Your Diabetes Has Been Developing For Years

"Based on the research and information I have on January 06, the following makes sense to me," Harlan Jacobsen Copyright © 2005

Some have held that fat is involved in about 95% of the type 2 diabetics.

My view is that body fat is merely a symptom, if you have insulin resistance in development from high insulin levels, then the fat itself becomes the insulin resistance maker and adds new resistance fatty acids to the problem. So once underway fat perpetuates the problem by contributing greatly to furthering the expanding of the insulin resistance.

The question is what starts the resistance and how do you explain a thin (no body fat) person having diabetes 2. (about 5% or less of type 2 diabetics.)

The inherited "store fat during the summer season" to survive the sparse food winter season is an instinctive gene inherited from our caveman ancestors.

If you have this gene and most do, some families more than others, then likely your body every spring and summer ups your fat storing hormone, Insulin, automatically, totally unbeknown to you.

Let's say it raises it 20% above normal, for four months every summer. This is instinctive carry over to help you put on fat in the summer time, and help you get thru the winter. Only those that had this extra stored fat survived to have babies in the spring.

You, never the less very likely won't put on fat if you are an active young person despite the high insulin making it easier to do so. You won't even know you are running high insulin levels unless you go on an eating binge.

However, the higher insulin level for four months will make your body cells start to develop a resistance to Insulin.

Let's say that it ups your insulin resistance 2% a year. In addition lets say from you eating a high sugar diet you raise your insulin another 2%. At the end of the summer season your pancreas has to make an additional 4% more insulin to control blood sugar because of the rise. Keep in mind the person also can contribute to insulin resistance thru the usual high sugar diet etc that up until now you likely thought were the sole reason for insulin resistance. development.

After 40 years of this, the average persons pancreas must now put out four times the normal insulin as a result of this 40 years of a slight rise each year.

The person is now aging and slowing down and easily puts on weight with these high insulin levels year around.

The addition of a mass of body fat raises the insulin requirement now to more than the pancreas can compensate for and you have diabetes. Blood sugar no longer controlled.

The addition of large amounts of body fat was what put the insulin requirement level needed over the line of capacity to handle it.

Let's say we have a person that has 20 years of slight rises in insulin resistance from the "store fat summer gene" and corresponding natural rise in Insulin to control blood g a high sugar diet year around.

After 20 years let's say the insulin requirement with this annual 4% rise in insulin resistance now has risen to twice normal. The pancreas can normally still handle that.

Let's say this 40 year old person along the way had a baby over 9 pounds. (one of the factors that they show as making it more likely you will develop diabetes.)

That birth somehow affected the pancreas so that now it will only go to double the normal insulin production.

Also let's say this person has had some high stress periods, like six months of stress from the break up of a major relationship, death of a family member etc. This stress can also raise insulin levels for a period of time adding more insulin resistance.
Eating a high sugar diet contributes to high insulin levels over the years that feeds insulin resistance. No two people have had the same high insulin history so no two arrive at 40 years with the same situation.

Now the insulin resistance has risen to the point that the two times normal insulin production, the max this pancreas is capable of, due to damage from the birth of a nine pound baby, a virus, etc etc it is not enough to control the blood sugar.  Men Can have other pancreas problems. This is just an illustrative sample

Here you have a diabetic that is not fat, is not over 50 and does not meet the usual physical criteria to have diabetes. The basic cause of accumulating rises in insulin resistance is still the controlling factor.

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