Has there been a study on what nationality tends to get MC, CC, Type 1 diabetes and other autoimmune diseases? I remember working on the diabetic floor at our hospital and a doctor explained to our group that Type 1 diabetes effects mostly northern Europeans. I know Dystonia effects everyone except blacks. My world-famous neurologist informed me on that one. Whites don't get Sickle Cell Anemia which is a horrible disease with extreme screaming pain and only blacks are effected. It's awful!
I was wondering why we are so different. All three of my autoimmune diseases originate from my Irish background.
I'm curious and since I love medicine, I would like to understand, WHY? Why does one nationality get a disease and other nationality groups escape the slaughter.
I have a lot of Cherokee, Shawnee, Iroquois, Creek and Mohawk American Indian in my blood but I'm not effected by Type II diabetes, drinking problems and depression. My brother has more Native American Indian blood in his veins and has severe depression, drinking and I think Type II diabetes. Genetics is a wild card and a mysterious study.
Do you think they'll ever find a cure for all these autoimmune diseases? Thanks, Dorothy Rockwell Olson
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Hi Dorothy,
Yep, Ireland ranks very high on the list of countries where gluten sensitivity is most prevalent. The Celts, the British, and residents of the Scandinavian countries and Italy also have a high rate of gluten sensitivity. I'm not sure how Germany ranks. My dad was German, and I don't believe his family had the problem. My mother had Czech heritage, and she had either celiac disease of MC (neither was ever diagnosed back in those days), or both, so naturally I inherited a digestive system from her. I may be a celiac, also — I've never been tested.
I seriously doubt that medical science will ever find a cure for any AI diseases because they make way too much money treating them with drugs. It's a dietary issue, and they never research any dietary treatments, so they'll never be able to develop any treatment other than powerful and expensive drugs.
Tex
Yep, Ireland ranks very high on the list of countries where gluten sensitivity is most prevalent. The Celts, the British, and residents of the Scandinavian countries and Italy also have a high rate of gluten sensitivity. I'm not sure how Germany ranks. My dad was German, and I don't believe his family had the problem. My mother had Czech heritage, and she had either celiac disease of MC (neither was ever diagnosed back in those days), or both, so naturally I inherited a digestive system from her. I may be a celiac, also — I've never been tested.
I seriously doubt that medical science will ever find a cure for any AI diseases because they make way too much money treating them with drugs. It's a dietary issue, and they never research any dietary treatments, so they'll never be able to develop any treatment other than powerful and expensive drugs.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
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Genetics and autoimmune diseases
Thanks Tex for the heads up on the autoimmune diseases. My Irish grandmother Cassidy died from stomach cancer at age 70. That's always in the back of my mind. The Cassidy clan is not a healthy bunch and died young. I know I get my autoimmune diseases from her. Well, we're all going to die of something. Dorothy