Glycogen Storage Disease is the description of the enzyme deficiency that prevents glycogen from being released. Their are many different areas of the body where glycogen is stored. That is how the different types are classified; I have type 1A, one that affects the liver. Type 1 was defined by Dr. von Gierke in 1935 and sub-classed A and B in the 1980’s with liver biopsies. People with 1A are missing the enzyme that is used in the three step process breaking down Glycogen, the body’s energy reserves, in to glucose, usable fuel.
When someone asks me what I have because I’m doing something to maintain my blood glucose like drinking a white liquid or checking my blood glucose they usually add in “Diabetes?” The reason for this web site is because we as a disease have no one famous to be our spokesperson. There are too few of us to have a big business do a national good will or public awareness campaign. So here I go using the world wide web to find that 6th degree of separation to promote my disease into the headlines and talk shows. My goal is to educate the public, health care professionals, and insurance companies, that other metabolic disorders use Blood Glucose levels to monitor their health. Through a successful public awareness campaign funds and public support can be raised to facilitate additional GSD dog model gene therapy cures. That will lead to a human cure.