- Diabetes.. Why is it linked to weight loss?
Diabetes is a disease that leads to high blood sugar levels. When diagnosed late, the blood sugar rises to a significant degree, and this is accompanied by a significant decrease in the person’s weight. What is the reason behind this?
When a patient is diagnosed with diabetes, the doctor controls the blood sugar level through diet, exercise, and treatment. However, if the diagnosis is delayed, the blood sugar level rises to significant levels that lead to it being excreted in the urine. This leads to the patient feeling thirsty and frequent trips to the bathroom.
Normally, the kidneys only purify the blood of toxins, and during this process they reabsorb sugar in the kidneys so that it is not excreted in the urine, but when blood sugar rises to a large degree, it begins to appear in the urine. The reason for high blood sugar is the inability of the hormone insulin to introduce glucose into the body’s cells to benefit from it, or the insufficiency of insulin itself. This leads to the body burning its fat and muscles to obtain energy, as the body cannot benefit from the glucose that enters the body through food. This weight loss is rapid and unintentional on the part of the person, and is accompanied by a constant feeling of hunger, and has negative effects because it includes a decline in muscle mass in the body that it burns to obtain energy, which leads to weakness. So if you feel hungry all the time and your weight decreases quickly, and you feel very thirsty and go to urinate frequently, you should see a doctor.
