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Everyone has heard of type 1 and type 2 diabetes, but now doctors have coined a new diabetic condition referred to as type 3 diabetes, which simply means that you have both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. How can that happen-is it really possible to get both type 1 and type 2 diabetes simultaneously? Absolutely! Take a look at all three types of diabetes and learn how having type 1 leads to getting type 2, or how type 2 leads to getting type 1, which ultimately gives you type 3 diabetes. Now you’re probably even more confused so let’s take a closer look at what these diabetic conditions are all about.
Type 1 diabetes occurs when your pancreas can no longer produce enough insulin to control the sugar in your blood; and therefore you are insulin deficient. On the hand, type 2 diabetes occurs when your body no longer responds to the insulin being made; and therefore your cells become insulin resistant. In both types of diabetes, you end up having too much sugar in your blood stream which can ultimately lead to heart disease, blindness, amputations, and even death. Now how does type 3 diabetes fit into all of this? Well, with type 3 diabetes, I will describe two scenarios of how it occurs.
In the first scenario, you have type 2 diabetes and your doctor puts you on a diabetic medication. The medicine makes your body produce more insulin because your cells aren’t responding to the levels (deemed inadequate by your doctor) that your body is producing. Your poor pancreas is now working overtime to continuously produce insulin that your cells continuously ignore. Finally, your pancreas burns out because it has been producing mass amounts of insulin to compensate for your heavy carbohydrate, sugary diet for years-if not decades. Simply put, your pancreas was tired of continuously running in circles like a hamster on a wheel, and getting nowhere. As a result, it stops functioning and you now have type 1 diabetes, as well type 2 diabetes. The doctors refer to this condition as type 3 diabetes. Okay, let’s move right along to scenario two.
In scenario two, the reverse happens and you start with type 1 diabetes so you take insulin supplements to give you enough insulin. You continue to eat a high glycemic meal because you now have enough insulin. Eventually, you need more and more insulin because your body is not responding to the amount of insulin supplementation that you started out on in the beginning. Over the long run, your cells become resistant to the insulin and you develop type 2 diabetes, as well as type 1 diabetes. As a result, you now have type 3 diabetes just like the person in the first scenario. What can you do to reverse diabetes? The following three steps should be done immediately upon your first diagnosis of having type 1 or type 2 diabetes, to do both, reverse your diabetic condition and decrease your chances of developing type 3 diabetes: (1) eat right for your nutritional type or try a raw diet, (2) go on a low glycemic diet. Continuing to eat pastas, breads, white rice, and sugary deserts because you are on medication is insane. Remember your mother’s sage advice-a form of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results, and (3) get plenty of exercise.
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Mercola, Joseph MD. ( n.d.) Doctors Cause Diabetics to D.I.E. Mercola.com. Retrieved on August 1, 2009 from http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2005/08/16/doctors-cause-diabetics-to-die.aspx
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It would inspire a great deal more confidence if everyone was reading from the same page.
From numerous articles that I've read about type 3 diabetes, it seems that this 'type' of diabetes ... which has not been confirmed as a different type of diabetes yet is indicative of diabetes leading to Alzheimer's disease.
In the UK, at least, people who suffer with both type 1 and type 2 diabetics are termed as suffering with "mixed" diabetes.
Please don't feel that I'm 'having a go' at you. Nothing could be further from the truth. I'm simply saying that it would be better if the 'scientific community' could get their act together before someone comes out with a new 'diagnosis' rather than their interpretation of some 'out of the ordinary' situation.
Lots of Love and Light.
Mick
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P.S. Please don't be offended, or alarmed, at the "x'". It's merely a logo, of sorts, that I've used for some 30-odd years now.
Mick, I agree with you. I tend to be more subtle when discussing these issues because this is not my platform or personal blog. I do not believe in type 3 diabetes per se. I know that this "new" diabetes is a result of drugs being pushed on people. When the doctors prescribe the meds, they never tell their patients to change their diets so they develop new conditions. I have seen, but not thoroughly read, about type 3 diabetes and Alsheimers. I will definitely take a closer look at it and maybe do an article in the future. In America, the medical industry likes to make up new diseases so that they can make money off of the drugs. Based on the research that I have done, diabetes and high cholesterol, etc are merely metabolic disorders that can be controlled by controlling your insulin and leptin levels through diet. Thanks for the comments-I put a lot of research into my articles and am comfortable particpating in healthy, constructive conversations regarding them.
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disorder. There are several types of "Type 2 diabetes" -- the most common of which arises from insulin resistance. When a "Type 2"'s pancreas stops producing insulin results in insulin-dependent Type 2 diabetes -- *not* Type 1 diabetes.
Type 1 (autoimmune) diabetes is often associated with other autoimmune disorders such as celiac disease.
It is possible for someone with Type 1 diabetes to become insulin resistant. It is also possible (but as far as we know right now, genetically highly unlikely) for something to trigger Type 1 autoimmune genes in people with Type 2 diabetes.
Inside the diabetes community, "Type 3" refers to friends and family members who live with and/or support people with *either* type of diabetes.
People with both autoimmune diabetes and insulin resistance are sometimes said to have "double diabetes".
Tmana, I think we are saying the same thing in your first paragaph-so let's chalk it off to symantics. Like Mick said earlier, it would be nice if everyone could be on the same page with regards to diabetes, but until then, I putting my money on the whole food diet to reverse this aweful condition, which has worked for me. I was prediabetic with hypertension.
Mick is correct, type 3 is a very new form of diabetes which is connected to Alzheimer's studies. But Toni is describing type 1.5 diabetes and it is very complicated to control. An endo, Dr. Bill Quick, who writes on HealthCentral.com, wrote a great blog, titled: Type one-and-a-half diabetes.
A post will be up soon to explain more on the findings of type 3.
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