Remember, I'm just playing around with ideas. This scheme is not something that has been tested, and for all I know, there might be experiments that prove that it couldn't work. I'm sure reality is much more complex. But it's a way of trying to understand why some type 2s do show anti-GAD antibodies, why diabetes of both types shows up in the same families, why LADA is similar to but different from type 1, and why rates of both types of diabetes are increasing in the modern world. They must share some common cause.

This type of intellectual exercise has no practical application, and maybe I'm wasting my time thinking about it when I could be doing more useful things like hoovering the living room rug, but I find it more interesting than doing crossword puzzles. Maybe playing with ideas like this will help delay the onset of senility that Time Magazine says is nipping at my heels.