Diabetes Type 2 — A Deeper Perspective

Your cells have stopped listening. The insulin is there — your pancreas is producing it, even in excess — but the message no longer gets through. It's as if you were speaking into a room full of people and no one turns around. The door isn't locked, the way it is in type 1. The door is open. But no one walks through it.

Medically, this is called insulin resistance: the cells no longer respond to the signal telling them to absorb sugar and convert it into energy. The sugar backs up in the blood, the body releases even more insulin, the cells grow even more numb — a cycle that reinforces itself.