I wonder why I’m the only one of seven brothers to have had Type 2 diabetes.
I woke up with this hypothesis this morning : From age 7 to 18, I had an annual shot of Kenacort (Triamcinolone) in June to treat severe hay fever.
One shot was enough to get me through summer, so I guess the dose was pretty big. It would cause swelling of the whole body.
Could it be a possible cause for developing type 2 diabetes, 30 years later ? Thanks in advance if you have any information to share.
Am not familiar with that medication specifically, but my general knowledge of cortisone is that it hijacks the glandular system and oral corticosteroids affect your entire body instead of just a particular area,
You may well be onto something there about one predisposing factor in your metabolic dysfunction - because such glandular manipulation/suppression during childhood and puberty is no small thing. Allergy medication does come with long-term serious side effects that often go away once a person stops taking a steroid, but sometimes they are permanent. Every isolated medicine that is man-made has its own side effects which manifest themselves when the said medicine is taken over an extensive period.
However, the role of diet matters tremendously too. Assuming you and your brothers all have been eating the standard industrial high carb low fat/bad fats diet, it could be possible that the cortisone gave you a certain amount of early metabolic derangement that means you’re simply showing the results sooner, and that your brothers could also be metabolically deranged or pre-diabetic and not know it yet?
Some people don’t show obvious signs of IR until their 60s and 70s, esp if they had an early life with more real foods compared to children today.
Maybe someone here with childhood cortisone experiences decades ago can chime in.
Regardless, LCHF/keto nutrient density now gives you the possibility of completely turning around diabetes through dietary management - or at least the strong possibility of significant reduction in any present medication!
Highly recommend the book The Diabetes Code by Jason Fung, MD!