For two months or longer, I was putting off writing a post revisiting something I'd already written about before. Pathogens/invaders causing diabetes, essentially. I had been focused on toxoplasmosis more than anything. Consuming a Standard American Diet (SAD) of processed sugar and carbohydrates can cause hyperglycemia, which, according to a recent 2026 release by the CDC, is happening to 2 in 5 Americans via pre-diabetes and 1 in 8 Americans via full-blown diabetes. Hyperglycemia wrecks your immune system and provides the perfect breeding ground for these bad characters like toxoplasmosis.  My mind also always goes to the disease that robs many of their retirement years and life savings - Alzheimer's. Alzheimer's has been known as Type 3 diabetes in medical literature for some time now. Alzheimer's is linked to toxoplasmosis as well as impaired insulin signaling in the brain. I have also been meaning for years to write in depth about impaired glucose signaling in the ...