https://beyondtype1.org/former-facebook-engineer-dies-of-undiagnosed-type-1-diabetes/
Shame that they all missed the many warning signs. The world needs to get its shit straight and realize that diabetes is a pandemic and that we are not ready to deal with it.
While I agree with you that T2 diabetes is a epidemic this poor guy had a sudden T1 onset, which is an autoimmune problem, not a metabolic one. I haven’t seen any numbers but I wasn’t under the impression that T1 rates were on the up?
There will probably always be some Type I, regardless, but since autoimmune problems are exacerbated by excessive insulin, I wouldn’t be surprised if there is a correlation between the Type I rate and sugar consumption. (Of course, I wouldn’t be surprised by the lack of a correlation, either.)
Perhaps part of the problem is that Type I used to be considered a juvenile disease, so pediatricians know to look for it, but people who develop it in adulthood can be overlooked. I didn’t know it was even possible to develop Type I in adulthood, until I watched a talk on YouTube by Dr. Troy Stapleton, a radiologist who developed Type I at age 40.
I bumped into an old friend last year who became type 1 at age 45, seemingly out of nowhere. I’d assumed he’d been type 2 and then progressed into a insulin dependent type 1-ish. But no, short illness and straight to Type 1, do not stop, do not collect £200.
Latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA) is a slow progressing form of autoimmune diabetes. Like the autoimmune disease type 1 diabetes, LADA occurs because your pancreas stops producing adequate insulin, most likely from some “insult” that slowly damages the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas.