type 1 diabetes was an insulin-deficient state, whereas patients with type 2 diabetes had substantial amounts of insulin in the blood and could be classified as insulin resistant.[25] Type 1 diabetes can therefore be simplistically described as the type where the pancreas does not release insulin at all. In type 2 diabetes the pancreas is effectively releasing too much insulin and yet this still fails to regulate blood glucose levels normally, as cells have become resistant to insulin.
