Opinion: Long Term Insulin Injections Worsen Type 2 Diabetes, By Mukaila Kareem
With chronic physical inactivity and excessive feeding, the muscle cells have inherent ability to “resist” the action of insulin and shut off glucose entrance, leaving excessive amounts of both insulin and glucose in the blood stream – a condition called insulin resistance. So, the road to diabetes starts with the muscle’s refusal to pick up glucose in the blood stream, leaving dangerous levels of glucose in the blood stream.
The lack of specificity about definition of type 2 diabetes implies that the use of insulin is inevitable when in fact it’s not. I have been a physiotherapist for just over 30 years, and I know a lot of pharmacists, both as friends and colleagues, and they would often explain the function or “mechanism of action” of a particular drug based on its “target cell or organ”. This clarity is not demonstrated to the general public as far as type 2 diabetes is concerned.
In fact, medical evidence shows that skeletal muscle contributes 70 to 80 per cent of total glucose clearance from the blood stream, with the help of insulin, following feeding. Better still, skeletal muscle has the ability to pick up glucose without the assistance of insulin during physical activity through muscular contractions. Therefore, the skeletal muscle is the target organ when it comes to insulin and major glucose clearance from the blood stream.
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