Parkinson’s disease ‘may start in gut’

Re:Parkinson’s disease ‘may start in gut’ by jawngee on Friday December 02, 2016 @08:44AM (#13088446)

    Could diabetes be analogous to Parkinson's? Diabetics 
    generally have lost the ability to process carbs (usually 
    by eating too many);

No.

I'm assuming you are talking about type 2, which has nothing to do with the ability to process carbs but instead resistance to insulin. This is caused by so many different factors like genes, medications, stress, smoking, high intake of certain types of fats, lack of exercise, white rice, pollution, etc.

You can't be talking about type 1 because you'd be absurdly wrong if you were.

Source: parent of type 1 diabetic

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Re:Parkinson’s disease ‘may start in gut’ by andy_ppp on Friday December 02, 2016 @09:16AM (#13088658)

Are you seriously arguing that eating excessively processed carbs and sugar doesn't lead to insulin resistance?

What about if I was to start injecting large amounts of insulin regularly?

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Re:Parkinson’s disease ‘may start in gut’ by bonesinger on Friday December 02, 2016 @09:30AM (#13088757)

Hes pointing out that what you said was factually incorrect. Diabetics don't lose the ability to process carbs at all.

Carbs are broken down along with proteins and fats. What Type 2 diabetes entails is glucose building up in the bloodstream with no real way to utilize it due to insulin resistance.

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Re:Parkinson’s disease ‘may start in gut’ by andy_ppp on Friday December 02, 2016 @09:32AM (#13088768)

Er... you are just assuming by process I mean digest.

To be clear:

> glucose building up in the bloodstream with no real way to utilize it

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Inability to process carbs and sugar. Maybe your description is more accurate.

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Re:Parkinson’s disease ‘may start in gut’ by bonesinger on Friday December 02, 2016 @09:49AM (#13088919)

Using the term "inability to process carbs and sugar" is misleading and totally not the same thing as insulin resistance.

Its generally assumed that processing carbs is the act of digestion. You're using the word processed in the wrong situation here.

EDIT: Also you can still process carbs, you just can't utilize glucose in the blood as a diabetic.

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Re:Parkinson’s disease ‘may start in gut’ by andy_ppp on Friday December 02, 2016 @10:08AM (#13089101)

Okay, so if I replace "process" with "utilise" we are good?

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Re:Parkinson’s disease ‘may start in gut’ by imdsm on Friday December 02, 2016 @10:26AM (#13089291)

Yeah I'm with you on this. If someone assumes by one word you mean another word, and by using the other word, you're wrong, well, I think their logic is flawed.

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Re:Parkinson’s disease ‘may start in gut’ by bonesinger on Friday December 02, 2016 @10:39AM (#13089443)

I guess, sorry if I am coming across as touchy. I'm a diabetic and there is a ton of misinformation out there about it!

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Re:Parkinson’s disease ‘may start in gut’ by o_____________o on Friday December 02, 2016 @01:24PM (#13090949)

It's nice to see amicable resolutions online.

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