Diabetes Mellitus and Tuberculosis: The Science of Denial by Dr. Lawrence Broxmeyer
Diabetes Mellitus and Tuberculosis Summary The thought that tuberculosis and its family of mycobacteria could cause diabetes seems farfetched, but is not. If this weren't true, then why would the Massachusetts General Hospital recently announce human trials with dilute cow tuberculosis (BCG) to attempt cure of type 1 juvenile diabetes, a disease historically thought by some to be caused by human tuberculosis. In nature, strains of tuberculosis, animal or human, have long been known to compete, change and destroy one another. And they do this through attack with their viral mycobacteriophage armament, which live inside all…
