AP+Diabetes+Notes

What is Diabetes? Insulin:
 * The body does not produce or use insulin
 * Diabetes mellilus: "Sweet Urine"
 * pancreas makes insulin
 * Digestive Enzymes produced in pancreas used in small intestine
 * Body breaks food (carbs: bread, pasta, candy) into sugar
 * sugar is a source of the energy in the body and travels throw blodd stream to reach all the cells
 * pancreas releases insulin
 * insulin takes sugar from the blood and puts it into your body's cells
 * membrane on the cell there is a protein that can match the insulin
 * the insulin is a hormone and the other protein that is an receptor
 * insulin is the key other protein is a locker= if make a match another protein which is a glucose channel= then the glucose can go into the cells
 * if you dont have insulin then your cells cant get energy and then the glucose will go into the blood
 * without insulin sugar builds up in the blood
 * insulin is made by a gene

Diabetes Type one: Diabetes Type 2: What are the symptoms:
 * you have no insulin
 * in children and young adults
 * with them all their life
 * have to have daily injections on insulin
 * middle age or old adults
 * on a diet and daily exercise
 * body has too much insulin
 * the receptors (insulin resistant)
 * caused by abnormal amounts of glucose
 * too much glucose in the blood then you get too much insulin
 * the insulin is like a signal (too loud) background noise... the cells stop paying attention
 * too much insulin the pancreas stops making insulin
 * high glucose in blood: the glucose is taken out of the blood and into the kidneys
 * you can do a blood test
 * take a urine test
 * you would be urine more than you were drinking and would become dehydrated
 * over time the sugar starts to damage your kidneys, heart, eyes, foot problems, stroke
 * 2/3 ppl die from diabetes because of heart disease