Info on Diabetes

Usually when we search about Info On Diabetes, we search for what is Diabetes exactly. But usually we don't understand the mechanisms behind diabetes. This article about Info on Diabetes will start differently. I will do a brief physiological revision.

The Pancreas produces two hormones - Insuline and Glucagon. The Glucagon action is the opposite of Insuline. Glucagon rises the glicemia (amount of sugar on the blood) levels and Insuline lowers glicemia levels.
We can say that Insuline is the "key" that allows glucose to enter in the cells (reason why the sugar levels drop). Without Insuline, most organs could not capture glucose, and without glucose, our organism could not survive.

Glicemia Levels

In normal conditions, the glicemia levels flutate around 80mg/dl. When we eat, the glicemia levels rise to values around 120 mg/dl. The increase in sugar levels will stimulate the insuline production to drop glicemia to normal levels.
On the opposite side, if the glicemia levels drop too much (40mg/dl), the brain will send alert signals to other parts of the body that will launch into the blood several hormones, like Glucagon. This will make the sugar levels rise.

Liver and glicemia levels

The liver is an important organ involved in the glicemia regulation. It works as if it was a glucose factory. It can produce glucose by degrading aminoacids and glycogen. This way, the liver can help maintain normal glicemia levels even when we don't eat for a while.
I told you the liver produced glucose by degrading glycogen. Well, when the sugar isn't used by cells, the liver is responsible to transform the glucose to glycogen to be deposited for later use.

So, how does our body maintain glicemia levels?

This is possible because of Insuline.
In a simplistic way, Insuline stops the production of glucose on the liver by blocking the exit, and makes the already available glucose to be deposited in the liver.
So, when we eat enough, and enough insuline was segregated, there is no glucose released by the liver. Instead, it is deposited.
When we eat little, there is not much insuline produced, so glucose is freed from the liver.

This is the first part of Info On Diabetes.
You can read the second part here.