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MORE ABOUT THE INSULIN-DEPENDANT DIABETES!
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 * Here are some extra informations about Type 1 Diabetes that is worth knowing about.

Diabetes, basically, causes microvascular complications in our body. This just means that th blood vessels clog up, leading to many organ's damage such as eyes, toes, feet, etc. Specifically, eye damage will slowly lead to blurry vision then to pure blindness. At this state, an eye doctor (ophthalmologist) is needed.

If you have neuropathy, you will experience nerve damage, fiber breakdown.sensitive skin, leg cramps, numbness or tingling in toes or feet. Neuropathy will seriously affect the kidney, as shown on the picture. Observe how protein leaks out of Kidney, with all the nutrient going to waste in the urine. Kidney uses nephrons that filter toxic materials that might circulate in the body. 80% of nephrons is damaged while illness happens.

Diabetes might be cured with stem cell therapy; it requires the patients stem cells, which is then stimulated into the patient's beta cells and insulin, and injected. Or, they can create straight the liver or kidney cells that will produce the insulin for the body, maybe even curing the whole problem. However, this has not had the breakthrough yet by the scientists, and may have their own disadvantages. There is another type of diabetes, which is the Diabetes Type 2; also known as the adult diabetes. This kind of diabetes usually occur to aged people who is over 40. Type 1 and 2 both has insulin problems. Type 2 diabetes is not insulin dependent, || ([|IMAGE CITATION]) ||

What has stem cell therapy has to do with the diabetes in the 21st century?