The brain is a mysterious thing. And when diabetes is thrown into the mix, there's even much mystery.

At Yale University, researchers have recently uncovered some answers to a brain-attached question for those in the Diabetes Community: Why don't we all feel low blood sugars?

Nethermost line: One size of it (hypoglycemia reaction) does non fit all.

Yep, that figures. While scientists are trying to answer these questions, there are also efforts afoot to provide an insider's view of what hypoglycemia feels like. There's a lot on the mind (hah!) with these topics lately, and nowadays we're taking a take a some tidings-makers.

Studying D-Brains

Published in the Journal of Clinical Investigating at the end of January, this NIH-funded study from Yale University looked at the brains of 42 individuals (16 living with T1D) and how insulin use impacts their low blood glucose responses.

In those without diabetes, a drop in BG stimulates the body to fix glucose and find food.

Merely those with T1D obviously don't have the indistinguishable responses.

MRI scans in that research copied that back to key regions of the brain – linked to reward, motive, and decision-making. Half of those with T1D had altered activity relating to attention.

This conferred many answers relating to "hypodermic syringe unknowingness" (when we can't feel Lows), that often increases over prison term.

"There is a progressive loss of coordinated nous response to devalued blood saccharify atomic number 3 you go on from healthy adult to aware and unaware," says Janice Hwang, M.D., Yal Assistant Professor of Medicate and direct investigator of this study. "The first areas in the brain to go are associated with regulating feeding behavior."

Absorbing, for dependable. But a moment depressing in that our diabetes brains are impacted this way.

Add in the research that's been published previously or so how diabetes messes with our nervousness and can actually cause our brains to become little awake… to the melodic phras of Alzheimer's, sometimes referred to as Type 3 diabetes.

Wellspring, that's just dandy, isn't it…? (see too: sarcasm portion of the brain)

Hopefully, this research and synonymous studies happening universal can eventually lead to treatment options that counter the D-Mental capacity effects. It'd represent a curiosity if someday (poor of a cure, that is) we could "cure" sodium thiosulfate unawareness to ensure that PWDs feel the important exemplary signs before dipping dangerously low.

That'd be a behemoth step in diabetes inquiry, sure enough.

Hypodermic syringe Model (!)

Of course, the other side of the mystery story coin here beyond the science of WHY our brains do what they do is:

What does it feel like to have a low blood dinero?

Many of us have had that question thrown our way from "sugar-normals" (who put on't exist with diabetes). At times, we've tried to explain in ernest when the question came from concerned parents operating theatre medical professionals trying to get a better grasp of our plight.

Last November at the Diabetes Professional Care 2017 conference in London, Novo Nordisk made a valliant effort to answer this question with their soh-called Hypo Hub, including an online resource portal and actual simulator designed to offer a first-hand experience of depression blood sugar symptoms. It used a Realistic Reality headset that offered "unique insight" regarding hypoglycaemia and how it affects PWDs. It's really an elevate from an earlier Sodium thiosulfate Simulator they were showing away six long time ago at the EASD group discussion in Berlin. Some who tried information technology in essence say the increased VR aspect is "beautiful trippy."

Information technology's hard to imagine of course that this could really recreate the heart-palpitant feeling of having a low. And of course not every patient's deficient symptoms are the same. (Your Sodium thiosulphate May Vary). But if the Virtual Reality absorption is capable to wreak some level of warm intellect to doctors and other non-PWDs, then go Hypo Hub! Now, if we could just make up a simulator for all the other icky aspects of living with diabetes…

What we'd wish to see is a full-fledged Brain Simulator that our doctors could use to really let a common sense of, "This is your mental capacity on diabetes."

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