Monday, December 3, 2012

What's the difference between Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes?

Q. What's the difference between Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes?

A. Difference between type 1 and type 2
What is Type 1 Diabetes?
Type 1 Diabetes is a disorder in which the body does not produce insulin (a hormone that aids in moving sugar from the blood to the cells). This type of diabetes can be due to a virus or autoimmune disorder in which the body does not recognize an organ as its own and attacks it. In this case the body attacks an organ known as the pancreas where insulin is made. This type of diabetes is usually diagnosed before age 40.
What is the treatment for Type 1 Diabetes?
Those with Type 1 Diabetes are required to take insulin injections to move sugar from the bloodstream.
What about Type 2 Diabetes?
Type 2 Diabetes occurs when insulin that the body produces is less efficient at moving sugar out of the bloodstream. Some sugar is moved out of the blood, just not as effectively compared to a person with normal insulin efficiency. High blood sugar is a result of this. Type 2 Diabetes used to be thought of as the adult onset type of diabetes. However, an alarming rate of children are now being diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes.
How is Type 2 Diabetes Treated?
Diet, exercise, weight loss, and in many cases medication are the treatment for this type of diabetes. Occasionally, someone with Type 2 may be placed on insulin to better control blood sugar. This type of diabetes is associated with physical inactivity and obesity.

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How do proteins and enzymes hace to do with type 2 diabetes?
Q. Hey guys, umm yea thats my question. If you have any specific sources please list them. And i mean how is the defect or absence of a specific protein or enzyme cause type 2 diabetes, not how do you treat diabetes with proteins. Thanks in advance and please i need the asap!

A. I don't think it is the absence of a protein or enzyme that causes type 2 diabetes.


Do people with Type 2 diabetes have too much or to little or insulin?
Q. Type 2 diabetes is when you have too much sugar.

A. Type 1 Diabetes is:

Classed as autoimmune usually diagnosed in children and young adults
where the pancreas is not producing enough insulin to encourage needed energy into cells


Type 2 Diabetes is:

Usually but not always, diagnosed in mature people
where the pancreas is usually making more than enough insulin but the cells are resisting its efforts to let energy pass through their membranes.

Hope this helps.


What are some risk factors for type 1 and type 2 diabetes?
Q. What are some risk factors for type 1 and type 2 diabetes? What went wrong with the insulin production and how does that affect the body�s ability to fuel itself with blood sugar? This is a bit confusing to me so I would appreciate any help. Thank you.

A. Type 1: In majority of cases, the causes is unknown (idiopathic diabetes). In other cases, immune disorders can cause type 1 diabetes. Factors that precipitate the diabetes onset include certain bacteria, viruses and some food chemical toxins. Other factors include: family history; ethnicity (non-Hispanic population such as Americans, Caucasians); auto-immune disorder (celiac or thyroid diseases); when your mom has stopped breastfeeding you in the first three months; being a men.

In this case your body recognizes its cells as "stranger" and begins to fight them. Therefore, beta cells of pancreas are destroyed and cannot produce anymore insulin.

Type 2: Risk factors are divided in a) those you can control (weight; diet; alcohol intake; smoking; stress; malnutrition), and b) those you can't control (family history; age; being part of high-risk population).

In this case, beta cells of pancreas can still produce insulin; however for the above-mentioned factors, this insulin is not effective in the periphery (muscle or fat cells).

In both cases (type 1 and 2 diabetes); what we have inherited in our genes is a major factor.





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