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Diabetes explained: learn how insulin, type 1 and type 2 diabetes, and chronic complications affect blood sugar, kidneys, heart, nerves, and vision. This concise video breaks down the physiology of glucose metabolism and insulin action, clarifies the differences between type 1 (autoimmune insulin deficiency) and type 2 (insulin resistance plus impaired secretion), and maps how chronic hyperglycemia drives microvascular (retinopathy, neuropathy, nephropathy) and macrovascular (heart attack, stroke, peripheral vascular disease) damage. You’ll understand how carbohydrates become glucose, how insulin enables…
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