Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disease characterized by high blood glucose levels, decreased insulin production, and/or insulin resistance. Insulin is important in permitting glucose to be absorbed by the cells of the body from the blood stream. There are two types of diabetes, type 1 and type 2, both of which involve deficient transporting abilities of glucose into cells, but via differing mechanisms. Type 1 diabetes is caused by an insulin deficiency. It is an autoimmune disease that leads to self-eradication of the pancreatic beta-cells that are responsible for insulin secretion. Type 2 diabetes involves disrupted absorption of insulin as a result of insulin resistant cell receptors. Though the insulin ligand is present, receptor cells
