Chinese scientists develop cure for diabetes, insulin patient becomes medicine-free in just 3 months
Chinese scientists develop cure for diabetes, insulin patient becomes medicine-free in just 3 months
Chinese scientists achieve diabetes cure through innovative cell therapy, detailed in Cell Discovery. Patient, treated in July 2021, no longer requires insulin after eleven weeks, and is now medication-free for 33 months. The breakthrough, praised by Timothy Kieffer, signifies a major advancement in...
So this is neat. Potentially life changing for some type 2 diabetics, but that depends because some t2 diabetics are not failing to make enough insulin, they're just no longer sensitive to it at a level that makes it functional for them. I suppose it's possible that this therapy could cause them to grow enough islet β cells to overcome their lack of sensitivity, but (and I'm a type 1, not a type 2, so maybe my info is incorrect here) that lack of sensitivity can grow with further exposure to insulin making this a stop-gap at best for those cases absent other therapies.
...and with all of that said, being able to regrow islet β cells has never really been the problem for type 1 diabetes. You can regrow all the islet β cells you'd like and it's not going to cure the underlying immune disease that has caused your immune system to kill off all of your islet β cells to begin with. Unless you can figure out why t1 diabetes causes one's own immune system to go psycho killer on their islet β cells, you've done nothing to "cure" diabetes. Without being able to suppress that impulse for your immune system to murder your own cells, any ability to replace the islet β cells is going to be temporary at best, and probably a waste on the whole.
My brother in law is a "cured" type 1 diabetic, by virtue of his having had a kidney replacement and being on immune suppressing drugs for that. Since they were already replacing the kidney and he was going to have to take immune system suppression medications for that, they also just replaced his pancreas at the same time and the suppression of his immune system has allowed the new pancreas to thrive and continue to make insulin. Easy-peasy. The only trade-off is that he is super immunocompromised and can be killed by common colds, so not a great strategy in general.
Just as a heads up, this source has failed fact checks.
Destroy corporate healthcare by curing diabetes.
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I do hope that the science is true, but the website doesn't seem to be credible when it comes to news reporting https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-economic-times/
Oh crap! If this is true then avoid spending a ton of money in insulin supplies each year could give an actual reason to politicians for reducing the healthcare state budget, which they normally do at every occasion just without a proper explanation... I don't know if my mind is ready for rationality in politics /s
What are the odds we'll get this in America in the next 20 years? Or that insurance will cover it? I mean we live in for-profit medical hell. They actually have weight loss drugs that like 7/10ths of Americans need, but a month's worth cost over $1,000 out of pocket. Insulin is already stupidly overpriced and there's no financial incentive to cure it, so why would they? The insurance and pharma companies aren't in the business of helping people. If they were there be non-proffits (for a start). Instead they get as much federal subsidy money as possible and then still charge $1,000 a month that insurance might cover if you're lucky or rich enough to even have any that's worth a damn.
So yeah, cool story, but here in America this won't make any difference. Maybe in 50 years it'll be affordable, we'll see.
Great work. 👍
Maybe I will eat that quart of ice cream today...
yeahhhh we'll see about that
Mexico developed the cure many centuries ago. First you tie the person to a large log. Then smaller logs are placed around the person. Oh man I forgot what you're supposed to do with the tinder and matches. But some research could help. It cures all sorts of stuff. Not good for burns or preexisting death from what I gathered.