Diabetes does not generally cause metabolic slowing.
Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disease characterized by chronic hyperglycemia caused by a variety of etiological factors. Some patients may have no obvious clinical manifestations, while some may have a series of typical diabetic symptoms such as polydipsia, polyphagia, polyuria, and weight loss, which are not directly related to metabolic slowing.
Metabolic slowdown should be considered to be caused by physiological factors such as lack of physical labor or prolonged sedentary lifestyle, insufficient food intake due to frequent dieting, or diseases such as hypothyroidism.
Diabetic patients with slow metabolism can go to the hospital after eliminating physiological factors, and ask the doctor to make a judgment to clarify the cause of the disease.