How Diabetes Is Affecting Our Dhatus/ Tissues

• Mamsa (muscles): When our body doesn’t have enough insulin in our blood, the glucose in the blood cannot get into muscles to fuel them. Gradually lack of glucose leads to damage of muscle cells and necrosis.
• Asthi (bone): De-mineralization of bone tissue leads to weak bones. People with diabetes tend to have low vitamin D, Calcium, etc in their bones. Elevated blood glucose levels lead to chronic inflammation which directly affects the quality and strength of the bone.
• Rasa (plasma): hyperglycemia or high blood sugar increases the thickness of plasma, hence friction may be increased, leading to cell damage.
• Rakta (blood): declined quality of the blood cells leads to increase in viscosity ( resistance of fluids against the flow) that leads to friction between the blood elements and between the vessel lumen and blood.
• Medhas (fat): When insulin doesn't work in the body like it should and blood sugar levels get too high that leads to hypertrophy of adipose tissue.
• Majja (marrow tissue): As a result of high blood sugar, blood flow to the brain becomes low and causes degeneration of brain tissue.
• Sira (arteries): For prolonged diabetec patients, blood flow will be reduced and that causes atherosclerosis. It is a condition in which fats and cholesterol are deposited on an artery wall that restricts blood flow.
• Snayu (nerves): High blood sugar damages the nerves and weakens the walls of the small blood vessels that supply the nerves with oxygen and nutrients leads to neuropathies.
• Tvak (skin): When blood sugar is high, blood flows to the tissues becomes very low, hence death of body tissue happens leads to necrosis, ulcers, carbuncles.
• Shukra (reproductive tissue): Diabetes reduces testosterone levels that lead to loss of libido, transmission to the next generation.

Diabetes affects various tissues in our body in many ways.