I want to learn what you're learning! ((((sorry you struggle with autoimmune disorders))))

I just wrote an email (discourse) to my T just a few minutes ago on how I once aced a human bio course, and in that course, I wrote a very limited paper (she said no more than 3 pages, double-spaced) on diabetes mellitus (both 1 and 2). I don't remember what the **** I wrote, LOL, but I do know that we studied adipocytes (adipose cells), and from what I can recall, we can only shrink them, but we cannot decrease their number. Also, when people get liposuction, what happens is it temporarily decreases adipose cells, but then they return in greater number - thus defeating the purpose in the long run. In "The Obesity Code" book, it describes how obesity is NOT our fault, and how certain foods have changed our DNA to the point that diabetes or other diseases follow, depending. Also, things like chronic stress (high cortisol), PTSD, insomnia, psychotropic medications (that some people need, but with the downfall of physiological/iatrogenic disorders) will lead to obesity then insulin resistance then diabetes and then more issues all around. Loneliness is also a contributor of obesity and related diabetes. But most importantly, the processed food industrial complex - the capitalism on our foods - because there's not enough fresh food to feed everyone in the world. Healthier eating isn't affordable to everyone, so primarily the rich can afford real fresh food, the upper class and maybe middle class can afford semi- or pseudo-rich food (with some processing), and the poor can only afford processed foods to keep them "full" or "energized" for their arduous labor (since they often can't afford higher education for cushy desk jobs).

The poison in those processed foods (from birth - in baby formula and jarred baby foods to adulthood processed canned, boxed, and frozen foods) change our DNA, which then make us obese later in life. Thus, it's not our fault.

Some say we could just watch what we eat, but that doesn't mean that diabetes doesn't linger in our tissues. It does. Our adipose cells have the diabetic code already, from the poisons in our processed foods and in the mother's womb, when she eats processed foods. It's already there. The only thing we can do is MAINTAIN our diabetes to the point of preventing our bodies from getting that disease or even to the levels of prediabetes.

It's like mental illness; we cannot STOP IT willfully. We can only MAINTAIN it, since it lingers in our endocrine, limbic, and neurological systems. Just because our mental illness symptoms subside with meds and coping skills, it doesn't mean that it's not there. In a similar vein, just because we lose weight and prevent the labs from showing "diabetes," it doesn't mean that the diabetes isn't there. It just means that the labs haven't detected it from the ways they collect that data. It also just means that we've maintained our diabetes to keep it from being detectible in blood labs.

So, the thin people who eat processed foods (including vegan processed foods) in "moderation" and count calories are only maintaining their diabetes. They are still at high-risk, which is why you see people without any diabetes diagnosis dying from Covid-19, the flu, or other illnesses that non-diabetics (who don't have altered DNA or metabolic disorders undetectable by blood tests); they're not "without risks." Their risks were simply ignored and undetected. So, there are essentially many diabetics out there who have merely maintained their diabetes, but they were fortunate to stay thin without other disorders (like depression, dissociation, eating disorders, and PTSD, mobility disorders, CFS/ME) that make exercise and diet more challenging, especially if disabled and unable to afford fresh foods or the energy to cook fresh foods all the time. Most of the maintenance is based on individual effort, but the responsibility of diabetes and obesity - that's also on society and the food industrial complex. It's all from capitalism - selling poison to allow us to live just long enough, but not as long as the filthy rich, because there isn't enough fresh food to feed everyone on earth. So our DNA has changed because of it, and we get inadvertently blamed for something that was never our fault to begin with. Many books and scientific data attest to that.

So, this is what I shared with my T - kind of - in a nutshell.

But yes, I do believe in HEALTHIER LIVING, and for that, we are NOT TAUGHT THIS - especially when growing up in a dysfunctional, abusive home. Even our doctors don't teach us this. Sadly, our ignorance has made us sick, but it's not our fault because we were never taught.

And even when we are taught, like I was in my human bio class, I still wasn't taught about the severity and need to change now. The pseudo security is this belief that we have time to correct it, when diseases can fall upon us when we least expect it, especially if diabetes is already running through our cells because of the processed foods we had as babies and in the mother's womb, and then throughout life.

Try getting fresh seafood an hour after it's been caught, or freshly picked produce that lasts longer than the shelf life with tons of pathogens gathered on store-bought produce - you'll find out how expensive and difficult it is to get truly fresh food. But the pseudo-fresh will do, so long as they don't have any additives or pesticides or other gook to preserve them from point A freshness to point B the store's pseudo-freshness - before it becomes a processed or spoiled food.

I'm just disgusted with this life.

BUT I WANT TO LEARN HEALTHIER LIVING. IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO TRY TO INCREASE YOUR LIFESPAN - EVEN IF BY A FEW DAYS! YOU ARE IMPORTANT. WE ARE IMPORTANT! WE DESERVE HEALTHIER LIVING.