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Background: My Polish wife comes from a family where everybody lives 90 to 100 years. Very healthy and long lived people.

Now, I am a Type 2 diabetic since age 15. For the past 3 years, my wife is suddenly diabetic. There is no diabetes in her entire extended family. Never have been, not ever.

Her sister was an RN nurse for thirty years before getting breast cancer and being forced to retire. Nobody in that extended family has ever had breast cancer.

This got me wondering about how one acquires a 'hereditary' disease. Is it really hereditary, diet, environmental or could it be from exposure? My mom was diabetic. Did I inherit it (common wisdom) or could it be transmissible? Nobody believes that one catches diabetes. Same with breast cancer. But what if we're wrong?

The nurse dealt with cancer patients for decades. I dealt with a diabetic mother my entire childhood. My wife dealt with me for 25 years. I am probably mistaken, but I do find these anomalies to be noteworthy.

So my question for all of you is: Do any of you ever see indications of diseases transmitted inexplicably to people by exposure? Keep in mind, everything most people believe about health comes from a (((possibly biased))) medical industry.

What say you?

Background: My Polish wife comes from a family where everybody lives 90 to 100 years. Very healthy and long lived people. Now, I am a Type 2 diabetic since age 15. For the past 3 years, my wife is suddenly diabetic. There is no diabetes in her entire extended family. Never have been, not ever. Her sister was an RN nurse for thirty years before getting breast cancer and being forced to retire. Nobody in that extended family has ever had breast cancer. ------------------------------------------- This got me wondering about how one acquires a 'hereditary' disease. Is it really hereditary, diet, environmental or could it be from exposure? My mom was diabetic. Did I inherit it (common wisdom) or could it be transmissible? Nobody believes that one catches diabetes. Same with breast cancer. But what if we're wrong? The nurse dealt with cancer patients for decades. I dealt with a diabetic mother my entire childhood. My wife dealt with me for 25 years. I am probably mistaken, but I do find these anomalies to be noteworthy. So my question for all of you is: Do any of you ever see indications of diseases transmitted inexplicably to people by exposure? Keep in mind, everything most people believe about health comes from a (((possibly biased))) medical industry. What say you?

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Type 2 Diabetes is entirely acquired through diet. You can have a genetic predisposition, but it's always about the amount of starch and sugar you are eating. If you switch to a ketogenic diet (which one doesn't matter much) and actually stick to it, the diabetes will go away.

You may have such a strong disposition that it's going to come back whenever you eat any amount of starch or sugar, but while you are eliminating those, the diabetes will go away.

Not discounting gut flora and epigenetics (both are huge factors that we are just barely getting to the heart of) but for diabetes specifically its diet.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Very well recognized understanding on the matter. What brings me to post is that there is zero diabetes or cancer in my wife's family tree, but here we are. Just my speculations.

My daughter in New Jersey works for a prestigious animal hospital and tells me how often the pets and owners share medical situations, and most of them feed their pets higher end pet foods, not scraps. So, who knows!

Am getting many comments here and elsewhere on these matters. As for myself, I do not ever trust medical professionals about human health.