When a teen's body starts resisting insulin

In insulin resistance, the pancreas works extra hard to produce more insulin as the body’s cells grow resistant to it, resulting in less glucose being able to enter them to provide energy. (This visual is human-created, AI-aided)

As paediatric endocrinologists, one of the most common concerns we see in the clinic today isn’t diabetes itself, it’s insulin resistance. 

This condition is less known, but plays a central role in the development of type 2 diabetes and other metabolic disorders in teenagers.