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Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

So John, how much of diabetes is genetic?
Does it run in your family?

Type 1 diabetes is tricky. Type 2 diabetes is very clearly caused by genetics, age, and/or lifestyle. They know that type one diabetes is not caused by your lifestyle or age, however, it is not clearly genetic either. I am the only person in my family with type one diabetes, but some families seem to have multiple type one diabetics. They don't know what causes diabetes, but it is clearly autoimmune. Something causes the immune system to attack the insulin producing cells. Some argue it is caused by a lack of vitamin d, some say it is because our environment has been made so clean the immune system no longer has to spend its time attacking so many foreign invaders that it decides to kill time by attacking the bodies own parts, others say it is strictly genetics. But at the end of the day, we still don't know.