Type 1 Diabetes

There is a hormone in your body called insulin. Insulin is secreted by your organ called the pancreas. What happens is that any meal or sugar that you eat will cause the pancreas to secret the right amount of insulin to take the nutrients that you have eaten to feed the individual cells in your body.

However what happens when you have diabetes type 1 is that your immune system attacks the insulin producing cells of the pancreas. Although the immune system of the body is made to trigger an attack against foreign bodies, like bacteria, in you system. Instead it attacks parts of your body which results in a lack of insulin produced by your own body.

One type of sugar that the insulin moves to our cells is called glucose. Glucose is an important sugar for the functioning of our cells. It brings energy to our system. However when we have type 1 diabetes this whole system is thrown into a mess. What happens is the whole body goes into alert because the sugar in our blood from our food was not distributed to the cells that need it.

The blood is now full of sugar. Our cells are screaming for sugar. And our body must look elsewhere for the energy that supposed to be supplied to our cells by the insulin bearing sugar.