Not Diabetes
High level of glucose in the blood
is a distinctive sign of type 2 diabetes, (diabetes is a difficult to treat
disorder characterized by poor body’s ability to utilize glucose leading to high
level of glucose in the blood). However, there is at least one situation, where
high level of glucose in the blood could be explained as body’s protective
measure.
In some cases, when
lungs do not work well, they they do not provide adequate level of oxygenation
of the blood. In such cases, the body should compensate with elevated level of
oxygen in the blood. This compensation could work as follows.
As the blood moves
through the blood circulation system, oxygen is consumed at different speeds at
different places and this leads to uneven distribution of the oxygen in the
blood through the body. Low level of oxygen is some places of the body should
lead to diminished activity in corresponding organs. The body should respond
with higher speed of blood circulation (higher heartbeat) and eventually with
higher level of oxygen in the blood.
That, in turn, should bring another
problem: high level of oxygen in the
blood, should lead to some degree of damage in other places of the body. Oxygen
in the blood is dangerous even in its “captured” form, it could lead to “burning”
of tissues, when it is not consumed promptly.
Now, the body needs to
adjust its functioning to minimize such damage. The natural way to do that
would be to increase some not dangerous and easily controlled local “activity” to
use-up dangerous excess of oxygen. To support this “activity” the body has to
increase the level of glucose in the blood.
The body does amazing perpetual
adjustments of its functioning, and it is plausible to assume, that it uses this
kind of adjustment also.
As a result, we should
observe combination of elevated level of oxygen together with elevated level of
glucose in bodies having lungs with diminished oxygen absorption capacity. This
is exactly, what is observed often.
If this theory is true,
in some group of cases, then improvement of lung capacity to oxygenate the
blood should lead to reduction of the level of glucose and the level of oxygen in
the blood.
Hence, these cases are body’s
adjustment to problems in lungs, and should be treated accordingly.
Alexander Liss 2/24/2021