I’m looking an answer more in terms of the internal biological effects and not the treatment for these types of diabetes.
In type 1 diabetes, some agent, very likely a virus, attacks and destroys the beta cells that produce insulin. In type 2 diabetes, the insulin producing mechanisms wear out over time, and those insulin producing mechanisms can be exceeded by and/or exacerbated by too much weight, mass. Physical injury to the pancreas can also cause diabetes.
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October 14th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
Type 1 is caused by the body not producing enough insulin. type 2 is caused by an insensitivity of the insulin receptors on cells that use insulin.
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October 15th, 2009 at 12:22 am
In type 1 diabetes, some agent, very likely a virus, attacks and destroys the beta cells that produce insulin. In type 2 diabetes, the insulin producing mechanisms wear out over time, and those insulin producing mechanisms can be exceeded by and/or exacerbated by too much weight, mass. Physical injury to the pancreas can also cause diabetes.
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53 years, 7 months and counting of life as female type 1 diabetic, since I was 26 months old.
Wow! It’s hard not to get on my soap box that all type 1 diabetes is virally induced.