Are you concerned about adult onset diabetes symptoms?
That likely means you or someone you love may have the disease. I'm sorry. It can still be devastating despite recent advances in medicine. It's still the number one cause of kidney failure and blindness and the number seven cause of death in America.
The good news is that you're looking for symptoms. And if you get out ahead of the disease you can stop it and even turn it around.
But what do you look for?
Here's the top of the list of adult onset diabetes symptoms (and a very important overlooked fact at the end):
Unquenchable thirst and frequent urination.
Why these two?
They go hand-in-hand. What's happening is that your body's cells are no longer taking in sugar effectively (insulin normally triggers them to do this). So it floats free in your blood.
Once it gets above a concentration of 180 mg/dl, your kidney can't filter it out, and it gets into your urine. Now your urine is soaking up water to dilute the sugar. So your kidneys fill, you have to pee, and you're thirsty.
That's your signal that you have too much sugar in your blood and it's the cause and the beginning of all the bad things you've heard about diabetes.
The basic problem of diabetes is that your cells can't absorbe glucose well. So it ends up in the wrong place.
It's in your blood and urine and not in your cells.
Glucose is your energy source. And your cells can't burn enough because they can't get enough. So your body may start tearing down your muscles and fat, trying to find more.
It can overwhelm your kidneys ability to filter it out. And it can make your eyes swell so you can't focus.
Now, here's the overlooked fact:
You won't experience a lot of the symptoms of adult onset diabetes until your blood glucose hits 180 mg/dl. And you can already be damaging your body before that.
Here's the key to diabetes health - your habits. If you have habits that don't help, your condition gets worse. If you have healthy habits, you live a long life.
That likely means you or someone you love may have the disease. I'm sorry. It can still be devastating despite recent advances in medicine. It's still the number one cause of kidney failure and blindness and the number seven cause of death in America.
The good news is that you're looking for symptoms. And if you get out ahead of the disease you can stop it and even turn it around.
But what do you look for?
Here's the top of the list of adult onset diabetes symptoms (and a very important overlooked fact at the end):
Unquenchable thirst and frequent urination.
Why these two?
They go hand-in-hand. What's happening is that your body's cells are no longer taking in sugar effectively (insulin normally triggers them to do this). So it floats free in your blood.
Once it gets above a concentration of 180 mg/dl, your kidney can't filter it out, and it gets into your urine. Now your urine is soaking up water to dilute the sugar. So your kidneys fill, you have to pee, and you're thirsty.
That's your signal that you have too much sugar in your blood and it's the cause and the beginning of all the bad things you've heard about diabetes.
The basic problem of diabetes is that your cells can't absorbe glucose well. So it ends up in the wrong place.
It's in your blood and urine and not in your cells.
Glucose is your energy source. And your cells can't burn enough because they can't get enough. So your body may start tearing down your muscles and fat, trying to find more.
It can overwhelm your kidneys ability to filter it out. And it can make your eyes swell so you can't focus.
Now, here's the overlooked fact:
You won't experience a lot of the symptoms of adult onset diabetes until your blood glucose hits 180 mg/dl. And you can already be damaging your body before that.
Here's the key to diabetes health - your habits. If you have habits that don't help, your condition gets worse. If you have healthy habits, you live a long life.
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