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May 1st, 2016 


Autoimmunity and Insulin Resistance

At the end of May, I’ll be doing a talk at the Canadian Holistic Health Association’s annual meeting. The talk is on Autoimmunity and Insulin Resistance.

I’ve collected a few articles that might be of interest.

Usually we just think about type 1 diabetes as autoimmune; however, recent studies suggest an autoimmune connection with type 2 diabetes as well.

Here are a couple of articles.

  1. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18556968  Zhou P, Ten S, Sinha S, Ramchandani N, Vogiatzi M, Maclaren N. Insulin receptor autoimmunity and insulin resistance. J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab. 2008 Apr;21(4):369-75.
  2. http://www.drsharma.ca/obesity-is-type-2-diabetes-and-autoimmune-disease
  3. https://www.nahypothyroidism.org/insulin-resistance-can-trigger-hashimotos-disease/
  4. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3543968/
  5. https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2011/04/type-2-diabetes-linked-to-autoimmune-reaction-in-study.html

 

Edmonton, Alberta: Winer DA, Winer S, Shen L, Wadia PP, Yantha J, Paltser G, Tsui H, Wu P, Davidson MG, Alonso MN, Leong HX, Glassford A, Caimol M, Kenkel JA, Tedder TF, McLaughlin T, Miklos DB, Dosch HM, & Engleman EG (2011). B cells promote insulin resistance through modulation of T cells and production of pathogenic IgG antibodies. Nature medicine PMID: 21499269′.

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