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Understanding the Core Problem: Insulin and Blood Sugar

March 2, 2021 by  
Filed under Causes & Symptoms

To understand what causes diabetes, it helps to first understand what’s happening inside the body. When you eat carbohydrates (bread, rice, pasta, fruit, sugar, etc.), your digestive system breaks them down into glucose, which enters the bloodstream. Glucose is the body’s main fuel source, but it cannot effectively enter most cells without insulin. Insulin is […]