Where does Type 1 Diabetes come from?

Man, as they say, is weak. And not only with your addictions and bad habits. No matter how much someone boasts of his “iron” health, he will still have some weak spot. Some receive it in the womb. Others acquire it during life.

Have you ever wondered why one person is tall and another is short, one has a long nose, another has a button nose? What about eye and hair color? We are all amazingly different. There are no two completely identical people on the planet; even twins have differences. Man is a biological machine. Spiritualized, and yet still a machine with its own development program, “written” by chance. Like any living creature, a person has his own genetic code. The set of genes responsible for a species is constant. We always distinguish, for example, a dog from a cat, no matter what breed they are.

But different variations among individuals of the same species always exist. Chance rules here. Two people - he and she - expecting offspring, never know which combination of genes their child will get. It may be successful and the native will have good health. Or it could be different. And the child will receive a programmed disease, although he may look quite healthy at birth. It often happens, for example, that bronchial asthma or diabetes mellitus that appears “out of nowhere” in a young person is explained by a genetic defect acquired by chance in the womb.

What most often causes this weak point in the fetal body, which subsequently leads to diabetes mellitus? Due to the stress experienced by a woman during pregnancy. Moreover, stress should be understood not only as emotional shocks, but also as operations, illnesses, and hunger. This is also a shake-up for the body - the same stress. It is this that sometimes leads to the fact that the insulin-producing cells of the newborn’s pancreas become sensitive to viral infections. And then a common runny nose, chickenpox, flu or something else like that leads to inflammation in the cells of the pancreas. And any inflammation, as is known, ends with the replacement of living cells with connective tissue - a scar. After all, they form not only on the skin, reminding a person of the trauma he once suffered. They also appear in internal organs, where areas of inflammation are replaced by connective tissue.

But scars on the affected areas of a particular organ will never be able to perform its function. If there are few scars, then, in general, nothing bad happens. The organ copes with its functions. When there are too many scars, the functioning of the pancreas is disrupted.

It also happens: stress during pregnancy leads to the birth of a child with defects in some parts of the immune system. (The immune system, as is known, protects a person from the invasion of the body by anything foreign).

Then she mistakes her own pancreatic tissue for someone else’s and begins to fight it - reject it, and inflammation develops in the cells that produce insulin, as a result of which the same scars are formed. A similar mechanism of “misrecognition” of one’s own cells underlies many diseases. Doctors call them autoimmune. A striking example of such diseases is rheumatoid arthritis, when joint cartilage is perceived by the immune system as foreign tissue. A war begins with him. Eventually, after swelling and pain in the joints, they become stiff.

Of course, the presence of a “weak spot” in a person’s body does not mean that he will certainly someday develop diabetes. But if stress occurs during the growth and development of the body, when it is constantly undergoing restructuring, causing some instability of systems, the weak link may break. And then the disease begins. That is why the harmonious development of a little person is very important, without pain