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What is Type 1 diabetes?

Type 1 diabetes is not caused by an unhealthy diet or poor lifestyle choices, but rather it is an autoimmune condition.

This means your immune system attacks itself instead of protecting your body from disease.

Your body attacks the cells in your pancreas responsible for making insulin, meaning you are unable to produce any of this essential hormone.

While you can live without insulin, it is responsible for glucose (sugar) in our blood entering our cells and fuelling our bodies.

Youre still able to break down carbohydrates and turn it into glucose but no insulin means the glucose cant get into your cells, causing a buildup of glucose in your bloodstream.

If left for a long period of time, high glucose levels in your blood can cause complications with your heart, eyes, feet, and kidneys.

Only eight percent of adults who have diabetes have Type 1, so its much less common than Type 2.

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The symptoms for both types of diabetes are the same, but it is the speed in which they happen that is different.

With Type 1 diabetes, the symptoms pop up more quickly, so it may be easier to spot and get a diagnosis.

Type 2 symptoms might be less noticeable, since they appear more slowly.

There are more ways to manage Type 2 than Type 1.

Since Type 2 is connected to your health and lifestyle, you are able to exercise and change your diet in order to improve blood sugar levels without medication.

You cannot cure diabetes.

Type 1 is incurable, but research is continuing in the hope to find one.

Type 2 cannot be cured either, but a lot of people are able to get to a stable and normal blood sugar levels without medication and keep it there.

Even if you hold this healthy level, you arent cured- diabetes is an ongoing disease.

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