Type 3 Diabetes Mellitus is somewhat different from type 1 and type 2 diabetes. All three suffer from issues with insulin, but while type 1 diabetics are insulin dependent, and type 2 diabetics are insulin resistant, type 3 diabetics are a hybrid of both conditions. In addition, the origination of diabetes type 3 is not the pancreas, as in the other two types.

A few years ago, researchers discovered that the body produces insulin in the pancreas and in the brain. In type 3 diabetes, the pancreas and respective insulin in the body is not impaired. The insulin in the brain is what is defective. Either the brain stops making adequate insulin or it sends signals to cell receptors instructing them not to accept the available insulin.

When the brain cells do not receive vital insulin, a protein called amyloid plaque is formed on the receptors. The cells will be …