A Little about Insulin

Many people do not realize how insulin works in the body. The primary thing that insulin does is remove excess sugar from the blood cells and transports them to the fat cells of the body. That is why many people gain weight when they get control of their diabetes and go on daily insulin shots. This is also a reason that you can have a difficult time losing weight if you’re diabetic.

Insulin is produced in the pancreas. You can have healthy amounts of insulin and not be able to use it. These people are insulin resistant and have to have oral medications or injections in order to increase the amount of insulin in the body. It’s not that you don’t produce enough insulin but that you don’t use it well. You have to have larger quantities of insulin to get the same effect as someone that isn’t diabetic.

Some people have problems and don’t produce enough insulin. For these people, it is important to have insulin in order to have enough in the body for it to do its work. Many people that don’t produce enough insulin end up having to take injections on a daily basis. It is harder to control the diabetes because the slightest change can affect the whole system.