Sarah Kim

And insulin goes throughout your body and allows cells to actually take up the glucose into the cell.

So imagine your cell is a house and it has a door.

But in order for the glucose to go into the house, it needs the key.

So you use the key to open the door.

The key is insulin.

So if you don't have insulin, that doesn't happen and there's a problem.

Yeah, great question.

So type 2 diabetes is a little bit different.

It is a combination of insulin resistance and some insulin deficiency.

So insulin resistance means that the insulin's there, the keys are there, but you need like five keys to open the door instead of just one key because the one key is not strong enough.

And so your body has to make extra insulin

In order to do insulin's job.

And then over time, one can say that the cells that make insulin get exhausted, they start to die and are non-functional.

And so you have actually then a decline in insulin production.

So you have both a resistance to insulin and also just not enough insulin.

So when we say blood sugar, it's just our casual way of saying blood glucose.

Yeah, because it's the sugar in the blood.

And blood glucose has a healthy range.

So in people without diabetes, blood glucose can range anywhere from as low as maybe 60 milligrams per deciliter of blood up to maybe about 140 after a meal.

milligrams per deciliter of blood.