Diabetes Mellitus: What You Should know.

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Diabetes Mellitus: What You Should know

Diabetes mellitus (or diabetes) is a chronic, lifelong condition that affects your body’s ability to use the energy found in food. There are three major types of diabetes: type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, and gestational diabetes.

All types of diabetes mellitus have something in common. Normally, your body breaks down the sugars and carbohydrates you eat into a special sugar called glucose. Glucose fuels the cells in your body. But the cells need insulin, a hormone, in your bloodstream in order to take in the glucose and use it for energy. With diabetes mellitus, either your body doesn’t make enough insulin, it can’t use the insulin it does produce, or a combination of both.

Since the cells can’t take in the glucose, it builds up in your blood. High levels of blood glucose can damage the tiny blood vessels in your kidneys, heart, eyes, or nervous system.

Diabetes complications. can be deadly.Diabetes increases your risk for many serious health problems

The good news? With the correct treatment and recommended lifestyle changes, many people with diabetes are able to prevent or delay the onset of complications. Diabetes — especially if left untreated — can eventually cause heart disease, stroke, kidney disease (For example, kidney failure is the cause of death for 10-20% of diabetics) , blindness, amputation, and nerve damage to nerves in the feet.

Normal Glucose Level
Blood sugar or plasma glucose tests are used to determine the concentration of glucose in blood. These tests are used to detect an increased blood glucose (hyperglycemia) or a decreased blood glucose (hypoglycemia).

Normal blood glucose level is 70-140milligrams per deciliter (4-8mmols). Below 70 is hypoglycemia,and you will show symptoms of feeling,dizzy,sweaty,tired and eventually if it is not corrected by giving that person some sugar he or she will go into shock..above 140 and more is hyperglycemia and that’s being diabetic.

The global diabetes epidemic is continuing on a relentless upward trend, fueled by poor diet, sedentary activity and rising rates of overweight and obesity.

Type 2 diabetes (accounts for about 95% of cases in adults) is 100% reversible and preventable with the proper lifestyle changes
Conventional diabetes treatment focusing on lowering blood sugar levels with drugs may not at all address the root cause of the disease and could typically makes diabetics progressively worse
Replacing grains and sugars in your diet with high-quality protein and veggies, (Cruciferous veggies like broccoli,pumpkins (elegede) cabbage, mustard seeds and similar green leaf vegetables) contain sulforaphane, an organic sulfur compound that’s antidiabetic and antimicrobial and engaging in appropriately intense exercise, are two keys to preventing and reversing this disease

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