Is Type 2 Diabetes an Autoimmune Disease?

December 1, 2022

Historically speaking, type 2 diabetes has always been recognized as a metabolic disorder, often triggered by lifestyle behaviors and genetics. As opposed to type 1 diabetes, which is an autoimmune disease (with no known prevention and no cure), prediabetes and type 2 diabetes were always viewed by researchers as something to “prevent”. But more research…