Hi guys, in this video we're going to talk about why diabetics usually need additional medication over time.

Okay, first of all, what is diabetes?

It's a problem with high sugar, okay?

So the body is high sugar from eating a lot of carbohydrates.

So the purpose of the medication is to lower the blood sugar, so it removes the sugar.

But diabetes medication does not lower the body sugar only the blood sugar.

So the sugar in your body is still there, it's just not in the blood.

So the medication keeps cramming and stuffing this sugar in different places.

It's very similar to in your house if you have dirty dishes and you don't wash them.

You keep sticking them underneath the cupboard, in the pantry, in the suitcase,

until finally everything starts becoming a problem.

And usually the medication gets the sugar out and it's converted into fat.

So the fat cells start getting bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger.

They start spreading into the liver around the organs and the pancreas and the brain,

excessive fat around the kidneys and many other organs.

So diabetes type 2 is a diet problem, okay?

And that's why taking drugs will never fix it because it's a diet problem.

We don't want to add more carbohydrate.

So the medication basically hides the real problem, continues the problem.

So eventually you're going to have more complications with the high sugar

and you're going to need more powerful medication to keep the blood sugar down, more insulin, for example.

And then you're going to have side effects from the medication

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