Diabetes is a disease that approaches you when blood glucose (blood sugar) is too high. Blood glucose is your essential source of energy and originates from the food you eat. Insulin, a hormone created by the pancreas, helps glucose from food get into your cells to be used for energy. However, occasionally your body doesn’t generate enough—or any—insulin or does not use insulin in the right way. Glucose then stays in your plasma and does not reach your cells.
Over time, having high potency glucose in your blood might cause health complications. Although diabetes has no treatment, you can make efforts to control your diabetes and stay healthy. Sometimes individuals call diabetes “a touch of sugar” or “borderline diabetes.” These words suggest that someone doesn’t have diabetes nor has a less severe disease; however, every case of diabetes is dangerous.
