Type 2 Diabetes

Type 2 diabetes is also known as adult onset diabetes. Type 2 diabetes develops when the body is no longer capable of using insulin to regulate the amount of glucose in the blood plasma. Glucose is highly regulated by the body because it is the most common source of energy, and the amount that is or is not absorbed by the muscles and organs can vastly alter how your body functions. Type 2 diabetes is typically characterized by the body's insulin resistance. People who have type 2 diabetes typically are no longer responsive to insulin, which increases the amount of insulin and glucose in the blood stream. This leads to high blood sugar, or hyperglycemia.

Type 2 diabetes can go for years before being diagnosed, because the symptoms for type 2 diabetes are not as consistent and pronounced as the symptoms for type 1 diabetes. The precise cause for insulin resistance and decreased insulin sensitivity, the two causes that lead to type 2 diabetes, are not known, but the amount of central body fat might have something to do with it.

Type 2 diabetes is initially treated by a change in lifestyle, which includes increased exercise, a decrease in the consumption of carbohydrates, and weight-loss. Type 2 diabetes does not require insulin injections because the main problem is that the body does not respond to the insulin currently in the blood stream.

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