In the past, type 2 diabetes was mainly concentrated in people over the age of 50, and its onset was caused by the accumulation of sugar and rising blood sugar as the body’s metabolic function declined and the body’s ability to break down sugar was restricted. Nowadays, the age of diabetes is getting younger, and there are even some cases of juvenile diabetes. Young people’s body metabolic function is generally not too poor, what exactly affects their sugar metabolic function?
In China, 1 in 10 adults has diabetes The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that there are about 110 million people with diabetes in China, or about 1 in 10 of all Chinese adults. 150 million people.
The main cause of this phenomenon is actually obesity. As early as 2012, Zhu Huilian, director of the Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, participated in a national health survey, the results showed that: BMI as the standard, the national overweight obesity rate is 41.22%; but body fat as the standard, the obesity rate increased to 56.93%; and waist circumference as the standard, the obesity rate is as high as 54.1%. It can be seen that obesity and diabetes are closely related, so how does obesity cause diabetes?
Obese people need to know the “friend” – macrophages Macrophages are a kind of immune cells in everyone’s body, it is the main member of the body to resist viral invasion. But obesity will lead to an increase in the number of macrophages, the key point is that macrophages can produce inflammatory factors, which means that as obesity increases, more and more macrophages in the body can make people more likely to cause an inflammatory response, the important point is that the inflammatory response will promote insulin resistance.
Thus, let’s summarize the process: severe obesity – increased macrophages – inflammatory response – insulin resistance – diabetes. -diabetes. It is not difficult to imagine that the root cause of this type of diabetes is obesity, if this source is solved will it cure diabetes? For this question, there are already practices and answers in reality.
According to a report in the Chinese Journal of Diabetes, the results of international surgical treatment of type 2 diabetic patients with BMI between 30-35 showed that 80% of the patients had normal blood glucose and a significant decrease in inflammatory factors within 5 years, during which they were not treated with other drugs. This shows the feasibility of addressing obesity as a treatment for diabetes.
The surgery plays a major role in the weight loss process of obese type 2 diabetic patients. The surgery establishes a small gastric sac in the body and reconstructs the digestive tract, which, on the one hand, limits the amount of food and reduces the amount of nutrients absorbed by the body, and on the other hand, reduces the absorption of sugar and effectively reduces the pressure of glucose metabolism in diabetic patients.
There are many factors that cause diabetes, some people are born with genetic defects that lead to the lack of insulin secretion function in the body, the current medical technology has not yet reached the ability to repair the insulin-secreting organism, only through lifelong medication and insulin injections to stabilize blood sugar.
The insulin secretion function of obese type 2 diabetic patients has not been lost yet, but the function is affected by long-term insulin resistance, so they can choose weight loss metabolic surgery to change this physical condition and avoid the dilemma of taking medication for life.