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Andreas Moritz explains the causes of diabetes. Diabetes can be genetic, but just because family members have had diabetes, doesn't mean you'll get it. Diet and lifestyle have a bigger impact on whether or not you'll develop the disease. The health of your pancreas plays a large role in the development of diabetes.

Raena Morgan: Can a person be predisposed genetically to develop diabetes, or is it all lifestyle, or is a combination of the two?

Andreas Moritz: There are certain genetic and typically you would say they run in the family.

RM: Right.

AM: And you say my dad had diabetes and so I might develop diabetes. You are not born as a diabetic; that's pretty rare. Again there are contributing factors, so if you have a weakness or a predisposition it doesn't necessarily mean you will get it. If you have fifty people who have a predisposition, you compare with fifty people who don't, you don't have a higher number of diabetics coming from the first group than in the second group. So it doesn't necessarily mean that if you have the gene factor for diabetes you will develop diabetes. But if you are creating-

RM: If the environment is right.

AM: If you have a diet and a lifestyle that will cause diabetes, even in healthy people, that means the ones that are having predispositions to diabetes, they are the first ones to develop it.

RM: I'm wondering the difference between type I and type II. Type I seems like it would be more hereditary or genetically predisposed.

AM: You would think so, that there are certain things that happen in the mother's womb. Again, there are indications that poor nourishment, development, poor development in mothers, issues with the liver or pancreas may then lead to- and some problems in the embryo,-

RM: Okay.

AM: -and then develop certain predispositions towards developing that. But again what is found, there is some very good piece of research to show that if children get fried foods, like again a lot of trans fatty acids, their risk of developing type I diabetes goes up.

RM: It does?

AM: Yes. And liver always influences the pancreas more than any other organ, so if they eat certain kinds of food that contaminate the liver and weaken the liver and create gallstones, which we may be able to talk about later on.

RM: Yes.

AM: These are causing problems to the pancreas and the health of the pancreas because when the pancreas, which is emptying its waste products via the liver, there is a vein that passes the waste products directly into the liver when the liver is getting congested and the pancreas will no longer be able to function properly. And if there are any stones that are released from the gallbladder or the liver and they enter the pancreas via the common bile duct and they start moving up into the pancreatic duct, and that can cause damage to the cells, insulin producing cells in the pancreas. So that is one cause of that issue. Another one is that the type I diabetes, again the cells are for one reason or another not producing enough insulin internally when the blood vessels are not healthy. If you eat too much protein, then it causes the blood vessel wall to the capillary walls to become too thick and then they don't nourish the pancreatic cells and they might just die off or become weak or go into an inactive mode, which is more likely than dying because if they died you would have a dead corpse basically or corpses of dead cells decomposing in the pancreas and you wouldn't survive that. So when the pancreas is becoming dysfunctional then it is more that they are inactivated,-

RM: Okay.

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  • Thank You,Mister,for Writing The Dialogue into the Description,because I don't hear very clear,I hear well,but not very clear,not even in my native language,I don't know why. And writing at the description the Whole Dialogue is very useful to me.

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