Patient was educated on insulin resistance as follows:
- Insulin resistance is a condition in which muscle, fat, and liver cells do not respond properly to insulin and thus cannot easily pick up glucose from the blood.
- This leads to increased blood glucose levels in the body.
- Since the body is not responding to the usual level of insulin, a higher level of insulin is needed to meet the metabolic demand.
- The beta cells in the pancreas try to keep up with this increased demand for insulin and so, produce more insulin.
- Over time, the muscle and liver cells do not respond to this increased level of insulin too, and the demand for insulin secretion further increases, thereby, setting a complex cycle of ever increasing demand for higher insulin levels.
- Over a period, the beta cells fail to produce the insulin needed and this results in Type 2 diabetes.