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Once that eye doctor can see diabetes in his eyes, he would be well on the path to various visitations which are not signs of diabetes, but rather complications of diabetes.My brother has a healthy weight and is a couple of years older than I am. He is in the diabetic range. He gets his eyes checked regularly and the doctor says there is no sign of diabetes.
On a population level, the explosion in DM incidence is likely best seen as lifestyle related. On an individual level, many stories such as yours and your brother's strongly suggest heredity. So does my experience. I am 75, have a 32" waist and my max waist in my entire life was 33. Yet if I started eating freely my A1C would soon migrate from its current sub-6 range to a diabetic range It could be that there are variants of the illness, I would guess that people such as we might have weaker insulin production, rather than the storybook type 2 which is plenty insulin but a great deal of resistance.
We are still to some extent flying blind on this illness.
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