Type 1 diabetes occurs when your immune system, the bodyâs system for fighting infection, attacks and destroys the insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas. Scientists think type 1 diabetes is caused by genes and environmental factors, such as viruses, that might trigger the disease.
Sassenach means stranger or outlander, and is a nickname that Jamie uses for Claire Beauchamp Randall Fraser. Also refers to persons of English descent. I am watching the outlander tv series . Let me say the storyline and tv show is amazing hats off to the author and actors that play the roles.
Plot summary. In 1946, after working apart during the Second World War, British Army nurse Claire Randall and her husband Frank, a history professor, go on a second honeymoon to Inverness, Scotland. Frank conducts research into his family history and Claire goes plant-gathering near standing stones on the hill of Craigh na Dun.