Type 2 diabetes is a condition in which individuals face trouble in regulating and using glucose in their bodies, causing the glucose to over-accumulate. Type 2 diabetes thus causes pancreatic cells to produce significant excess insulin, which then causes blood sugar to rise as the pancreas tries to keep up with the large amount of extra insulin. . This energy is known as ATP, the universal currency of our cells. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 38 million Americans suffer from diabetes, out of which a significant 90% (34.2 million) struggle with Type 2 Diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is a truly terrible threat to the health of people, in both our society and societies around the globe. It first develops in younger adults, but its effects exhibit a more aggressive impact on the elderly. I believe that how our society can become more aware of the threat of Type 2 diabetes is to develop healthy eating habits and monitor one’s physical health early on to prevent diabetes from compounding.
Healthy eating habits and exercise are crucial to avoiding Type 2 diabetes. Prediabetes leads to developing Type 2 diabetes. Once Type 2 diabetes is contracted, it causes irreversible damage to the nerves, body organs, and blood vessels. It is therefore imperative for someone with prediabetes to take the necessary actions to prevent its transition Type 2 diabetes. One of my suggestions to reduce the likelihood of Type 2 diabetes is to consume healthy sustenance, with moderate protein content. Although proteins are vital in ensuring the normal growth and development of young individuals, allowing the body to repair and produce new cells, too much high-protein, fibrous sustenance can worsen conditions for diabetics. This is because they also contain carbohydrates and fats. Instead, the more sensible food that one should consume to prevent diabetes from worsening is to have a DNA-based diet that resembles their genetic profile. In the MedicalNewsToday article, “A ‘DNA diet’ may help reduce type 2 diabetes risk, new study argues,” recent research suggests that a diet suitable to one’s genome could play a pivotal role in maintaining proper blood sugar levels and decreasing the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes for high-risk individuals. The research team responsible for testing this hypothesis divided their participants into three groups: a control, a research (intervention group), and an exploratory group. Experimental findings revealed that by 26 weeks of the experiment, people who followed a diet based on their DNA profile displayed significant improvements in their blood sugar levels, in comparison to people who did not receive a special diet. This novel research, in my opinion, illuminates that DNA is integral in directing the synthesis of important proteins. According to the ScienceDaily.com article, “Gene function that protects against Type 2 diabetes,’’ one gene in particular, SLC30A8, encodes a protein that carries zinc, which is a trace element in humans. Such a protein is essential for ensuring that insulin shares a complementary shape to the beta-cells of the pancreas, to ensure its proper function.
A proto-oncogene, known as RELA, contains members that regulate apoptosis, immune responses, and oncogenic processes. By regulating important mechanisms such as apoptosis, which prevents enzymes from leaking contents that damage nearby cells, it is therefore important for one’s nervous system and normal morphogenesis of limbs including human hands and feet. It also regulates oncogenic processes, to prevent developments of certain types of cancer that stem from diabetes, it seems to me that the usefulness of nucleic acids in warring against diabetes tends not to be spoken of much. I believe this should thus be more concentrated on for its usefulness against diabetes by the scientific community. Another way that people at risk of diabetes can avoid Type 2 diabetes is through exercise. Physical exercise enables muscle cells to utilize insulin and glucose more efficiently and reduces the sensitivity of muscle cells to insulin, better regulating blood glucose levels. Performing exercise daily benefits one’s glycemic control, and normalizes hyperfiltration and hyperfusion.
Therefore, Type 2 diabetes is a threat to the health of many people in society, developing in young individuals and worsening as their ages progress. Above all else, Type 2 diabetes is something that can be prevented, and absolutely must be, before it institutes irreversible damage to an individual. In my view, the most effective ways to avoid Type 2 diabetes is to establish a diet tailored to one’s genetic profile, for their DNA to synthesize beneficial proteins that protect them against Type 2 diabetes, and to exercise daily to lower the muscle cell’s sensitivity to insulin, thereby better-regulating blood glucose levels in the body.
