DM.

We all need a certain amount of sugar in our bodies for energy. We get this sugar from the food that we eat. This sugar is also called "glucose." The glucose in our blood, "blood glucose" (or blood sugar) must pass into our cells before it can work to produce energy. Glucose is carried into our cells by a chemical called "insulin." We need insulin to carry the glucose from our blood into our cells in order for our bodies to produce energy.

When our bodies do not produce enough insulin to carry the blood sugar into our cells, we don't have enough energy. Because the sugar is not going into our cells it gets higher and higher in our blood. This increase in blood glucose may mean that you have diabetes. Sometimes people have called this "sugar diabetes." The actual term is Diabetes Mellitus and is abbreviated DM.