[Hammer]

Well, just knowing how diabetes works is enough to indicate that diabetes can be triggered by various medications or exposure to certain chemicals. Think about it, for anyone who was born without diabetes, was diabetes free for years, then one day they're suddenly diabetic. Apparently their pancreas was working fine till that day, as was their body's use of insulin. They weren't low on insulin and their body didn't reject the insulin....everything worked fine till that day, so what caused things to change?

Anything that alters your body chemistry (drugs) could cause this to happen, so it's not a stretch to think that some medication that you took or some chemical that you were exposed to, could have caused this change.

They say that your DNA has a lot to do with your susceptibility to getting diabetes, but if you didn't have it before and you suddenly have it now, then something else was added to the mix, otherwise, why would your DNA suddenly change something on it's own and cause you to develop diabetes? There had to be outside elements that caused this. It could be your weight, lack of exercise, or something that you did to yourself, but why did it start now and not a year ago when you were still overweight and didn't exercise?

The fact that they think that gastric bypass surgery is effective in "curing" type 2 diabetes is due to bypassing a section of your intestine, and what happens in this section of the intestine relates to absorption of foods and the releasing of certain elements that can interfere with your body's ability to effectively use insulin, means that anything that affects this section of the intestine can initiate the onset of diabetes. That's not to say that it will initiate the onset of diabetes, but that it can.

I don't think it's a conspiracy, but it probably is a lack of knowledge about how certain drugs affect certain processes in the body that are unrelated to what the drug was designed for that might be causing diabetes to develop in people, years after they've taken the drug. I mean, if you took Nexium for acid reflux and it stopped your acid reflux, but while it was doing that, it also chemically altered your stomach pump that was producing the excess acid, and by altering the stomach pump, your digestive process had to digest the food with less acid causing your entire digestive process to change, and this change caused your intestine to have to digest the food differently since it now had less acid to work with, then this change might be what caused the onset of diabetes. The thing is, how would you be able to connect the two things together? There would be too many processes involved to clearly see how taking Nexium brought on diabetes. This is what I mean by the lack of knowledge. Add to this the fact that it might take years before one process causes a significant change in another process, and it makes it even more difficult to tie things together.