Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder defined by excessive blood sugar (glucose) levels caused by insulin secretion or insulin use abnormalities.

Insulin, a hormone generated by the pancreas, normally keeps blood glucose levels in check. Insulin is a hormone that reduces blood glucose levels. Insulin is secreted from the pancreas when blood glucose levels rise (for example, after eating). Insulin works like a key to the receptor on the surface of a cell and stimulates glucose absorption into the cells when it is released. Hyperglycemia is caused by a lack of insulin synthesis or a lack of insulin responsiveness in diabetic patients. Diabetes is a chronic medical illness, which means that it cannot be cured and must be managed for the rest of one’s life.

The pancreas cannot manufacture insulin in people with type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes was previously known as insulin-dependent diabetes or juvenile diabetes. Insulin resistance (cells that are unable to utilize insulin efficiently or at all) is a more common cause of type 2 diabetes. It was previously known as non-insulin-dependent diabetes or adult-onset diabetes.

• Type I diabetes usually has genetic factors involved, but the gene may never express and turn into diabetes unless triggered by such as stress, improper diet, and infections.
  
• Type II diabetes is more associated with overweight, stress, nutrition imbalance, or accumulation of toxin in the human body.

If you have type 1 diabetes, you’ll require daily insulin shots to stay on top of things. Type 1 diabetes has yet to be cured or reversed by scientists.
By decreasing weight, some patients with type 2 diabetes may be able to reverse the condition. If a person’s blood sugar levels have been normal for six months or more, they are in remission.
However, remission does not guarantee that type 2 diabetes will not recur.
Steps like decreasing weight and exercising frequently can help someone with prediabetes reverse insulin resistance. These measures may help to avoid or slow the onset of type 2 diabetes.

The main goal of type 1 and type 2 diabetes treatment is to keep blood sugar (glucose) levels in the normal range with few excursions to low or high levels.
The following medications are used to treat type 1 diabetes:

Insulin, exercise, and a type 1 diabetic diet are all important.
Type 2 diabetes is managed in the following ways:
Weight loss, a type 2 diabetic diet, and exercise are the first steps.
When these methods fail to control the increased blood glucose of type 2 diabetes, diabetic medicines (oral or injectable) are recommended.
If other drugs are ineffective, insulin treatment may be started.

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Alternative diabetes treatments

There have been a few tiny, limited studies as well as anecdotal accounts that certain alternative or “natural” remedies can assist persons with diabetes to maintain their blood glucose levels or preventing the condition or its complications. Herbs and dietary supplements are examples of these. Garlic, cinnamon, alpha-lipoic acid, aloe vera, chromium, ginseng, and magnesium are among the examples.

A person can find out if they are at risk of prediabetes by taking a simple screening test from the CDC. If the test indicates an increased risk, a person should consult their doctor about getting a blood sugar test to determine whether they have diabetes or prediabetes.

If you have diabetes symptoms, you should see a doctor. Among the signs and symptoms are:

• urinating on an excessive basis, 
• severe thirst, and impaired eyesight
• tingling, 
• numbness or pain in the feet or hands tingling, 
• numbness, or pain in the feet or hands fatigue

Or if you have diabetes, accompanied by high blood pressure, high cholesterol, kidney failure and other comorbidities, you absolutely need to take action to control your diabetes.