Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
What caused killer t-cells to attack the beta cells in my pancreas, preventing them from producing insulin, making my blood sugar skyrocket and triggering my Type 1 diabetes? That was in 1962. No one has come up with a convincing explanation yet. Scientists aren't even close to figuring out the interactions between the environment, genes, the immune system and who-knows-what-else that result in Type 1 (T1) or Type 2 (T2) diabetes. If you travel around the Internet, it appears that the entire world is one big "risk factor" for these conditions.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-fleshler/diabetes-causes_b_4197014.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-fleshler/diabetes-causes_b_4197014.html