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Diabetes Made Simple:

Diabetes is a condition in which body can't make energy from the food a person eats the way it normally should. Why so? What changes happen in body that leads to this condition.

Let's learn!

Before diving deep into what happens during diabetes, let's first learn what normally happens in our body. Whenever we eat food, it travels through our digestive system and gets digested and broken down into smaller pieces of molecules which are named Glucose, Amino acids or fatty acids and other fats.

In diabetes we have nothing to do with others but our matter is only Glucose. Then, let's discuss Glucose only and leave rest for discussion sometimes else. So this digested Glucose the from our digestive tract moves into our blood. Whenever the blood glucose level raises, the Organ in our body named Pancreas releases a hormone named as Insulin. This Insulin works as a gatekeeper for the Glucose. It opens up the channels on cell membranes of cells to let Glucose enter from the blood into the cells. And in the cells the glucose is further broken down to achieve energy from it, which cells use for different of its functions.

This was what happens in normal conditions, now let us tell you what occurs in diabetes.

In diabetes, either the pancreas becomes malfunction and doesn't produce enough Insulin to push Glucose into the cells from the blood (Type 1 Diabetes) or enough Insulin is produced by the Pancreas but the Insulin can't push the Glucose into the cells due to any reason (Type 2 Diabetes).

So, in both these conditions we can see that blood concentration of Glucose is increased. Increased blood Glucose causes change in the blood vessels either making them enlarge or making them smaller which leads to serious health problems like heart diseases, vision loss, kidneys disorder etc.