Diabetes mellitus – known to many as type 1 and type 2 diabetes – gets all the attention with its rising global prevalence and connection to lifestyle and autoimmunity.

Meanwhile, its lesser-known relative – diabetes insipidus – more quietly affects hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, but is an altogether different condition, unrelated to blood sugar.

Both forms share the same defining symptom: excessive urination. The word diabetes comes from ancient Greek meaning "passing through", which perfectly captures what happens to newly affected patients.

In the more-familiar diabetes mellitus , sugar builds up in the blood because the body either doesn't make enough insulin or can't use it properly. When this happens, extra sugar enters the urine, and that sugar pulls water ou

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