History of Diabetes

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History of Diabetes
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History of Diabetes

• With its description as a lifestyle-related
  disorder, diabetes may seem to be an affliction
  of modern times a result of easy living,
  21st-century conveniences like the internet,
  packaged foods, etc.
• While diabetes has definitely mushroomed in these
  recent times, there are references to the disease
  dating back centuries.

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Early Origins of Diabetes

• The earliest mention of diabetes comes in the
  form of a papyrus scroll recorded by physician
  Hesy-Ra back in 1552 BC.
• Around the same time, a few other healers,
  Sushruta, Arataeus, and Thomas Willis, were known
  to be working on a treatment for diabetes.
• Other treatments of the time included alcohol and
  over-eating.
• These were prescribed to balance the loss of
  fluids, weight, etc.
• When that didnt work, healers were also known to
  advise starvation diets.

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Discovery of Other Symptoms Type 1 Diabetes

• Moving down the centuries to 980 AD, there is a
  record of a Persian healer, Avicenna who gave a
  detailed account of diabetes mellitus, in which
  he described symptoms like frequent urination,
  and decline of sexual functions

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Role of the Pancreas

• Then in 1889, Joseph von Mering Oskar Minkowski
  identified the role of the pancreas in diabetes.
• They appear to have done this through a rather
  brutal process of elimination
• they found that when the pancreas was removed
  from healthy dogs, they developed the symptoms of
  diabetes.

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Discovery of Insulin

• Finally, in 1910 the role of insulin was
  identified by Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer.
• He gave it the name insulinfrom the Latin word
  insula, meaning island.

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Use of Insulin as Medication

• In 1920, taking Mering and Minkowskis discovery
  forward, two scientists, Sir Fredrick Grant
  Banting and Charles Herbert Best used an extract
  from the Islets of Langerhans in the pancreas to
  successfully reverse induced diabetes in dogsa
  major relief for canines.

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Categorizing Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes

• In 1936, Sir Harold Percival Himsworth published
  a treatise in which type 1 and type 2 were
  identified as different forms of the same
  disease.
• It is the first recorded instance of its kind.

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Reversing Diabetes

• Treatment of diabetes has come a long way.
• Every day we learn more about diabetes and also
  the ways to treat it.
• Pioneers like Dr. Neal Barnard, Gabriel Cousenz,
  Joel Fuhrman, and in India, FFDs very own, Dr.
  Pramod Tripathi evolved protocols that enabled
  diabetics, many of them under heavy medication
  and suffering from other diabetes-related
  complications, to reverse their condition
  naturally.

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