Diabetes: An Introduction
Nowadays, diseases like diabetes have become common in every big and small city. Until a few years ago, such diseases used to happen only to people of a certain class or age, but due to the modern lifestyle of metropolitan cities and their lifestyle, food, and drink, the amount of sugar in diabetic patients is not controlled. This problem is detected when this disease takes a serious form.
Diabetes itself is the root of many more serious diseases and complications; the most powerful weapon to fight it is information about it and positive changes in lifestyle. It is also true that a good life can be lived even with diabetes. Just be aware and take the right steps. Let us all try to understand diabetes together and make our future better with diabetes.
Dr. Sandeep Saraf, MD, Physician, Diabetologist
What is Diabetes
Between our stomach and spinal cord, there is a gland called the pancreas, which makes a hormone called insulin. Insulin controls the amount of glucose (or sugar) in our blood. Our body makes glucose from the food we eat so that our body can get energy, but it needs insulin to do this work.When the amount of insulin in the body decreases or the efficiency of insulin decreases, the amount of sugar in the blood, i.e., the blood glucose level, increases. This condition of the body is called diabetes.