Re: Diabetes and Aging

I think it would be a fascinating study - but as usual, there are so
many variables that I'm not sure anyone can come to a single
conclusion. Even that diabetes ages us faster than others.
As usual, anecdotal example which skews the theory:
I'm 78 with Type 2. My father died at 77, no diabetes, heart attack.
My mother died at 73, no diabetes, heart attack. My sister died at 73.
no diabetes, melanoma. My half-brother died at 76, Type 1 diabetes,
heart attack.

So - did I luck out on genes? Did Type 2 make me more conscious of my
health? Thinking back over the years in asd, many of us have said we
cared for ourselves better knowing that we had to - or drop dead.

My old carcass creaks.....but lives. Like a Model-T, rust on the
fenders but the motor turn over.

Nan, Type 2 since 1990.

wmmckee@xxxxxxx wrote:
Hello Friends,

Do any of you ever wonder why it is that some of seem to be aging more
rapidly than some of our non-diabetic peers?

Well, as you know, we diabetics are very subject to inflammations. Indeed,
that is an area of major interest for me, since I experienced crippling
inflammations in my legs and feet at around the time of diagnosis, and I
also had a frozen shoulder.... Many of you have experienced the same things,
and worse.

In recent days, we have seen several posts on the subject of the causes of
inflammations, and how homocysteine, cytokines, c-reactive proteins,
glycosated hemoglobin, interleukin, etc. all come into play in the
inflammatory process.... Here is an abstract of an article that discusses
the relationship of inflammatory cytokines to aging in what is termed
"inflamm-aging".... Certainly, the idea would seem to make sense.

http://tinyurl.com/laybs


More links to other articles about this:

http://www.annalsnyas.org/cgi/content/abstract/908/1/244

Will, T2

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