Diabetes 101
I'm going to attempt to start at the beginning, i.e. what is diabetes, anyway?
There are three main flavours of diabetes:
type 1 (insulin-dependent, or “juvenile,” or T1D)
type 2 (non-insulin-dependent, or “adult-onset,” or T2D)
type 3 (gestational diabetes)
All of these are called "diabetes." Why? Because of their relation to the pancreas—the…