Many people think that taking insulin is like smoking a big cigarette, once you use it, it won’t go away, so they see it as a flood. It is a misconception, or at least very one-sided, that people with diabetes are addicted to insulin. Insulin is a hormone secreted by the body itself and plays a huge role in glucose metabolism. Diabetes itself is a disease caused by an absolute or relative deficiency of insulin. Absolute deficiency means that insulin cannot be produced due to the destruction of pancreatic cells; relative deficiency means that although the amount of insulin is not lacking, its effect cannot be fully exerted, resulting in the same effect as insulin deficiency. Since the function of insulin is to lower blood glucose, insulin deficiency causes blood glucose to rise, which results in diabetes. Therefore, treating diabetes with insulin is, in fact, the most direct treatment. Theoretically, the side effects should also be minimal. Insulin is one of the treatment options for diabetic patients, not all of them may take insulin, some may not need insulin, some need insulin, but of course, for patients who take insulin, it is not impossible to withdraw it. If the person belongs to type 1 diabetes, it is necessary to take insulin, because the body produces an immune response, damage to the islet cells, almost dead, there is no more, this time must be played, do not play insulin blood sugar is high, is a lifelong replacement therapy, but not addiction, itself need only. For type 2 diabetic patients, the disease is longer, the destruction of islet cells is very serious, or have a serious disease, this time also need to fight. Some patients may need to fight for the rest of their lives, while others may not, for example, in acute complications, so it is not possible to make a generalization, but a case-by-case analysis. Early insulin can protect the function of the pancreas The cause of diabetes is closely related to the islet cells. Why is this person obese and prone to diabetes? First, the weight is particularly high, resulting in a particularly heavy burden on the islet cells. The islet cells are heavily burdened and work hard at first by speeding up, but over time, over time, they get diabetes. So, islet cells are important. What is the function of islet cells? The function of pancreatic beta cells is to produce, manufacture and secrete insulin, and if insulin fails, or if the pancreas fails, you will definitely get diabetes. type 2 diabetes generally declines significantly after 5-8 years, followed by chronic complications, so it is very important to protect the function of pancreatic islet cells. In some cases, the amount of insulin secreted is decreasing, and in some cases, the amount of insulin secreted is higher than normal, but the quality is not good, which also belongs to poor pancreatic function. No matter which way you look at it, protecting the islet cells is a very, very important key to treating diabetes.