To understand the break through that could change diabetes mellitus and possibly bring an end to the disease, we need to understand what diabetes mellitus is. The disease known simply as diabetes, occurs in two instances, in the first instance the diabetes cause the human body to reject insulin produced to bring down high blood sugar levels. In the second instance the human body simply does not produce enough insulin to bring the high blood sugar levels down.

The second instance is sometimes more fatal than the first, because with the second instance failure to control the high blood sugar level can cause damage to other organs of the body, or people whose high blood sugar level is not controlled can end up in a coma. There is doubt that diabetes could be fatal disease, so to further continue our look at diabetes, we will look at the possible origin of the disease.

The origin of diabetes is not really known, there are many speculations to how the disease originated, there are even theories that suggest the disease may have developed 12000 years ago when temperatures dropped by 10 degrees Fahrenheit, now the speculation continues that our ancestors may have used the high blood sugar levels to prevent from freezing to death.

Other suggestions and theories suggest that diabetes is a genetic disease that gets passed down from generation to generation, in certain places this theory could be proven like in our family where each eldest born child in the last 50 years at least, got diagnosed with diabetes. Some of us are fortunate enough to have escaped the gene-curse. One fact however is that the food you eat, stress levels and the amount of exercise you do also plays a role in whether or not you will get diabetes.

So what is done to control the high blood sugar levels, well diabetics whose bodies do not produce the insulin to control the high blood sugar levels are generally put on special diets to control the amount of sugar and glucose they consume. These patients also receive insulin with which they need to inject themselves so that the high blood sugar levels stay under control. In the case of the diabetics whose bodies that produce the rejecting insulin, they normally receive tablets to control the high blood sugar levels.

Now what does the future hold for diabetics ? Well a recent technological break through has delivered an artificial pancreas, which will control the amount of insulin required for a diabetic to control the high blood sugar levels. The device has a glucose sensor that shows the patient at what level the high blood sugar level is, secondly it has an insulin pump which can deliver the required insulin the body needs to keep the high blood sugar level under control.

So even though diabetes has become a problem for our generation, the future looks bright for diabetics, development of the artificial pancreas could stabilize the disease and perhaps prolong a diabetic life.