Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease characterized by an attack on the pancreas, similar to other autoimmune conditions.

“type 1 diabetes is not as much about insulin resistance it's about autoimmune attack on the pancreas and this is mirroring other autoimmune disease that we see where the body will attack the brain or specifically the myelin sheath and neurons in multiple sclerosis or the thyroid in autoimmune thyroiditis which is also known as Hashimoto's thyroiditis generally speaking or the joints in rheumatoid arthritis or the skin and things like lupus or eczema or psoriasis so these is this is more of a classical autoimmune model”