Extract from notes: "TYPE 1 DIABETES – inability to produce insulin
- Unable to produce insulin
- Beta cells in the islets of Langerhans do not produce insulin
- Can’t be cured/prevented
- Autoimmune disease: body’s own immune system attacks the beta cells
- Begins in childhood
TYPE 2 DIABETES – insulin resistance
- Person’s beta cells do not produce enough insulin
OR
- Person’s body cells do not respond properly to insulin (the glycoprotein insulin receptors on their C.S.M don’t work properly) body cells lose their responsiveness to insulin do not take up enough glucose, leaving it in the bloodstream
- Due to excess body weight, physical inactivity, habitual eating of refined carbohydrates
- Begins 50+ years"
- Unable to produce insulin
- Beta cells in the islets of Langerhans do not produce insulin
- Can’t be cured/prevented
- Autoimmune disease: body’s own immune system attacks the beta cells
- Begins in childhood
TYPE 2 DIABETES – insulin resistance
- Person’s beta cells do not produce enough insulin
OR
- Person’s body cells do not respond properly to insulin (the glycoprotein insulin receptors on their C.S.M don’t work properly) body cells lose their responsiveness to insulin do not take up enough glucose, leaving it in the bloodstream
- Due to excess body weight, physical inactivity, habitual eating of refined carbohydrates
- Begins 50+ years"
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