Originally Posted by
Iride01
So absolutely nothing about dealing with type I diabetes and cycling applies to type II?? I'm just curious because all my life people have told me I was a candidate for type II later in life. 60 plus years so far and it's not come true yet. However I casually try to take some interest in such discussion.
There is very little overlap, and they really shouldn't have been given the same name at all. Type 1 is a autoimmune disease that comes about from destruction of your insulin producing beta cells but the rest of your cells are fully functional and respond well to insulin, type 2 you have a mostly functional pancreas that produces normal ranges of insulin but the rest of your cells have become resistant to it, so you can't just give more insulin which has genetic components to risk but is mostly due to poor diet. Type 2 is also curable in most cases with extreme limitation of carbs/sugars so the cells lose their resistance.