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There is probably more than one reason why people are juvenile onset diabetics IMHO. Lane, I think it likely that you were diabetic for some time prior to being diagnosed. This is true of most diabetics, and in your 20's is pretty old to be diagnosed.

I agree with you 100% that anyone with diabetes needs to learn as much about it as they possibly can. Nobody cares more about your well being than you do, and you are there every day to take care of yourself. I spend an hour with new patients that are diabetics, and every time I see them I spend time doing education. Every single diabetic patient I have ever had has told me at least once, "I did not know that about diabetes."

It is all about glucose control. If BG is too high, your pancreas is supposed to squirt out some insulin turn that glucose into glycogen which is stored in your liver. If BG is too high, your pancreas is supposed to squirt out some glucagon, which mobilizes the glycogen in your liver and turns it back into glucose. There is more to it than that, but that is your thumbnail sketch. Diet, weight and activity level will also have an impact on what your sugar is doing.

Type 1 DM, your body is not making insulin. In type 2 DM, your body either is not making enough insulin, or the insulin it makes is not having the desired effect, for various reasons. That HFCS poison has been shown to play a role in inducing onset of type 2 DM.

You could spend years studying it, and still have things to learn about diabetes