The sugar way

The body is amazing. Complex. Hard to understand. It haves too many functions, cells, and not even talk about the biological molecules. One thing that calls me too much the attention, it´s one of these elementary elements for life, it´s a simple carbohydrate, compound about six carbons, twelve hydrogens, and six oxygen atoms, and makes that our entire body works. I´m talking about the glucose, and especially about its pathway.

If a person has their normal blood levels of glucose, there is no problem. A problem could appear when there are complications in the production of a hormone that helps glucose enter our cells to be used as energy: the Insulin.

This hormone it's produced by the pancreas, located at the top of the abdomen, back of the stomach and it has a size of fifteen centimeters. The people that have a problem with Insuline it´s because the pancreas does not produce insulin or because it doesn´t produce enough. These conditions are diseases and answer to the name diabetes.

There mainly are three types of diabetes:

- Diabetes Type 1: the body doesn´t produce insulin because the immunologic cells destroyed the pancreas cells that produced it. The people that haves it need to use insulin every day to survive.

- Diabetes Type 2: the body doesn´t use insulin properly or doesn´t produce enough

- Gestational Diabetes

The people with diabetes have more risk to have heart, kidneys and dental diseases, cerebrovascular accidents, eye and feet problems and, nerve injuries.

The facts that make me take more attention are these many risks produced by the fact that one type of molecule can´t enter the cells to give energy to the whole body. There are too, many consequences if other types of molecules can´t enter to determinate cells, but I think this one it´s the more important of all because what we would be if we don´t have a material body to live in?