In Type 1, the body stops making insulin, a hormone needed to process sugar, or it makes too little.

When you eat, the pancreas makes insulin to send a message to other cells in the body.

An additional 15 million are thought to have Type 2 diabetes, in which the body may make insulin, but cannot use it properly.

With Type 1 diabetes, your body does not make insulin.

They continued making insulin, though not enough to cure the mice of diabetes.

Most people with this type of diabetes eventually stop making natural insulin at some point.

In most women, the pancreas makes more insulin to overcome this effect.

Type I patients don't make enough insulin on their own.

Diabetes is caused by a problem in the way your body makes or uses insulin.

With Type 2 diabetes, the more common type, your body does not make or use insulin well.