Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Insulin

Insulin: the key to getting glucose out of your blood and into your cells. Having diabetes means your body can’t make insulin and/or use insulin properly.

There are lots of different types of insulin used to treat diabetes. But how are they different? What do they do? How exactly do they work?

Check out the One Drop Guide to Insulin [PDF] to learn the basics about insulin and how it relates to diabetes, including onset, peak, and duration data for 18 different insulins. After you’re done, check out the One Drop Guide to A1C to learn the numbers behind this core diabetes metric.

Enjoy!

Originally published at onedrop.today on January 11, 2016.