Insulin Yeye

Approximately 5% of the world's population, or 422 million people, are living with diabetes. Diabetes is a metabolic disease that affects insulin production and the body's ability to respond to insulin. Insulin regulates glucose in the bloodstream and allows the body to use blood sugar as fuel. Type 1 diabetes prevents the regulation and metabolism of blood sugar, leading to serious health complications and ultimately, death. By now I'm sure most people know someone who is currently living with diabetes, or at least what it is in simple terms. In fact, according to the World Health Organization, there are about 422 million people currently living with both types of diabetes, or approximately 5% of the population. But what is it exactly? Well, McGill's medical guide defines it as a metabolic disease resulting in insufficient insulin production or an inability to respond to insulin. So let me explain. Insulin is basically what regulates glucose in your bloodstream and lets your body use blood sugar as fuel. It creates a chemical reaction to this sugar and allows protein cells to be able to use that sugar as the primary specimens for bones and organs. So someone with type 1 diabetes would be unable to regulate and metabolize blood sugar, which if you don't already know, is extremely serious. Since our body uses blood sugar as its primary source of fuel, this would lead to much of the patient's blood sugar being expelled in their urine and eventually becoming blind or other health complications. So patients would slowly die as they were deprived of glucose.