin very well. If you just keep pumping more and more insulin into the blood you will get more of a response, but then you will become increasingly insulin resistant.I know this isn’t part of the question per se, but the best things to do diet-wise to avoid high sugar would be to go on a low carb/ zero carb diet. This is because fat is digested differently and has low impact on blood sugars compared to eating carbohydrates or sugars, so you never have significantly raised blood sugar in the same way you do if you eat lots of carbs. The best thing to do exercise-wise is HIIT training- this flushes the sugar out of your muscle and liver and sugar will be stored here instead of the blood- you have 1500+ calories of storage to use up. Interestingly enough flushing the liver seems to drastically increase insulin sensitivity, meaning you will reduce your blood sugar levels extremely effectively in the short term, AND you will decrease your insulin resistance rapidly leading to long term cure of diabetes. Each HIIT session contains a total of 60 seconds of exercise, and is suitable for very unfit people who cannot perform traditional exercise such as a 10 minute cycle.
Is it dangerous to inject insulin if your not diabetic?
Yes, it is extremely dangerous to take insulin if you are not diabetic. Insulin acts on the glucose metabolism and lowers the blood sugar levels. This is done to treat the elevated blood sugars that are characteristic of diabetes. If a person who doesn’t have diabetes takes insulin injections, then the normal blood glucose levels will dip and produce a condition called hypoglycemia. This leads to inadequate supply of glucose needed for the body’s functioning at any given time.Hypoglycemia produces mild to moderate reactions like dizziness, trembling, hunger, irritability, faster heart rate, confusion, and headaches. In severe cases or if a mild case is not treated in time, hypoglycemia may cause unconsciousness, seizures, and coma.If you have accidentally taken insulin and are experiencing the symptoms of hypoglycemia, you need to contact emergency care. In an emergency, you can eat or drink sugar in some form, to increase your blood glucose level rapidly.The Editorial Team, 1mg
What happens if you don't take your diabetes medicine?
You get hyperglycaemia (high blood sugar), risking even coma and death.What you can do, on the contrary, which not only is safe but even healthy, and helps you to prevent long-term complications of diabetes, is follow a very well balanced healthy diet, and taking natural safe supplements and foods that help the body to “manage” glucose. This, done together with your doctor, keeping your glucose levels under daily control, and communicating them to the doctor, will allow HIM (not you!!!! No DIY when it comes to medications!!!) to gradually decrease your diabetes medications accordingly.About the diet part, you can find a useful summary in my article here:Carbohydrates Intake for a Healthy DietFor more extensive readings, in my opinion the best ever are:• Enter the zone, Barry Sears, PhD.• Grain brain, neurologist David Perlmutter• The zone Omega-3 Rx, Barry Sears againAs per supplements and foods to be taken like 20 minutes before the 3 main meals:• 300 mg of alpha lipoic acid (if sodium-R-Lipoate 200 mg are enough)• cinnamon ceylon (aka regina or vera), like 2 grams (Do not take common cinnamon available in stores on a regular basis. It’s the Chinese version, called cassia, which contains high levels of coumarin, a substance toxic for the liver)• 200 mg of purified and concentrated cinnamon extract, patented, named CinnamonRich. It comes from the Chinese cinnamon, but all the toxic fractions are removed. The most effective strategy is to combine this with the above whole cinnamon• Irvingia extract: 150 mg• Taurine: 1000 mg• Chia seedsAlways ask to a doctor specifically educated with nutraceuticals, especially if you are taking medications.All the best!
What happens when a diabetic stops taking their insulin on their own?
I was going to write a big answer describing all the causes and reasons for the different types of diabetes, but I thought that it would be better to keep it simple. There are two main types of diabetes: Type I and Type II. There is a Type III that is present in some women during pregnancy, but the rules for that are the same as for Type II and Type I. Below is the simple explanation of what happens when each of the two types stops their supplemental insulin regiment.Type I: When you stop taking your insulin, you quickly get tired, confused, drowsy and will pass into a coma and die as your body can no longer absorb enough glucose to fuel your cells, especially your brain cells. DO NOT STOP TAKING YOUR INSULIN!Type II: When you stop taking your insulin, you can immediately get:tiredthirstymay have to urinate excessivelymay get numb fingers and toesmay suffer from nasty headaches.NOTE: Type II diabetics will usually not immediately slip into a coma and die if they stop taking their insulin, but they will notice side effects.In the long term though, you are very likely to suffer one or more of the following:Severe nerve damage resulting in extreme pain in your extremitiesprogressive and unstoppable blindnesskidney failureorgan failure due to nerve damagepossible coma and death if your pancreas actually stops producing insulin due to being overworked (and you actually become a Type I diabetic as a result)heart attackstrokeheart diseaseliver failurehigh cholesterolhigh blood pressuredeath due to accumulated complicationsTo summarize, if you are diabetic and have been prescribed supplemental insulin by a health care professional, DO NOT STOP TAKING YOUR INSULIN!