EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -T2D happens when your pancreas doesn’t make enough insulin or your body doesn’t use insulin well (insulin resistance), resulting in high blood glucose levels. Type 1 diabetes (T1D) happens when your body’s immune system attacks and destroys the insulin-producing cells in your pancreas for an unknown reason.

Detailed explanation-2: -Diabetes is caused by insulin deficiency or insulin resistance. Diabetes mellitus is caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin action. Hyperglycemia (abnormally elevated blood glucose) is the biochemical hallmark of diabetes mellitus, but the pathways of all major nutrients are deranged.

Detailed explanation-3: -An A1c level below 5.7% is considered normal, while levels between 5.7% and 6.4% suggest that your cells are not as sensitive to insulin as they should be, and suggests prediabetes. A level higher than 6.5% is considered diabetes.

Detailed explanation-4: -As insulin levels drop, blood sugar levels rise. If levels don’t return to normal, you may get type 2 diabetes.

Detailed explanation-5: -When you haven’t eaten for several hours and your blood sugar level drops, you will stop producing insulin. Another hormone from your pancreas called glucagon signals your liver to break down the stored glycogen and release glucose into your bloodstream.