Type 2 diabetes

  Dr David Lloyd discusses using diabetes drug for anti-aging Diabetes is a condition that causes the blood sugar level in an individual’s blood to become too high. There are two types of diabetes, Type 1, and Type 2. Type 1, says the NHS, is “where the body’s immune system attack and destroys the cells that produce insulin”. In contrast Type 2 is “where the body does not produce enough insulin, or the body’s cells do not react to insulin.” Type 2 is the most common form of diabetes, making up around 90 percent of those diagnosed. Diabetes, like every condition, has a number of signs and symptoms that can indicate if someone has the condition. However, the body can also send out signals when a person is pre-diabetic. If someone is pre-diabetic, it means that their blood sugar levels are high, but not high enough to class the person as having diabetes. READ MORE:  Visceral fat: The lipid-lowering herb to help burn the fat One of the symptoms of prediabetes is a rash. A "warning...

  Everyone starts their day with a routine, and like most people these days, mine starts by checking my phone. But where most people look for the weather update, local traffic, or even check Twitter or Facebook, I use my phone to peer an inch inside my daughter’s abdomen. There, a tiny electrochemical sensor continuously samples the fluid between her cells, measuring the concentration of glucose so that we can control the amount of insulin she’s receiving through her insulin pump. Type 1 diabetes is a nasty disease, usually sprung on the victim early in life and making every day a series of medical procedures – calculating the correct amount of insulin to use for each morsel of food consumed, dealing with the inevitable high and low blood glucose readings, and pinprick after pinprick to test the blood. Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) has been a godsend to us and millions of diabetic families, as it gives us the freedom to let our kids be kids and go on sleepovers and have ...