Diabetes cure?!

[Sriram]

Hi everyone,

Here is an article about how reducing fat in the pancreas by one gram can reverse type 2 diabetes.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/12/151201141231.htm

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A team from Newcastle University, UK, has shown that Type 2 diabetes is caused by fat accumulating in the pancreas -- and that losing less than one gram of that fat through weight loss reverses the diabetes.

Affecting two and a half million people in the UK -- and on the increase -- Type 2 diabetes is a long-term condition caused by too much glucose, a type of sugar, in the blood.

..the excess fat in the diabetic pancreas is specific to Type 2 diabetes and important in preventing insulin being made as normal. When that excess fat is removed, insulin secretion increases to normal levels. In other words, they were diabetes free.

"So if you ask how much weight you need to lose to make your diabetes go away, the answer is one gram! But that gram needs to be fat from the pancreas. At present the only way we have to achieve this is by calorie restriction by any means -- whether by diet or an operation."

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Interesting information.

Cheers.

Sriram

[Red Giant]

Tricky one.  Insulin and a low-carb diet could be a bad combination.  So does the doctor say, just stick to the diet and we'll skip the insulin?  Diets are hard.  If the patient doesn't stick to it, then a treatable condition gets left untreated.

[Sriram]

Identifying the fat in the pancreas as the possible cause of type 2 diabetes is a major step in finding a cure. Once this is established, the next step would be to find ways of reducing the fat in the pancreas specifically.....which may not be very difficult.  Once this is done, diabetes becomes curable!  A major breakthrough!