- Researchers have observed that people developing Type 2 diabetes have fat over-spills from the liver into the pancreas, triggering the chronic condition.
- When fat cannot be safely stored under the skin, it is then stored inside the liver, and over-spills to the rest of the body including the pancreas.
- This 'clogs up' the pancreas, switching off the genes which direct how insulin should effectively be produced, and this causes Type 2 diabetes.