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Originally Posted by paulycoll
Yeah I understand. But that does not rule out the same pharmacological intervention to prevent type
1 or type 2 diabetes. Mental disorders may be drastically cut in the future by intervening in early child development in the womb and while the child is developing as a baby. Take for example choline , it seems may have inherited value to a baby in the womb.
Once any of these conditions become expressed and active , we maybe curtailed in our pharmacological response because the micro anatomy is already defined.
But I do believe that there will be medical interventions that will drastically cut mental illness rates in the future.
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True, but type 1 and type 2 are not treated the same. With type 1 you have one treatment: insulin therapy. With type 2 you have treatments for insulin resistance, GLP1 therapy, therapy that helps the liver decrease glucose production, therapy to help the pancreas produce more insulin (without taking insulin,) and now even a new therapy that increases the output of glucose in the urine (which is one I'm kind of unsure about.) Then, after all of that fails, then doctors consider insulin. It's a completely different process and algorythm, and a complicated one, because with type 2 everyone's combination of issues is different and sometimes it's not so clear what's going on until the pancreas just wears out, and even then it's common to see people with type 2 on insulin and still continue other therapies as well.
So, it is more basic than mental illness, I agree, but it's just kind of like a simple example of how two illnesses with the same outcome are actually pretty different.