Use your answer to the previous question to explain how we could we apply our knowledge of glucose transport in the kidneys in the management of diabetes mellitus.
We know that the elevated blood glucose levels that occur in diabetes mellitus have an adverse effect on homeostasis.
We know that our kidneys are designed to reabsorb glucose in the tubule system.
It makes sense to reabsorb glucose because through evolutionary history, providing adequate energy has always been a challenge. It doesn't make any sense to go to the effort of obtaining energy through food, only to have that energy lost through the kidneys.
If blood glucose levels are excessively high in a person with diabetes mellitus, it would be sensible to increase glucose loss through the kidneys, and that can be done by inhibiting the SGLTs that are responsible for reabsorption. SGLT inhibitors are useful in the management of hypoglycaemia.