What is Type 2 Diabetes?

Donna, any idea? Type 2 diabetes? I can help you out. I mean, it's important to understand the difference between the two. Type 1, I assume you've already discussed, but type 2, we have, this insulin resistance where there is a production of insulin initially, but the cells are resistant to the absorption of the insulin. And then we tend to get these raised blood glucose levels as well as the insulin which is not functioning appropriately. And their management is a little bit different to a type 1 and diet can also specifically play a major role in the beginning, especially in the initial first phases of diagnosis because they can turn things around in a lot of ways with weight loss or with, you know, sort of specific diets to manage their glucose levels. So diet could play quite a big role and reducing the glucose level intake from food response can also help manage their glucose levels as well. But I think you can carry on doctor. So type 2 diabetes predominantly differs from type 1 diabetes with the fact that the issue is not with production of insulin, the issue is with insulin not getting into the cells and in our language we call it insulin resistance, which means that the body, the pancreas would produce insulin, but it would not be able to be effective into the organs. So a lot of treatment is designed around making lifestyle changes to minimize the insulin resistance, but essentially reflecting to either weight loss or taking tablets or injections to minimize that resistance. One of the tablets we commonly use is called metformin. And I think you alluded to GLP-1, which is one of the medications, which is designed to reduce the amount of insulin resistance by suppressing appetite and also by reducing the amount of overall insulin resistance and these therapies are licensed to be used in type 2 diabetes.