what is the difference between insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes?
Posted on Jun 26, 2009 under insulin resistance | 3 Commentsi know they are both related but doesn't an insulin resistance mean u have diabetes?
Type 2 diabetes is actually an extreme case of insulin resistance.
Carbohydrates are simply long chains of sugar molecules hooked end-to-end. When a person eats carbohydrates their normal digestive process breaks up these chains into the individual sugar molecules, and they pass right through the intestinal wall into the bloodstream, and load up the bloodstream with sugar.
If this happened every once in a while it would not be a problem. But as diets today are so high in carbohydrates, people have a constant high level of sugar pouring into their bloodstream year after year!
This requires their body to continuously produce high levels of insulin to keep that sugar level down. (Insulin’s job is to push sugar out of the bloodstream into the cells where it is used for energy.)
Eventually the cells in their body becomes insensitive to the effects of the insulin (insulin resistance). To handle this problem of insulin resistance their body begins to produce even higher levels of insulin. This continues until their pancreas reaches the maximum amount of insulin it can produce, and when the insulin resistance increases again, their blood sugar begins to rise out of control.
The result is type 2 diabetes! Type 2 diabetes is actually an extreme case of insulin resistance.
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June 27th, 2009 at 5:20 am
Type 2 diabetes is actually an extreme case of insulin resistance.
Carbohydrates are simply long chains of sugar molecules hooked end-to-end. When a person eats carbohydrates their normal digestive process breaks up these chains into the individual sugar molecules, and they pass right through the intestinal wall into the bloodstream, and load up the bloodstream with sugar.
If this happened every once in a while it would not be a problem. But as diets today are so high in carbohydrates, people have a constant high level of sugar pouring into their bloodstream year after year!
This requires their body to continuously produce high levels of insulin to keep that sugar level down. (Insulin’s job is to push sugar out of the bloodstream into the cells where it is used for energy.)
Eventually the cells in their body becomes insensitive to the effects of the insulin (insulin resistance). To handle this problem of insulin resistance their body begins to produce even higher levels of insulin. This continues until their pancreas reaches the maximum amount of insulin it can produce, and when the insulin resistance increases again, their blood sugar begins to rise out of control.
The result is type 2 diabetes! Type 2 diabetes is actually an extreme case of insulin resistance.
References :
http://www.diabetes-support.com/articles
June 27th, 2009 at 5:42 am
http://www.cmeondiabetes.com/pub/insulin.resistance.php
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June 27th, 2009 at 6:28 am
Prediabetes can be called many different things such as insulin resistance, impaired glucose tolerance, and impaired fasting glucose. They all boil down to a warning sign that you body is beginning to resist insulin and your blood glucose levels are starting to become higher than they should be. Whatever name you decide to call it doesn’t matter, but it does show us that type 2 diabetes develops slowly and this may mean that it can be avoided. Since your body develops into this state of being insulin resistant, what are the signs and how do we avoid it?
To answer your question insulin resistance = prediabetes and type 2 = full diabetes.
Here is a web page that will give you more information.
Good luck to you.
References :
http://www.enjoying-life-with-diabetes.com/prediabetes.html