High Blood Sugar, Diabetes, and Your Body

When you have diabetes, your blood sugar (aka blood glucose) levels may be consistently high.

As a result, your body can be damaged over time and many other issues can arise.

How much sugar in the blood is too much?

And why is high glucose so bad for you?

Here’s a look at how your levels affect your health.

Listen to Dr. Ngozo’s interview on Ikwekwezi FM as he dives deep into blood sugar and diabetes.

Our new addition to the team Anele May joins us to discuss about herself, her profession, and what inspired her to choose this career path. She also educates us on what her career path is like as well as how she has found the Touch Of Life Team to be.

If you have diabetes, your pancreas either doesn't produce any insulin or doesn't produce enough insulin.

Lack of insulin causes high blood sugar since it carries glucose from your bloodstream into your cells.

Without treatment, high blood sugar can cause nerve damage and other serious complications.

Fortunately, you can manage your diabetes with lifestyle changes and medications.

If diabetes interferes with your career, hobbies, or relationships, a few changes to your routine can greatly improve your quality of life.

We have invited Kagiso Molosiwa, A 32-year-old brilliant young man who has lived with Type 1 diabetes for the past 20yers.

After years of difficultly Kagiso ultimately accepted his condition and started lifestyle changes not only to live but to thrive with diabetes.