Álex Ruiz, 29, is one of the best paddle players in the world.
As he has told several occasions and describes in his Instagram profile, at 10 he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.
This chronic disease is characterized by increasing blood sugar levels and forces to inject insulin because its body does not produce this hormone that is responsible for controlling glucose values.
Alex Fernández, Defense of Madrid, tennis player Alexander Zverev and basketball player Lauren Cox integrates the list of consecrated athletes who suffer from this condition and are synonymous with struggle.
In fact, when Ruiz's disease was diagnosed, he was told that his dream of dedicating himself to practicing some sport would be impossible.
And while this prejudice and denial for people diagnosed with diabetes, the young man and his colleagues became great references that a profession can have a profession or meet a goal beyond this pathology, continues.
Álex Ruiz was sincere about type 1 diabetes that he suffers from the age of 10 and told how he affects his profession.
"The body suffers a lot of very sudden changes, that you do not expect, and I have to give much importance to recovery and sleep. Sleeping and eating well greatly affects blood glucose," he said in an interview with El Mundo.
One of the emotional symptoms that must be controlled when diabetes is suffered, according to specialists, is stress and mental exhaustion, which are usually present before and during a paddle match.
In this sense, Álex said: "The pressure and tension affects me a lot. Destabilizes me. I also suffer a lot from schedule and weather changes."
In addition, he revealed about his illness: “In all parties something happens to me.It is difficult because of the issue of sugar, that you run out of strength.And then at the end of the matches, for tension and nerves, my glycemia shoots.Always. "and adapt. ”
Then, he referred to the changes that notice due to this condition: “The body changes all the time and I have tools to solve it, but for example a dose of insulin that used to me well, maybe now it is not going well.There is no pattern that you can establish and continue in your day to day because it is a constant change. "
About being considered a reference for young people who suffer from diabetes, he said: "Children have the same doubts as me and try to help them. I can tell you that I dedicate myself to what I like and be able to reflect that in society is proud.I do not have a perfect diabetes because that does not exist, but I do it as well as possible.