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> It is known from the growing evidence base that a low carb approach can help put type 2 diabetes into remissio, and now experts are exploring its impact on ty
by cbanek 6y ago
> It is known from the growing evidence base that a low carb approach can help put type 2 diabetes into remissio, and now experts are exploring its impact on type 1 diabetes.
> showed the benefits of low carb treatment among adult men with newly-diagnosed type 1 diabetes. The three men were aged between 36 and 40 years old at diagnosis.
First off, spelling error this soon (remissio) raises red flags, but yes, type 1 diabetes is different than type 2, and I thought is usually diagnosed pretty young, since it is very serious. It seems like in the article the patients are aged 36-40, which seems pretty late to be diagnosed with type 1 diabetes?
Are there different causes of type 1 diabetes that can happen later in life? (and are those treated differently?)
- Trasmatta 6y agoYou can get diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at any age. It used to be called "juvenile diabetes" because they thought it only hit children, but that was proven to be false. We don't know if it's different causes in adults vs children, because we don't really know the cause. The mechanism is the same though: the immune system destroying the beta cells in the pancreas.
- cblum 6y agoIt's less common but it happens. My dad was diagnosed in his thirties. I remember him going from being slightly overweight to essentially a skeleton in just a few months.
- Josteniok 6y agoMy wife is a T1 who was diagnosed in her 40s. I sent her this whole comment chain and she wanted me to mention that "...half of all new T1 diagnoses come in ppl over 30."