I live with Type 1 diabetes. It's not the diabetes you often hear about because Type 1 only accounts for 10 percent of people with diabetes. In Type 1 diabetes patients inject insulin so that their bodies can use food for energy.
People, like me, living with Type 1 diabetes require insulin injections on a daily basis to live. People with Type 2 diabetes develop diabetes slowly, take pills to correct problems and can often control diabetes with excersise and diet. Type 2 diabetes get much more attention. It is associated with lifestyle choices and is quite an epidemic nationwide.
Doctors studied how successful patients with very tight control of blood sugar were compared to people with pretty tight control. All research before this study supports the idea that the tighter control you have the better. The closer a diabetic person is to a person without the healthier. Makes sense.
This study tosses all that logic. In fact, it tosses it aside so much that the study was stopped. That's big.
I certainly do not know if this applies to me. Doctors and tons of other smart people are still making sense of it. But there is something to it.
Our best sensibilities were wrong. How can that be? I'm not sure, but I'm hoping the science of rethinking what we think brings us someplace sweet.
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