maladroit definition: The definition of maladroit is awkward or showing a lack of skills. (adjective) An example of a maladroit person is an employee who cannot accomplish the simplest tasks of the job....
Insulin: An elevated blood glucose concentration results in the secretion of insulin: glucose is transported into body cells. The uptake of glucose by liver, kidney and brain cells is by diffusion and does not require insulin.
Diabetes is a disease in which the body doesn't make insulin or enough insulin. Insulin is necessary for sugar to be transported across the cell membrane into the cells. Sugar is used by the cells to make energy for life. Think of insulin as a transport truck that delivers sugar into the cells. No truck, no sugar. No sugar, no energy. No energy, no life.