Today it is popular to believe that a diabetes gene is responsible for Type 1 diabetes. But genetics alone can only account for a small percentage of cases. Cows milk and vaccinations have been implicated.

The China Study has shed light on the diabetes gene, and its relationship to Type 1 diabetes.  The worldwide prevalence of Type 1 diabetes is increasing at the rate of 3% per year; genes cannot be responsible for this rapid increase.

When one of identical twins gets Type 1 diabetes, there is only a 13 to 33% chance of the other one getting it, even though both of the twins have identical genes. If it were all due to genes, close to 100% of the twins would get it. Plus, the 13 to 33% chance that the other twin will get it may be due to the sharing of a common environment or diet.

On the other hand, the consumption of cows milk has shown an almost perfect correlation with the incidence of Type 1 diabetes in children age 0 to 14 years. The greater the consumption, the greater the incidence of Type 1 diabetes.

When people migrate from an area of low incidence of diabetes, to an area of high incidence, these people take on the incidence of the group they move to. This shows that, even if they have the gene necessary for Type 1 diabetes to occur, the environment or diet must be there to trigger it; genes do not act alone; there has to be a trigger in order to have an effect.

Dr. J. Bart Classen, an immunologist at Classen Immunotherapies, implicated childhood vaccinations with Type 1 diabetes. He presented data that vaccines cause approximately 80% of cases of insulin dependent diabetes in children who have received multiple vaccines starting after 2 month of life. This included vaccines for pertussis, mumps, rubella, hepatitis B, hemophilus influenza and others. Disease may not develop until four or more years after being vaccinated. For more information, see here.

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