What Causes Diabetes

Find out……what causes Diabetes?

If you are wondering what causes diabetes…….then you are not alone.

Some of the greatest scientists in the world are still trying to work out why people have diabetes.

Although there is no definite explanation for this chronic disease, there are a few major factors which are believed to play a big part in causing diabetes.

Before we go into what we know are some of the causes of diabetes, you need to know about what types of diabetes there are.

Let’s start with type one.

Type 1 diabetes is also known as Juvenile Diabetes because it mainly develop in children or teenagers. 

There is a chance that type 1 diabetes may happen to adults, but this is very unlikely. Type 1 diabetes happens because the pancreas’s beta cells are not creating insulin properly.

Sometimes they will make a little insulin… sometimes there is no insulin being produced at all.

Insulin is what our body uses to take the sugar from the foods we have eaten to the cells of our body. The cells can then turn the sugar (glucose) into energy.

When someone has had type 1 diabetes for five or ten years, the beta cells completely stop working if they hadn’t already.

Type 1 diabetics have to take frequent amounts of insulin from an external source throughout the day otherwise they will not stay healthy and can slip into unconsciousness and very bad things can happen.

Type 2 diabetes is regularly found in those whom are overweight.

Contraire to not making enough insulin, type 2 diabetics’ bodies can not cope with the amount of insulin they produce. This can often be because the large amount of fat throughout their body interferes with the way they process insulin.

People with this disease can use oral medications to look after themselves.

While no one is completely sure what causes type 1 diabetes, there is no limit to the theories.

Sometimes some bacterial infections or viruses can lead to diabetes.

The exposure to certain chemical toxins in food can prompt a diabetic reaction.

Some studies have shown cow’s milk to be a problem if a child is given it too young. An autoimmune reaction may occur which will cause diabetes to develop.

They may all be theories, but it’s a start. Avoiding these things will hopefully at least help prevent diabetes to develop in some cases.

There are also some strong theories on what causes type 2 diabetes.

One of these theories is a body’s lack of insulin. But no one is quite sure what would cause this.

Or perhaps there is a problem with the insulin the body has produced so the cells reject it.

There is also the idea that maybe the body’s cells are not stimulated by insulin.

This theory has gone so far as to be given a name; “insulin resistance”.

It is believed this would lead the pancreas to make too much insulin, so the beta cells which produce it are completely worn out.

As we age, we become more vulnerable to the development of type 2 diabetes.

It is almost a certainty that not enough exercise and being overweight are major causes of type 2 diabetes.

Although these are just theories, they are the best indicators we have, so it is best to avoid them if possible.

If you have any of the possible causes of diabetes and think you might be a diabetic, go to your doctor straight away!

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