Cold Exposure and Diabetes – By Art De Vany

So, we may have two theories of diabetes: type 1 as an adaptation to cold and type 2 as an original hunter gatherer population more recently adapted to argriculture. But, cold adaptation may play a part in the latter form of diabetes as well. The cold-adapted, late agriculture-adopting populations may have a double exposure to type 2 diabetes. I think this is my preferred theory, which to my knowledge has not been proposed in the literature.

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Without looking into this in more detail, it is not really possible to form a sharp, testable distinction between these theories. But, there do seem to be some caveats to the degree to which we should use cold exposure as a health or body composition intervention.