Other Theories

VAGUE, NARROWLY FOCUSED, HORMONAL

Vague: None of the other theories that I know of propose exactly how you get from A to B, from a malfunction somewhere to diabetes on the other end. There's always some "we're not exactly sure how it works, but" to it. For instance, if visceral fat leads to diabetes but hip fat does not, what's in visceral fat that is different, and how exactly does it do its nasty business? What are the steps?  And how is it RYGB operations resolve diabetes before visceral fat diminishes significantly?

Narrowly Focused: You'd think that if something were vague, it would be broadly applicable, cast a wide net. Yet, the other theories, the ones I know about, do not seem to address the diabetics who are not in the category of diabetes reversal the theory addresses. For instance, if belly fat causes diabetes, why do people with RYGB bypass resolve their diabetes before they lose belly fat? If RYGB resolves diabetes because of an absence of hormones released into the chyme by the duodenum, or because of an abundance of hormones released into the chyme by the ilium, why do people who lose a lot of weight without rearranging their small intestines also resolve diabetes? It's as if there was more than one way to defeat the same disease. But how exactly do these very different ways produce the same result (see "Vague")?

Hormonal: No one else, that I know of, proposes a direct, physical cause of diabetes. Everybody is talking about chemical signals (hormones). The theory seems to be that these hormonal causes must exist, though they haven't been nailed down yet. An analogy would be the way scientists discovered Pluto. There were irregularities in the orbit of Uranus, so they posited that there must be another heavenly body out there causing them. In the case of Uranus, they were right. Pluto was out there. Whether the mysterious diabetes hormone(s) is(are) out there remains unproven. Perhaps they do not exist, just as "the ether" did not exist, although it was expected to have existed.

The pressure theory can be vague, but can be quite specific, too (kinked arteries). It goes across most categories of people who have Type 2 diabetes, and it doesn't rely on hormones.