@A DiabetesTeam Member anything that causes damage to the pancreas - disease, parasite, damage, surgery etc that results in a reduction of insulin production (or total loss) results in a Type of Diabetes called "Type 3C"

The "type" of diabetes you have is a reflection of "what caused it" where some types are auto-immune, metabolic or monogenic (hereditary) in addition to other disease/infection/parasite/damage/removal

The simplest definition of Diabetes (without getting into types) is a disorder/disease that results in the inability to effective metabolize blood sugar "regardless" of what caused the problem and that is the one thing that every type has in common - we can't manage our blood sugar effectively without taking meds or making lifestyle changes (for some types, not all)

The treatments for each are decided depending on your level of impairment and NOT what caused it so Insulin as an example can be used by ANY Type of Diabetic if they need supplemental amounts, regardless of "what" caused the deficiency in other cases oral meds or no meds at all may be possible in "some types"

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Oh, don't think I'm qualified to do that. Just a person who wants answers to why. The medical profession is so brain-washed into thinking that there is no other way to deal with anything except for their "tried and true" ways of doing things, even if the "tried and true" is wrong.

Thank you!! You need to run a class for non- commitaĺ doctors that don't know how to inform the patients what's up in the real world of diabetes!!!!! Sincerely, Kat Wood

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Sorry, you can't control an auto-immune disorder that causes Type 1 and LADA

I guess you could prevent Gestational Diabetes by not getting pregnant, but no prenatal care could prevent it

You can't prevent Monogenic Diabetes because you don't know where it will strike AND the gene is passed (dormant) from one of the parents - so I guess you could require "screening" for anyone wishing to get pregnant and "ban" those that could maybe possibly pass a gene that might be a problem - not practical

With Type 3C which is more of an environmental cause - you got Covid, you got an infection from something else or ended up in a car accident that damaged the pancreas

Could all of those instances been "prevented". maybe if you lived in a plastic bubble but we have to be realistic

But I do agree that about 80% of Type 2 Diagnosis could have been prevented if we had have listened over the years and ate healthy and watched our weight

On subject of Insulin. Yes, insulin resistance means we may well have enough insulin in our bodies "if we weren't diabetic" to do the job, but that isn't us

It's like comparing my truck to my compact car - I need 10 gallons of gas in my truck to travel the same distance as I could get with 5 gallons in the car

Why? because the truck "needs" twice as much gas to achieve the same result - a specific distance travelled

No difference with the insulin - if our insulin resistance means we only effectively use 50% of what we produce we need to double the amount available to achieve "the same level of blood control"

The average person produces about 45 units of insulin a day and that is about how much the average person "needs"

A non-diabetic with no resistance gets the benefit of all of those 45 units

If you have resistance that effectively nullifies 20% of that it doesn't mean you "don't need it" but it does mean that you are going to have to supplement because insulin has a very short "lifespan" - literally seconds after it's released it starts to die so it's not like it is floating around looking for something to do

It has a very limited lifespan to either convert blood sugar into energy or turn blood sugar into body fat - if it can't feed the cells due to resistance, it will try and turn it into body fat and failing that, within minutes of it's release it will simply (Die) with no further value

Those 45 units subjected to 20% resistance means only 36 units get used - if you don't make up the rest your blood sugar will run dangerously high

So you need to add 11 to 12 units of supplemental, so that after they get (likewise) hit with 20% reduction you end up with 9 "usable" units bringing you back to the 45 units you need

(and any of that leftover insulin floating around being resisted will try to help turn left over blood sugar into Body Fat which is also the reason most Type 2's - over 70% are overweight or obese)

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I think you are incorrect in your thinking. Control what "caused" the problem and one can control the disease. Why put more insulin in one's body when the body is producing, but unable to use, the insulin already there? Big Pharma is keeping us sick instead of helping us. Yesterday I heard about a neighbor, who was on metformin, and developed constant diarrhea. He is now dead. I do NOT want to live like that. You have your beliefs and I have mine and the two shall never meet.