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Please forgive my ignorance, how is it possible that you lived until your thirties without knowing you have T1D?


The really interesting thing is not that T1D diagnosis has erased the label for "Juvenile onset diabetes" because it can happen at any age, it's that those previously-thought-destroyed pancreatic cells that produce insulin, are actually continuing decades after disease diagnosis and can be "reactivated" via BCG or Valter Longo's FMD:

"Identifying most people with T1D continue to secrete varying amounts of insulin and C-peptides for decades after initial diagnosis:

https://www.healthline.com/diabetesmine/dr-faustmans-controv...

See below for my deeper response on these and other issues:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30382364


Peak age of diagnosis is mid-teens with quite a sharp bell curve. But, it can develop at any age.

It takes a genetic predisposition and a trigger - perhaps a virus? - for your immune system to start eating your pancreas' insulin-producing cells.

The old labels of "juvenile diabetes" etc. are as unhelpful as the notion it's caused by obesity.



T1D can be triggered at any time in a person’s life. It’s autoimmune. Thinking of it as a childhood disease is outdated and (fortunately) most doctors are becoming aware of that.


diagnosed at 25, it happens :-/




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