Spiker
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- Type of diabetes
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It's one reason yes. Though actually the background insulin is more to inhibit the glycogen release than to metabolise the sugar. It is also needed to suppress gluconeogenesis and lipolysis, which otherwise run all the time whether appropriate or not, and to clear ketones generated by lipolysis and ketosis. Each of these processes in their own right would be fatal if not downregulated by injected insulin.I inject insulin because my body doesn't produce it. The body produces sugar even on a 0 carb diet, which is why background insulin is needed for type 1s,
Not sure what you mean here ?and when the body is pushed too hard it uses the background even better needing carbs without qa.
Because your body doesn't produce insulin, your body is (severely) carb intolerant.If I did not have insulin id be dead by now with or without them, not because I was carb intollerant but because my body didn't produce insulin.
If someone loses their legs, we say they are disabled. If we give them crutches, or even high tech prosthetic legs, we still say the person is disabled. Type 1 diabetes is the same thing. Injected insulin is a pair of crutches, not a pair of legs.
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