This is How You Get Type 2 Diabetes

Diabetes comes in two types. Type 1 Diabetes is mostly genetic and autoimmune. Type 2 Diabetes, however, is mostly environmental and highly influenced by your lifestyle choices.

What is Type 2 Diabetes and What Can It Lead To?

When you eat, your blood sugar increases (glucose in your blood increases). This increased blood sugar after a meal needs to go somewhere. It can’t just stay in your bloodstream. Type 2 Diabetes disagrees with this.

The cells in your body need that glucose after a meal in order to survive. Your cells take up that glucose and break glucose down in order to synthesize ATP (fancy way of saying energy). So, basically, your cells need glucose for energy, otherwise, without ATP, your cells can die.

What causes the glucose to enter your cells? Insulin. Thanks to your pancreas, insulin is secreted into the bloodstream after a meal because your pancreatic beta cells sense the high blood glucose and secretes insulin in order to decrease the blood glucose levels. Insulin tells your cells to take in the blood glucose from the bloodstream.

However, when you have Type 2 Diabetes your cells become teenagers and stop listening to the insulin. If your cells don’t respond to the insulin your pancreas is so kindly secreting, glucose doesn’t enter your cells. What does this mean? Your blood glucose remains high, which is indicative of Type 2 Diabetes. When your cells ignore insulin like this, it means you have insulin resistance.

Type 2 Diabetes can lead to heart disease, nerve damage, stroke, immune system complications, vasculitis (blood vessel inflammation), and etc.

How to Get Type 2 Diabetes

Lets talk about things you can do in order to get Type 2 Diabetes. If you want Type 2 Diabetes, don’t lift weights, don’t do any cardio or aerobic exercises, don’t eat much fiber, and eat minimal protein and fats. You do all this in a persistently, Type 2 Diabetes will be waiting just around the corner to welcome you later in life. Consistently eat high carbohydrate food or foods that are really high on the glycemic index scale. High carbohydrate foods mixed with a lot of unhealthy fats can increase inflammation in the body, which can lead to mitochondrial dysfunction and contribute to type 2 diabetes (Galicia-Garcia et al., 2020). Constantly pairing this up with minimal exercise and you are basically asking to get Type 2 Diabetes. In addition, wash all those high carbohydrate foods with few sugary beverages. That works very well by stressing your pancreas to secrete high amounts of insulin. Guess what happens if your pancreas keeps releasing high amounts of insulin repeatedly? Your cells stop listening to insulin. In another words, say hello to Type 2 Diabetes.

The Real Message to Take Away From This Article

By the way, this whole article is sarcasm before you start thinking I am evil for promoting Type 2 Diabetes. In fact, I am trying to do the opposite. I hope you got what I am trying to say. Eat foods rich in fiber, high in nutrients, low in simple carbohydrates (if you really need to, choose complex carbohydrates), and high in protein and healthy fats. Moreover, exercise by doing both anaerobic and aerobic exercise (lifting weights and cardio, respectively). Lifting weights are great to decrease type 2 diabetes because contracting the muscles increase blood flow to the muscles which means more glucose in the blood have a chance of going inside your muscle cells, therefore, reducing blood glucose levels (Galicia-Garcia et al., 2020).

Medical Disclaimer: I am not a doctor. This is not medical advice. Make sure to see your doctor/health care provider for any medical issues.

References

Galicia-Garcia, U., Benito-Vicente, A., Jebari, S., Larrea-Sebal, A., Siddiqi, H., Uribe, K. B., Ostolaza, H., & Martín, C. (2020). Pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes mellitus. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 21(17), 6275. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21176275