Autoimmunity is a bit more complex than you might think. If you’re reading this you probably already have at least a little bit of an idea of what an autoimmune disease is: It’s when your body attacks itself. Unfortunately, that’s drastically oversimplifying the problem. There are little-known underlying causes of autoimmunity and much more complicated descriptions of what it really is.
There is a multitude of conditions that affect diabetes. Leaky gut is one of those conditions; some theorize that you can’t even have type 2 diabetes without also having a leaky gut. Moreover, not only could it cause diabetes, it can also perpetually make it worse.
In 2010, diabetes was the seventh leading cause of death in the US, according to the American Diabetes Association. During that year, over 69,000 death certificates of Americans listed diabetes as the underlying cause of death.
The Timothy Litzenburg law firm currently represents over 500 people with non-Hodgkin lymphoma suing Monsanto, the manufacturer of Roundup, because they believe this glyphosate-based herbicide caused their cancer.
More than 29 million people in the United States have diabetes, and that number grows by approximately 1.4 million each year.