About Type 1 Diabetes

About Type One Diabetes

Typically Type One Diabetes occurs in childhood or adolescence. It is an Autoimmune Disorder where the body makes antibodies that attack the insulin hormone that produces cells in the pancreas. When this happens your body cannot properly store and use fuel for energy.

After you eat your food is broken down into components such as fats, amino acids and simple sugars from carbohydrates. Your liver processes these into one type of simple sugar that is called GLUCOSE.
Glucose then enters into body cells by flowing through the bloodstream with the help of a hormone called insulin. Without the help of the insulin which is produced by the pancreas, the glucose cannot pass into the cell wall and eventually the cell starves.
If there is not enough insulin made, the cells cannot respond to the insulin and because the glucose needs the insulin to enter into the cells it will stay in the blood stream. When this begins to happen your body will have to work harder to keep functioning, symptoms begin to appear quickly and your organs can then suffer severe damage.

Type One Diabetes is a chronic and is not subject to only the young. An older person can also get it if there has been a destruction of the pancreas due to alcohol, surgery that removed the pancreas or progressive failure of the beta cells which produce the insulin.