Diabetes Mellitus Type II (Insulin Resistant)
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Overview
Type II Diabetes Mellitus (DM2) was formerly referred to as Adult-Onset Diabetes because its insidious onset was usually seen in adults. However, with the current lifestyle and diet seen in today's youth, DM2 is more and more being seen in children in the USA as well.In DM2, the pancreas produces adequate (or even elevated) levels of insulin, but cell receptors for insulin appear to have become insensitive to insulin, resulting in derangement of glucose metabolism.
While diet and exercise play an important role in both the cause and treatment of DM2, conventional medicine relies heavily on the use of drugs to treat DM2. Hypothyroid conditions have also been strongly associated with DM2, and treatment of underlying hypothyroidism has been found to be very effective in addressing DM2 and reducing associated diseases [Starr2005].
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References
Unless specifically noted above, references used in the construction of this web page include the following:[FDM] Lecture notes from Functional Medicine University.
[SCNM] Lecture notes from Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine.
[UT] Lecture notes from the University of Tennessee graduate programs in Chemistry and Biochemistry.
[Eaton1954] Eaton CD. Co-existence of hypothyroidism with diabetes mellitus. Journal Michigan Medical Society. 53:1101 (1954). Cited by [Starr2005].
[Starr2005] Mark Starr. Hypothyroidism Type 2: The Epidemic. Columbia, MO: Mark Starr Trust (2005).
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