Microbes

The NY Times has an interesting article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/science/13micro.html

If you've paid attention to medical science then you've probably noticed that it mostly operates on fear and ignorance. My mom once asked me why doctors wouldn't tell her about herbal remedies. My answer was that Christianity had demonized the witches, and medicine has continued to carry that torch. Years back I saw a scientific paper on detecting pregnancy. Some amazingly smart "scientist" had discovered what everyone has known for thousands of years (the Greeks were the first to writ it down). But now that a paper had been written on it, it was actually real.

So anyway. The what-if question. What if diabetes is just a problem with intestinal fauna just like that woman in the article had?