Assume they're talking about Type 2...
Wow, hope it is true. My sister had to have the lower part of her leg amputated last year due to diabetes. I wonder if consuming foods high in capsacin could have similar effect?
It sure is, and a huge expense to the taxpayer via medicare and medicaid. If this pans out it will reshape the finances of the whole healthcare system.
This will make a major dent in Wilford Brimley's income. No more diabetes commercials for him. Now what are those mail order drug companies going to push to seniors in those annoying commercials?
This is wonderful news. There are 28 million diabetics in this country alone. The morbidity from diabetes is astounding ... everything from heart disease to peripheral vasuscular disease to required amputations to visual loss and stroke. The list seems endless. If this is ever able to be made into clinical application millions of lives will be made all the better. Insurance rates should drop dramatically. Qualities of life should be enhanced for millions upon millions of people. Little children with Type I disease could possibly live normal lives. I hope and pray this is possible.
I agree with you. I work for a doctor and the sheer number of diabetics as people age is astounding. Talk about a way to cut the cost of insurance, cure some of the diseases that create so much demand for care due to so many other illnesses that are an offshoot of diabetes.
I would love this to be true, BUT there is big money in diabeates and I wonder just with cancer and aids if they really want to find a full cure because the gravy trail will stop. I guess that is negative thinking, but someones I do wonder.
My daughter was diagnosed when she was 11 as a type 1 insulin dependent diabetic. It’s incredibly tough on children and it broke my heart to see even younger children than my daughter who were insulin dependent.
The doctors told us 6 year ago they thought a cure would be in about 15 years so it looks like they’re on track.
I pray a cure is found and in the meantime they find better ways than having to shoot up insulin 4 or more times a day. The new inhalers look as a good step in that direction.