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As physicians, we often meet patients who believe diabetes is only about “sugar.” They think of it as a number on a glucometer or a reading in a lab report. While blood sugar is indeed the measurable parameter that defines diabetes, the condition itself is far more complex. Diabetes is not simply a problem of sugar—it is a problem of metabolism, blood vessels, hormones, and the body’s delicate balance of energy.

In clinical medicine, some conditions are easy to label — fever, infection, fracture, trauma. The tests are clear, the treatment is direct. But then there are patients who walk in and say, “Doctor, I don’t feel like myself anymore.”