What are the characteristics of Type II diabetes?

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Hi, everybody. Let's take a look at our next problem. It says true or false insulin resistance of the target cells causes type two diabetes. So we know that in both type one and type two diabetes, the body has issues regulating blood sugar. So what is the characteristic of type two diabetes? Our question is true or false. Is this insulin resistance of the target cells? While this is correct. Type two diabetes results from insulin resistance. We call that type one diabetes is an autoimmune condition where the immune system attacks pancreas cells. So the body can no longer produce insulin. So type two, the body is producing insulin, but the cells aren't able to use it to efficiently take up glucose. Whereas in type one, the body's insulin producing cells are actually destroyed. So we recall that insulin helps the body take up circulating glucose from the bloodstream and either use it for energy or store it. So if these cells have developed insulin resistance doesn't matter if there's insulin telling you to take up this glucose, the cells can't respond. So inevitably the circulating blood glucose level gets too high. Now this also causes further consequences. Besides just the damage that high blood glucose levels can have. Which is that since your body still can produce insulin. If there's these high glucose levels in the blood, the body gets a message to churn out more insulin to try and take care of this problem. So the pancreas is turning away, turning out tons and tons of insulin. When this happens, the cells that produce insulin can actually become damaged from this overproduction. And now the body can no longer produce insulin. So you end up in the same place as with type type one diabetes where the body isn't able to produce its own insulin. But going back to our original true or false statement, the cause of type two diabetes in the first place is that insulin resistance of the target cells. So our answer is that this statement here is true and that that is the cause of type two diabetes as opposed to type one. See you in the next video.

What are the characteristics of Type II diabetes?

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Key Concepts

Insulin Resistance

Metabolic Syndrome

Lifestyle Factors