Human Diseases Redefined

© 2008/2010:Dr. V.M.Palaniappan

60. Juvenile Diabetes (Diabetes Mellitus Type I)

This is also called Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, type I, and this can occur in adults as well.

If a person refrains from consuming carbohydrates and sugars, the brain gradually withdraws the secretion of insulin. If this happens, the person gets type-2 diabetes mellitus, requiring the intake of insulin tablets. In brief, this is known as non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM). In practise, these people are normally given with insulin tablets only.

However, if the situation worsens, doctors tend to prescribe even the type-1 patients insulin injections, as if they are insulin-dependent cases.

On the other hand, if the person happens to take far too much of sugar frequently, and also on a daily basis, he/she would develop this insulin-dependent diabetes.
With optimum sugar/carbohydrate consumption, optimum insulin secretes.

With excessive sugar/carbohydrate intake, in order to digest all of it, excessive insulin secretes.

If such excesses go beyond the body’s tolerance limit, i.e., the threshold point, then, the brain, with a view to saving the person from undesirable collapse, suddenly and totally withdraws the secretion of insulin altogether.

This situation results in creating a need for insulin injections for digesting subsequent sugar/ carbohydrate consumptions. Thus, the patient develops a dependency for insulin from external sources.

This happens in a manner identical to the development of hypothyroidism, leukaemia, etc., in that the result due to the production of self-destructing auto-antibodies by the brain. It is an auto-immune disease.

See Diabetes Mellitus, Types I & II.