If you were born with 2 pancreas will you produce too much insulin?
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firstly, insulin is not produced in fixed quantities. and it is NOT regulated by pituitary gland. insulin is secreted by the beta cells of the pancreas and this is done by direct stimulation of glucose in blood. if the pancreas have normal functioning beta cells, there will not be excess insulin production.
388588
It's not that they work better together, it's just that you can't get a pancreas transplant without needing a kidney transplant as well.  The train of thought is that it is not worth all the antirejection meds and the surgery just to get off insulin shots, but it is if you are getting off insulin and dialysis.
1088888
You do have a greater risk of developing the disease than those who have no blood relatives with the disease.  Yes, there is a genetic component to Type Two diabetes.  You may be able to help reduce your risk by consuming a healthy diet.  Most experts believe that an overweight person is at increased risk of developing the disease, so you might be well advised to keep that under control, too.
604842
Type I involves the pancreas not producing insulin due to auto-immune and genetic problems. Type II is caused by the body not being able to use insulin right anymore due to bad lifestyle choices.
553662
Everyone is different. My son has type 1, I don't have diabetes. In my case, it would be the same as before I ate.
629509
I could personally benefit from a brand new pancreas identical to mine. I am a type 1 diabetic (my pancreas was attacked by my immune system). like anything else, therapeutic cloning in and of itself is not wrong. it could be used to treat/cure a variety of diseases. Things to think about: in Diabetics, whose to say the new pancreas will not be destroyed again? Trauma cases would be great. You lose your spleen to a car accident, and it gets replaced by an identical, disease free spleen. I am somewhat hesitant to say that I 100% fully agree with therapeutic cloning, but I'm not sure I can put my finger on why. I'd have to say about 75%-25% in favor.
1113188
Yes, it's called Double Diabetes and it's getting more common.  The diagnosis will remain type 1 however, but oral meds may need to be added.
397268
In some cases, obesity. Some cases it's just inherited. Depends on the type of Diabetes.
613378
When you eat, your stomach produces glucose that acts like an acid to break down the food, pass it into your blood and absorb it into the body tissues. Insulin packs the food into your body tissues and, at the same time, flushes the excess glucose out of your body. Insulin is made by the pancreas and diabetes occurs when the pancreas fails to produce enough insulin to do these two jobs. Therefore an excess of glucose also builds up in the blood and bercause it is acidic, it eats away at your body's blood vessels. It attacks the liver, kidneys, eye retinas and the toes causing kidney disease, blindness and sometimes requiring amputation of the feet. So, the second part of your question is correct: the cells cannot deliver energy without insulin but there is also a build up of glucose in the blood which attacks the blood vessels.
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No, I don't have it.  However, my grandmother does and she doesn't keep it controlled as well as she should so she has some complications.  My mother is a type II diabetic (non-insulin dependent.  Many people live healthy normal lives with diabetes as long as they watch what they eat and keep their blood sugars in a controlled range (they must check their blood glucose with the fingerstick blood test often!)!\nGood luck!
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Liv, in diabetes mellitus the beta cells of the pancreas don't 1) produce enough insulin, 2) produce any insulin or 3) produce a usable insulin.  Insulin regulates the levels of glucose in the blood.  If there is no insulin production, as in Type I, or little insulin production or insulin that cannot be used (such as with central obesity--fat is insulin resistant), as in Type II, then there is nothing to regulate and lower glucose levels in the blood.  A higher than normal level of glucose is called hyperglycemia.  That is why hyperglycemia is a symptom of IDDM Insulin dependent diabetes mellitus) and NIDDM (Non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus).  I tried to keep it simple.
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No.\n\nType 1 diabetes is an auto-immune disease, like some kinds of arthritis or lupus. It requires an inherited susceptibility (traced to certain kinds of HLA antigens), and a trigger. the trigger is usually infection from any of several things, commonly viruses. German measles is one, as are several members of the Coxsackie virus family. During such an infection, the immune system 'learns' to attack cells with certain surface markers, and beta cells have such markers. At least that's the current best idea of what ususally happens. The beta cells get killed (having the wrong markers) and that ends your internal insulin production. Food has nothing to do with it. \n\nType 2 diabetes is more complex. It is strongly inherited, but is also influenced by environment. Those carrying more weight than they should, and the elderly, are more likely to get it. Hence its older names: obesity-related and adult-onset diabetes. It has recently been discovered that fat tissue, especially fat tissue around the abdominal organs (but not on thighs or hips or chins or ...) produce several hormones, just like the endocrine glands. Some of those hormones affect other cells, and one of them makes them  more resistant to insulin. That is, when insulin is present, it's harder for those cells to take up glucose from the blood. This is insulin resistance and it's at the heart of Type 2 diabetes. Some can be treated with diet, exercise, and supervision; some require all that and oral medications as well; some require insulin, perhaps in addition to an oral medication. \n\nObiously, it's not only sugar which can cause fat like this. Overeating anything, perhaps especially fats, can cause weight gain. Ther's nothing special about weight gain from sugar as opposed to weight from the fat in meats. \nAnyone who eats enough to become a little thick here and there has increased their chance of getting Type 2. Lack of exercise seems to be significant as well. So, whether it's sugar or anything else that you eat too much of, you can increase your chance of getting Type 2. \n\nThe only direct effect of sugar is a speculative one. In the extreme pure sugar (or sugar in solution, like a soft drink) will go into the bloodstream very quickly. This will cause a rapid rise in blood glucose level, and perhaps to a high spike in that level. There is some speculation that too many cases of such rapid spikes causes damage to beta cells in the pancreas or to other cells, in such a way as to increase the chance of developing Type 2 diabetes. Thus far, there only suspicions along this line as an experimental study to test this prediction would be difficult to design and carry out. Not to mention expensive. No drug company will finance such a study as there is no prospect of a salable drug resulting. \n\nIt's probably best to avoid 'empty calories' in any case. The classic examples are soft drinks which are basically nothing but flavored sugar water. Check the nutrient label the next time you see a soft drink bottle.
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It's bad, but the value of 'bad' varies a good bit depending on several things. \n\nType 2 is characterized by insulin resistance, which means that about 2/3 of body cells, the ones that require insulin to absorb glucose from the blood, stop listening to the glucose. More or less. And, more or less, stop absorbing glucose from the blood. This is a problem since glucose is the primary fuel for cellular operations, and cells which don't get any go into starvation mode, regardless of how much you eat. Not good. \n\nIt's not so simple since the degree of insulin resistance can vary quite a lot. Some Type 2s don;t have much of a problem, and it may be that losing weight (not necessarily a lot), exercise, and diet may convince those cells to listen to the insulin again. You might be one of these. Others need pills of one kind or another, and for still others the pills don't work or eventually stop working. Some Type 2s end up on insulin. \n\nIt's much easier to find out what kind of Type 2 you are, than to explain why you're that kind. In fact, we're not very clear on exactly why anyone becomes a Type 2, though heredity and overweight (especially in the abdomen -- thunder thighs are less important) clearly is important. Exercise (or probably lack of it) seems pretty clearly to be a contributor as well. \n\n==============\nhow bad, then?\n\nSo, your question isn't really well put. It should be something like, how bad is my kind of Type 2 or how bad is Uncle Fred's kind of Type 2. The answer might be quite different. \n\nWhatever kind of Type 2 you might have, diet (keep the junk food down, don't eat too much, and avoid the empty calories (eg, regular soda which is essentially flavored sugar water)), exercise (moderate amounts seem to be enough -- a brisk walk for 45 minutes two or three times a week), weight loss (not necessarily a lot -- 10% or the extra might be enough, especially if it comes from around the abdominal organs), are your first recourse. Get a blood glucose monitor (the private label ones at Sam's Club/Walmart seem to be the least expensive), and use it to get an idea of what your blood glucose level does in response to food, exercise, ... And find and keep a good doctor who is willing and able to cope with the annoyance (and uncurability) of diabetes to keep you current with interpretation and (hopefully) the latest medical news. Maybe a Certified Diabetes Educator (CDE), too; often a nurse, but in any case, one with special knowledge, experience, and training in diabetes.
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Type  II there is such a thing as diet controlled diabetes. This depends upon how many cells in your pancreas are still functioning. It does not make the pancreas grow new cells and provide adequate insulin forrever. What diet and exercise do is make you become smaller with weight loss and also you are not putting more food in you than your pancreas can handle. When you lose weight, your system doesn't require as much insulin. However, the results of losing weight are not guaranteed. See your doctor to be sure. It couldn't hurt to diet and exercise.
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The statistics on developing diabetes are if you have one parent with diabetes the children have a 50% risk of developing diabetes within their lifetime.  If both parents are diabetic, they have a 100% risk of developing diabetes within their lifetime.  This doesn't mean you can't hold it at bay.  A well balanced meal plan,  good exercise program, and being diligent with annual checkups will help keep diabetes from developing, and/or reduce its devastating effects.  Have you had yourself checked for diabetes yet?  Diabetes does have serious effects on kidneys.  You can go to the ADA website for more information concerning diabetes.  www.diabetes.org.  Good luck.
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Type II diabetes: possibly if you eat so much that is causes you to become over weight.\nType I diabetes: ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!  Type I diabetes is caused by the Beta cells in the Islets of Langerhans dying or not being able to produce insulin as a result of cellular damage or from them being attacked by the body's own immune system, it has absolutely nothing to do with diet and almost all to do with heredity and genetics.
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there are two types, type 1 and type 2. type one is a defect with your pancreas, which is usually diganosed before puberty.  there is no way to prevent type 1.  type 2 is completely preventable.  type 2 is the most common, something like 98% of the cases, and this is caused by being overweight.  there has been a strong link, where if it runs in your family, you are more suseptible to it.  the best way to prevent this is to stay close to your ideal body weight.  this can be calculated by the equation:\nFor males:\nIdeal body weight= 50 + (2.3 x Height in inches over 5ft)\nfor females:\nIBW= 45.5 + (2.3 x Height in inches over 5ft)\n\nThese give your weight in kilograms, to convert to pounds, multiply by 2.2\n\nfor example if your a woman 5'5'' the equation would be:\nIBW= 45.5 + (2.3 x 5) = 57 kg x 2.2 = 125.4 lbs.\n\nIf you stay close to your ideal body weight, you have almost no chance of developing type 2 diabetes.  For type 2 diabetes, it all has to do with your weight, not what you eat.\n\nThe reason why you don't want type 2 diabetes if because there are MANY complications associated with it, including cataracts, blindness, heart disease and amputations, just to name a small few.\n\nIf you are overweight, find a great support group and lose weight the old-fashioned way, diet and exercise.  Diets don't work, changing your lifestyle works.  There is always hope for losing weight, the Dr. Phil weightloss book is really good.