If you contracted it due to an autoamune response then it was your strong immune system that killed off the beta cells. I too seem not to get ill like my friends.I became a type 1 diabetic in January 1959 after a bout of Asian flu. My mother told the consultant that her mother became a diabetic after suffering from flu and she believed this had caused me to develop the disease. (My maternal grandmother died from diabetes in 1924.) The consultant told her that her theory was rubbish but statistics show that after a flu epidemic more people are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes so there has to be a connection.
Of course the pharmaceutical industry won't be willing to spend millions on finding a cure. They make their millions out of this disease/condition. However, universities such as Imperial College and UCL are working on this and maybe one day they will hit the jackpot but I somehow doubt it. After all if part of the pancreas has been destroyed how can you rejuvenate it?
I am grateful that managing diabetes is so much easier today than it was in the 1960s. Having had this condition for nearly 60 years it is part and parcel of my life. Being widowed I live alone and have to care for myself. I am rarely ill so I must be doing something right!
You may well have a point there, T1 38 yrs and maybe only laid low by a bug once or twice in all that time.If you contracted it due to an autoamune response then it was your strong immune system that killed off the beta cells. I too seem not to get ill like my friends.
Likewise, the headlines are amazing - and then slightly anti-climatic towards the end of the article. But then, the headline has done it's job properly hasn't it...?
I think an organisation made up exclusively of diabetics (with adequate knowledge of the existing orginisations) would find a cure quicker
At another forum where I am a member, we have a team crunching numbers for the World Community Grid, it has been mostly cancer research looking for a cure. There are other serious diseases that we process as well ranging from Aids to Zika.
In the length of time I have been doing this I have never seen any diabetes data offered . Surely there must be diabetes researchers out there that could use a lot of the computer power that is freely available from home users.
Edit: Perhaps @Administrator or other staff might be able to throw some light on this.
If you contracted it due to an autoamune response then it was your strong immune system that killed off the beta cells. I too seem not to get ill like my friends.
I have forwarded ample evidence of how incompetent and dishonest some publicly employed medical researchers are to the Health minister and other relevant bodies. No response. Of course I can't make that evidence public.
Do not give money to medical research until the corruption in medical academia is dealt with, and the calls by the BMJ and others for data transparency are heeded.
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