Normal Blood Sugar Levels for Adults With Diabetes Normally, your pancreas releases insulin when your blood sugar level gets high — after a meal, for example. That signals your body to absorb blood glucose until glucose levels get back to normal. But if you are diabetic, (type 1 diabetes) your body doesn’t make insulin or (type 2 diabetes) doesn’t respond to it normally . That can leave your blood sugar level too high for too long. Over […]