I had read some information lately that doctors and scientists thought that diabetes should be reclassified as an autoimmune disease. I don't know a lot about autoimmune diseases yet, but how would this work? I'm trying to make sense of it.
Diabetes Type 2 means that the pancreas beta cells are damaged, right? Well, if diabetes is an autoimmune disorder, wouldn't that mean that the body's immune cells are destroying the pancreas cells because they (the immune cells) think that they (the pancreas cells) are foreign invaders?
And why would they think that? Is there something attaching itself to the pancreatic cells that they don't like? If so, what is it?
What causes autoimmune diseases anyway? Everything I've researched about it just says basically "no one knows what causes autoimmune disorders; it's a big mystery."
Well I think that is hogwash. Maybe you guys know something more about this.
Diabetes Type 2 means that the pancreas beta cells are damaged, right? Well, if diabetes is an autoimmune disorder, wouldn't that mean that the body's immune cells are destroying the pancreas cells because they (the immune cells) think that they (the pancreas cells) are foreign invaders?
And why would they think that? Is there something attaching itself to the pancreatic cells that they don't like? If so, what is it?
What causes autoimmune diseases anyway? Everything I've researched about it just says basically "no one knows what causes autoimmune disorders; it's a big mystery."
Well I think that is hogwash. Maybe you guys know something more about this.