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<blockquote data-quote="Nicole T" data-source="post: 2337514" data-attributes="member: 527609"><p>My utter layman's understanding: T2 is, fundamentally, insulin resistance. Your body no longer responds to it correctly, and it takes a lot more of the hormone to bring your blood sugar levels down. Your elevated sugar levels still trigger your pancreas to work flat out producing insulin to bring them down, and it's this constant stress that ultimately wears your pancreas out. It's like revving an engine to death to try to compensate for a badly slipping clutch on a hill start. As the damage to your pancreas worsens, its ability to produce insulin decreases. You're now dealing with a double whammy of both producing inadequate amounts of insulin, and not responding adequately to the amounts that you do.</p><p></p><p>There's a good explanation of how a number of diabetes medications work here:</p><p><a href="https://www.ahrq.gov/prevention/curriculum/chroniccaremodel/chronic2a12c.html" target="_blank">https://www.ahrq.gov/prevention/curriculum/chroniccaremodel/chronic2a12c.html</a></p><p></p><p>Most stimulate your pancreas to produce more insulin, stimulate your body to respond better to insulin, or inhibit your liver from dumping sugar into your blood. But once you don't have enough capacity to produce insulin for these to be sufficient, you're going to need to start to inject.</p><p></p><p>The low carb diet approach, tries to limit the amount of sugar that gets into your blood in the first place, thus reducing your dependence on these processes. There are also drugs that can partially inhibit digestion of carbs, allowing a lower carb uptake from a higher carb diet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nicole T, post: 2337514, member: 527609"] My utter layman's understanding: T2 is, fundamentally, insulin resistance. Your body no longer responds to it correctly, and it takes a lot more of the hormone to bring your blood sugar levels down. Your elevated sugar levels still trigger your pancreas to work flat out producing insulin to bring them down, and it's this constant stress that ultimately wears your pancreas out. It's like revving an engine to death to try to compensate for a badly slipping clutch on a hill start. As the damage to your pancreas worsens, its ability to produce insulin decreases. You're now dealing with a double whammy of both producing inadequate amounts of insulin, and not responding adequately to the amounts that you do. There's a good explanation of how a number of diabetes medications work here: [URL]https://www.ahrq.gov/prevention/curriculum/chroniccaremodel/chronic2a12c.html[/URL] Most stimulate your pancreas to produce more insulin, stimulate your body to respond better to insulin, or inhibit your liver from dumping sugar into your blood. But once you don't have enough capacity to produce insulin for these to be sufficient, you're going to need to start to inject. The low carb diet approach, tries to limit the amount of sugar that gets into your blood in the first place, thus reducing your dependence on these processes. There are also drugs that can partially inhibit digestion of carbs, allowing a lower carb uptake from a higher carb diet. [/QUOTE]
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