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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



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