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<blockquote data-quote="Bunjo" data-source="post: 1181612" data-attributes="member: 93077"><p>I'll agree and then I'll disagree. Yes, sometimes particular diseases are caused by a genetic defect in a specific gene. T2 diabetes is not one of those diseases. Diabetes is the consequence of a person's metabolism (many, many genes working or competing together) and how that metabolism is affected by what they eat, how often they eat, and how stressed their metabolism is. </p><p></p><p>This takes place over a number of years and varies from person to person. Many will never develop diabetes, some will over a number of years, some over a number of decades. Some people only develop diabetes when they move to another country and/or culture. Which suggests that while some people are more disposed to developing diabetes than others the bad gene(s) = diabetes is too simplistic. It is a recipe for pessimism or fatalism. Particularly as some people are able to reduce or reverse their diabetes by diet and lifestyle changes - while their genes are unchanged.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bunjo, post: 1181612, member: 93077"] I'll agree and then I'll disagree. Yes, sometimes particular diseases are caused by a genetic defect in a specific gene. T2 diabetes is not one of those diseases. Diabetes is the consequence of a person's metabolism (many, many genes working or competing together) and how that metabolism is affected by what they eat, how often they eat, and how stressed their metabolism is. This takes place over a number of years and varies from person to person. Many will never develop diabetes, some will over a number of years, some over a number of decades. Some people only develop diabetes when they move to another country and/or culture. Which suggests that while some people are more disposed to developing diabetes than others the bad gene(s) = diabetes is too simplistic. It is a recipe for pessimism or fatalism. Particularly as some people are able to reduce or reverse their diabetes by diet and lifestyle changes - while their genes are unchanged. [/QUOTE]
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