Posted on 08/20/2014 8:42:35 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX
Work by scientists at the Universities of Manchester and Auckland suggest that both major forms of diabetes, type 1 and type 2, are the result of the same mechanism.
The findings, published in the FASEB Journal, provide compelling evidence that juvenile-onset or type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes are both caused by the formation of toxic clumps of a hormone called amylin.
The results, based on 20 years’ work in New Zealand, suggest that type 1 and type 2 diabetes could both be slowed down and potentially reversed by medicines that stop amylin forming these toxic clumps.
(Excerpt) Read more at biosciencetechnology.com ...
It doesn't seem to square with the “epidemic” of type 2 diabetes in this country that seems to correspond closely with the “epidemic” of obesity. Of course our “epidemic” of obesity seems to correspond with the increased popularity of super-sized fast food, candy and corn syrup based soft drinks.
Around the time that I turned 50 I realized that my gastric system was starting to rebel against the staples in my diet such as 64oz Double Big Gulps, jumbo sized Big Bite Hot-dogs, potato chips and large quantities of candy bars. When I was younger I could gorge on these types of culinary delights day after day with no apparent ill effects. But around the time I turned 50 all those great highly refined food products, the pinnacle of modern industrial food preparation began giving me abdominal pain and diarrhea.
I was forced to change my dietary habits, even give up my normal half gallon of milk every day which had been used to wash down all those candy bars and cookies. My gastric system forced me to start eating less candy, grease filled hot-dogs, hamburgers and sandwiches. I had to stop drinking half gallon sized big gulps filled with caffeinated corn syrup based soft drinks.
It is crazy, but I find that I have lost weight, am sleeping better, feeling better and have more energy. Who da thunk it?
There was a company called Amylin Pharmaceuticals that was bought out a couple of years ago. They produced drugs for diabetes.
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I am the only one in my extended family that has it. A nurse told me that an 87 yr. old can get Type I. I think it was the Cherry Coke that did me in.
“No one in my immediate family had diabetes II, except me.
No one in my spouse’s immediate family, mother,father, siblings, grandparents, had the disease, but he contracted it.I would like to know the answer as to why, hopefully in my lifetime.”
Either one of you take statins for an extended period...I know someone with the same lack-of-family background that blames statins for the condition.
I think it is possible that type 2 could be an autoimmune disease, too. Time will tell.
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