Type 2 diabetes is a stupid name. How about hyperinsulinemia?

Hyperinsulinemia got me in trouble

I wrote an article about type 2 diabetes a few years ago. In it, I eventually dropped the “type 2” when I mentioned it for brevity. This caused someone to send me an email complaining that I mischaracterized diabetes since a type 1 diabetic can’t control their disease with anything other than insulin.

She was right.

Type 2 diabetes is horribly named – and it’s not accurate at all.

In Diabetes (type 1 – the original) a person’s body is no longer able to make insulin. Their immune system attacks the cells that make insulin in their pancreas, destroying their body’s ability to make insulin. This means they need to inject insulin to be able to use glucose in their cells.

Insulin overload

Type 2 diabetes is a disease of too much insulin.

Type 2 diabetes is caused by a diet high in carbohydrates over a long period of time. Over a long time (typically decades) of high insulin levels from this diet, the cells become less sensitive to insulin. The popular “low-fat” diet is a high carbohydrate diet.

This insulin resistance leads to minute elevations of blood sugar, causing the pancreas to secrete more insulin. The blood insulin levels continue to rise over time, leading to many adverse effects, like high blood pressure, and cardiovascular disease.

As long as the blood sugar levels don’t rise too much this will be called “pre-diabetes.”

Eventually, the pancreas will wear itself out and be unable to increase insulin levels any further, and blood sugar will rise, producing type 2 diabetes.

So diabetes (type one) is an absence of insulin – causing illness and death.

Hyperinsulinemia just isn’t as catchy.

The cause of type 2 diabetes is insulin resistance – too much insulin – which causes illness, obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure and death.

Two type one diabetes and type two are very different things. But mainstream treatment is very similar for both. Increase insulin.

With type two diabetes, treatment is typically drugs instead of injections, but it’s actually insanity. We’re treating the symptoms of type 2 diabetes (elevated blood sugar) instead of the cause (high insulin levels).

This means it will be progressive and provide many customers for the drug industry over time.

A better name for type 2 diabetes? How about Hyperinsulinemia? Insulin overload? Chubby insulin syndrome?

No matter the name, you can’t address the cause of type 2 diabetes without lowering insulin levels. That’s the ticket back to health.

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