Type 2 Diabetes (NIH)

Type 2 diabetes (adult onset diabetes) is defined by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a chronic condition that affects the way your body processes sugar. It is the most common form of diabetes, which accounts for 90-95% of the diabetic population worldwide (347 + million). With type 2 diabetes, you are one of 2 things - resistant to your body’s own insulin ( the hormone that regulates sugar) or your body doesn’t produce enough insulin to control the sugar in your body. *Let me clear one thing up here, diabetes does NOT have to be a chronic or lifelong disease as the NIH says. There are steps you can take to reverse the disease and put into remission. There is a misconception that type 2 diabetes is a result of being overweight or because of your family history (genetics). Yes, these are factors in the overall picture that is type 2 diabetes but not the actual root cause.Diabetes is a result of …show more content…
This usually occurs when there are high levels of oxidative stress in ones' life. With this type of inflammation, there are no symptoms for prolonged periods of time, until it’s too late. Chronic inflammation can then lead to many other disease states like heart disease, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, cancer, and of course diabetes. This chronic inflammation affects the body’s cells ability to absorb insulin (insulin resistance) or affect insulin production, the exact definition of type 2 diabetes. Remember how I said, being overweight is a factor in type 2 diabetes? As you gain weight your fat cells expand causing a restriction of blood flow to your cells and those cells eventually die, thus activating more inflammation. Inflammation and insulin resistance feed into each other. More inflammation equals increased insulin resistance, more insulin resistance equals more inflammation...A nasty cycle of