Diabetes

INSULIN is a hormone made by your pancreas that acts like a key to let blood sugar into the cells in your body for use as energy. 

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PREDIABETES is a serious health condition where blood sugar levels are higher than normal, but not high enough yet to be diagnosed as type 2 diabetes. 

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If you have TYPE 2 DIABETES, cells don’t respond normally to insulin; this is called insulin resistance. Your pancreas makes more insulin to try to get cells to respond. Eventually your pancreas can’t keep up, and your blood sugar rises.

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If you have TYPE 1 DIABETES, your pancreas doesn’t make insulin or makes very little insulin. Without insulin, blood sugar can’t get into cells and builds up in the bloodstream. High blood sugar is damaging to the body and causes many of the symptoms and complications of diabetes.