Diabetes: From frequent toilet visits to tiredness, the warning signs of high blood sugar
Once your food is digested and enters your bloodstream, this hormone helps to take up glucose out of your blood and into your cells, the NHS stated.
Here, the sugar is broken down to produce energy. However, if you have diabetes your body is unable to go through this process.
Because diabetics either can’t produce any insulin, don’t produce enough of it or the one they do produce isn’t effective.
Hence, your blood glucose can climb up to dangerous heights.
Source: | This article first appeared on Express.co.uk