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Diabetes Mellitus

Dr. Matt and Dr. Mike's Medical Podcast

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Type One Diabetes - What Happens When You Have Too Much Sugar in Your Blood?

When you have too much sugar in your blood for too long, do you know what happens? Well, you get these micro, micro vascular changes. Your body kind of makes these sugary molecules called advanced glaccilated end products, or age. And they can go into the micro andmacular system and cause their detrimental effects. So that can cause the blood vessels in your eyes to kind of grow crazy, like a, like a weed or a vine gone wild. All this blood vessels grow all over your retina. Oh, so worse vision. Soyou get renal disease too from it, yet, you renal disease.

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