Diabetes: Type 1 and 2 known for since 500 AD, Type 1.5 (LADA) known since 1993

Latent autoimmune diabetes of adults Wikipedia

• ‘It is estimated that more than 50% of persons diagnosed as having non-obesity-related type 2 diabetes may actually have LADA’
• “It is estimated that between 6-50% of all persons, depending on population, diagnosed with type 2 diabetes might actually have LADA.”
• “ This number accounts for an estimated 5%-10% of the total diabetes population in the U.S. or, as many as 3.5 million persons with LADA”

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What Is LADA Diabetes and Why is it Being Called a Pending Epidemic? June 2013 – good overview

• Does it really matter how each one works, so long as your doctor diagnoses it and gives you the right treatment?
  Well, that’s the main problem with LADA
  – it can be very hard to diagnose by a physician who hasn’t seen it before, and the treatment it requires is quite different from Type 1 OR Type 2.
• "A misdiagnosis early can do irreparable damage and speed up the onset of insulin-dependence and full-on symptoms"

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Characteristics and Prevalence of Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults (LADA) – 2009

Very different ways to treat Type 1, Type 2 and LADA

PDF is attached at the bottom of this page

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See also VitaminDWiki

• Search VitaminDWiki for LADA 10 items as of Aug 2014
• Does Vitamin D Affect Risk of Developing Autoimmune Disease?: A Systematic Review File, not a webpage
• Overview Diabetes and vitamin D contains the following summary
• Diabetes is 5X more frequent far from the equator
• Children getting 2,000 IU of vitamin D are 8X less likely to get Type 1 diabetes
• Obese people get less sun / Vitamin D - and also vitamin D gets lost in fat
• Sedentary people get less sun / Vitamin D
• Worldwide Diabetes increase has been concurrent with vitamin D decrease and air conditioning
• Elderly get 4X less vitamin D from the same amount of sun
      Elderly also spend less time outdoors and have more clothes on
• All items in category Diabetes and Vitamin D 529 items: both Type 1 and Type 2

Vitamin D appears to both prevent and treat diabetes

• Appears that >2,000 IU will Prevent
• Appears that >4,000 IU will Treat , but not cure
• 90% less T2 Diabetes in the group having lots of Vitamin D
• Appears that Magnesium helps both Prevention and Treatment
• Many diabetics would be better treated if Gut-Friendly Vitamin D were used

Number of articles in both categories of Diabetes and:
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• Dark Skin 24;   Intervention 56;   Meta-analysis 38;   Obesity 34;  Pregnancy 43;   T1 (child) 39;  Omega-3 11;  Vitamin D Receptor 23;  Genetics 12;  Magnesium 27    Click here to see details

Some Diabetes studies

• Type 2 Diabetes treated by Vitamin D (often 50,000 IU weekly) – meta-analysis July 2023
• Diabetic inflammation synergistically decreased by Vitamin D and exercise – RCT June 2022
• Incidence of Type-2 Diabetes increased 3X in 30 years (by the way, Vitamin D helps) – July 2022
• Vitamin d treats Type II Diabetes in many ways (14 article review) - Sept 2021
• T2 Diabetes 30 percent more likely if poor Vitamin D Receptor – meta-analysis of 47 studies – July 2021
• Diabetes helped somewhat by weekly 50,000 IU of vitamin D (5 ways to improve) – RCT Aug 2021

50 ng of Vitamin D fights Diabetes

• Saudi study defines normal Vitamin D level to be 50 to 70 ng (diabetes, etc.) - June 2020
• Diabetes 5X less likely if more than 50 ng of Vitamin D – April 2018

T1 Diabetes

• T1 Diabetes 3X lower risk if high vitamin D (over 40 ng) – Meta-analysis Nov 2020
• Type 1 Diabetes is prevented and treated by Vitamin D – review of 16 studies – Sept 2019
• Type 1 Diabetes prevention with Vitamin D and Omega-3 – Symposium April 2019

Pre-Diabetes

• 4X reduction in prediabetes progressing to T2D if more than 50 ng of vitamin D – RCT March 2023
• Prediabetes reduced by weekly 60,000 IU of Vitamin D – RCT Jan 2021
• Prediabetes 1.5 X more likely to go away if take Vitamin D – meta-analysis July 2020

Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Magnesium - many studies