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Is it all in the Genes? Type 2.

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I have had it explained to me as mutation. This is actually a loss of the information code within the DNA, which deals with insulin resistance amongst other things, and means that we can no longer manage glucose as we were designed to do.
As someone who does not fit the pre-conceived notion of the so called identikit T2 that certainly does make sense! 8)
 
Interesting to find something about Genes as I 'don't fit criteria' for Type 2.

Although some factors are against me (south asian and both parents diagnosed with Type 2) but I'm not overweight and seemingly my age being 34 puts me on the young side for Type 2.

I've been told today by my local Diabetes clinic that they want do more tests (so many tests...)

So next up insulin tests.

I've been referred to a Geneticist too to check further too.

So will see what happens eh.
 
Does none of your diabetes doctors tell you that type 2 is inheritable? My diabetes doctor told me on diagnosis when I told him my father has age onset type 2 diabetes (most likely brought on by his alcoholism) ... I thought it was well known that it's not just weight related :?:
 
Interesting that they are positioning high blood glucose as a mechanism to sustain successful pregnancy in times of famine.
[Although I think this is just a guess as to why high blood glucose could have an evolutionary benefit.]

If that is so, then those identified by the study (mainly European and Asian) are optimised for famine and not for feast.
[Although I thought that Afro/Carribean ancestry was a risk factor for diabetes.]

This makes life hard when food is plentiful and cheap.

Starvation diet, anyone?

Cheers

LGC

P.S. periods of religious fasting may make more sense than is in initially apparent.
 
No-one in my family has previously had diabetes - BUT - that generation 'never bothered the doctor'.

Just how many people born in the first quarter of the 20th century had undiagnosed Type 2 as they came into late middle age?

Viv 8)
 
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