can anything specific cause you to get type 1 diabetes?
like what can you be doing or eating or not doing to get diabetes?
I can provide a holistic viewpoint.
As with most diseases, a combination of factors predispose a person to developing diabetes. These include (1) etiology, (2) environmental factors, and (3) constitutional factors. I’ll explain each.
(1) Whatever the type of diabetes, it frequently develops in the weeks and months after a shock or injury. This may be physical as in cases of a motor vehicle accident, or emotional as with grief, separation, loss or some other kind of psychological stress.
(2) Environmental factors include being overweight and a long history of poor diet with excess intake of refined carbohydrates.
(3) Constitutional factors include a person’s past and current body-emotional health, family health, hereditary predispositions, life situation stresses, etc.
In insulin dependent diabetes (IDDM, or type 1), constitutional factors are more important. The presentation of IDDM tends to be acute and occurs in childhood, particularly around 10 to 13 years (the incidence of which, in the West, is currently rising).
From a holistic viewpoint, the two Types of Diabetes mellitus are variations of the same disease process. Also, there’s evidence that diabetes of both kinds are related to autoimmune factors.
If you want to know more, here’s a link to another of my answers:
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Take care, sweetie. I hope your concerns are unfounded, and/or early intervention turns your health around.
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No. The cause of Type 1 Diabetes is unknown. All that is known is that it is an immunity system disorder where your antibodies attack specific cells in the pancreas that makes insulin (as though they were intruders like an infection).
Exactly what causes or triggers this immune system mix up is unknown, but is being extensively researched.
But, contrary to popular belief, Type 1 diabetes has no relation to lifestyle like diet and exercise, and there is no known relationships between lifestyle and cause/prevention.
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Type 2
I can provide a holistic viewpoint.
As with most diseases, a combination of factors predispose a person to developing diabetes. These include (1) etiology, (2) environmental factors, and (3) constitutional factors. I’ll explain each.
(1) Whatever the type of diabetes, it frequently develops in the weeks and months after a shock or injury. This may be physical as in cases of a motor vehicle accident, or emotional as with grief, separation, loss or some other kind of psychological stress.
(2) Environmental factors include being overweight and a long history of poor diet with excess intake of refined carbohydrates.
(3) Constitutional factors include a person’s past and current body-emotional health, family health, hereditary predispositions, life situation stresses, etc.
In insulin dependent diabetes (IDDM, or type 1), constitutional factors are more important. The presentation of IDDM tends to be acute and occurs in childhood, particularly around 10 to 13 years (the incidence of which, in the West, is currently rising).
From a holistic viewpoint, the two types of diabetes mellitus are variations of the same disease process. Also, there’s evidence that diabetes of both kinds are related to autoimmune factors.
If you want to know more, here’s a link to another of my answers:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aot7t4njnSa0s8u3bjDyRQ3ty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20080715153213AAzIhpv&show=7#profile-info-QAGB2sl4aa
Take care, sweetie. I hope your concerns are unfounded, and/or early intervention turns your health around.
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As for the Homeopathic answer…. people with type 1 diabetes do not develop the disease from being overweight and having a poor diet with an excess of refined carbohydrates. And at the moment it is thought that it is not gentically inherited. It is an autoimmune disease that is triggered by some unknown virus/condition that has not yet been found.
Type 1 Diabetes and Type 2 Diabetes may come under the umbrella of "Diabetes" but they are very much different diseases with different causes.
Type 1’s cannot make any insulin.
Type 2’s produce too much insulin that cannot be used by the body because of insulin resistance.
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Type 1 for 5 years
In people with diabetes, glucose levels builds up in the blood and urine causing excessive urination, thirst, hunger and problems with fat and protein metabolism.
They are 2 main types of diabetes, simply called Type 1 & Type 2.
Type 1: This type of diabetes accounts for about 10-15 % of all cases of the disease and occurs when the body’s auto-immune defence system against disease incorrectly identifies the islet (insulin-producing) cells as foreign and destroys them. It can also be triggered by viruses such as the flu and certain environmental chemicals.
Treatment (1): Involves lifelong daily insulin injections and a healthy lifestyle.
Type 2: Is far more common and accounts for 85-90 % of diabetes cases. It is considered a lifestyle disease and is associated with inactivity, poor nutrition and excessive weight (particularly around the abdomen). This type of diabetes develops slowly over many years and is known as a progressive condition. This means that the management of blood glucose will change, over time, from diet and exercise to oral medications and sometimes insulin injections.
Another far less common type of diabetes in gestational diabetes, which affects about 4-6 % of females during pregnancy. There is a significant risk or a woman with gestational diabetes to develop Type 2 diabetes later in life.
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