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Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?

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  1. epcoa · · focus · HN ↗
    "Some day, your immune system may decide to attack your pancreas."

    Immune attack of the pancreas is usually a disease of youth. Type 2 diabetes which is overwhelmingly the diabetes associated with aging is not an autoimmune disease.

    1. joshmarinacci · · focus · HN ↗
      Adult onset Type 1 has become a lot more common in recent decades. Ask me how I know.
      1. lazyasciiart · · focus · HN ↗
        Isn't that why it got renamed from juvenile diabetes?
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