Cure for diabetes (WAS: Request for helpful info)

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> A cure to me is some treatment

> that changes your pancreas.

(I am feeling confrontational again, Phyllis, so I am going to try to

give you something to bite on - just to start the year off right!)

The change need not necessarily involve the pancreas, though. There

is a lot of research going on in transplanting just fresh beta cells

into the liver where they can generate insulin that would do the job

in the same way, or so I heard. Those beta cells could be taken from

a donor or manufactured from stem cells, I presume. That would be a

cure, wouldn't it?

With Type 2 diabetes, the pancreas is usually still functioning.

Finding a fix for insulin resistance need not involve the pancreas at

all, right?

> For the rest of your life you can

> eat all you want and anything you want,

You can " eat all you want and anything you want " right now - provided

you don't " want " to eat the wrong food and don't " want " to eat too

much of it, but that applies to non-diabetics, too.

Diabetes is not the worst thing that can be caused by bad eating

habits (if diabetes even IS caused by it - and I don't believe that

has been proven yet).

You could just as easily argue that people ARE non-diabetics because

they DON'T eat all they " want " of anything they " want " , or even

because they don't " want " too much of anything.

My wife is a full-blown Type 2 diabetic and underweight. I have to

force food on her so that she won't fade away completely but she

always says she doesn't " want " any more so you could say she eats

MORE than she " wants " and of MORE different foods than she " wants "

(10-15% of Type 2s are said to be underweight).

> take no meds and have a perfectly

> normal blood sugar level!

There are other things to take meds for than diabetes! And it may not

be necessary to have " perfectly normal " blood sugar levels in a

Western civilization!

> No fasting, no vitamins, no exercise,

> no mediation etc. Just like people who

> don't have diabetes!

I doubt that - no exercise at all will eventually wreak havoc for non-

diabetics, too. Think of the astronauts. They are in perfect health

but on space trips of more than a few weeks, they have to exercise

hard, or else they lose tone quickly. The human body was made to keep

moving and keep doing work against a load, it seems. Lay about all

day and diabetes is definitely not the worst thing that will happen

to you.

> A cure is what I pray for.

If you mean " pray " in a Christian sense, then I always thought that

believing is what gets results, not praying for some personal benefit!

> All the rest is just treatment.

I call it " management " , though.

> There is no cure for diabetes that I know of.

Certain to come in the next 100 years - I bet you a bowl of boiled

potatoes!

That's enough confrontation for me tonight, I ate too much today and

have been sitting at the computer for hours - time to go to bed!