2023 Preview: Gaba! Biofilms! Taurine! And much more. But First: More Warnings of Substantial Rise of Type 2 Diabetes in Youth

Quick message today. I'm currently gathering all of the research articles I've compiled for my upcoming posts about GABA and biofilms, which will be two of the more important topics I ever write about on here. First, another sad Medscape post: "More Warnings of Substantial Rise of Type 2 Diabetes in Youth." A call to action.

"We know that type 2 diabetes in adolescents and young adults has increased tremendously over the last 30 years, whereas we really didn't see type 2 diabetes in children and youth just 30 years ago," said Daniel Hsia, MD. 

"Hsia noted that the American Diabetes Association has screening recommendations for youth, noting that it can begin as young as 10 years of age in cases where there are risk factors, such as a family history of diabetes or elevated body mass index." 

In my opinion - forget BMI, forget family history - I had none of the typical risk factors. Sugar and junk food consumption are the only risk factors that need to be taken into account. That certainly expands the at-risk classification and impels a paradigm shift. Only the end of addiction to, in line with poisonous drugs, unquestionably poisonous foods, will we cease the rampant acceleration of diabetes in children and youth, the 1 in 3 American adults predicted to be diabetic in the near future. Beginning in childhood, everyone should have HOMA-IR screening, glucose tolerance tests, HbA1c. It is imperative that these tests become standard of care.

"We want to be able to identify these patients who are at highest risk early because we know that treating diabetes is a lot harder than preventing diabetes, so given all of this data, if we can identify these patients ahead of time or at an earlier age we can definitely intervene and provide them with resources," Hsia told Medscape Medical News.  "People die of diabetes, but by and large, people die of the complications from diabetes, so that's kidney failure, cardiovascular disease. So you can already see if someone has diabetes in their teenage years, 20 years later, in their 30s or 40s, they could already be at risk for having a heart attack or stroke or some other major cardiovascular event."

Relentlessly optimistic, I am blessed to share more of my fascinating research explorations with you in the coming year. Cheers to healing, health and blazing light in the face of darkness.