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Communist China Just Cured Diabetes and America's Insulin Industry is Not Happy About it
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this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2026
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This isn't a cure for type 2, it's a cure for type 1. Lifestyle has very little effect on type 1. You just don't have enough insulin, sometimes you don't have any, and usually it's a result of an autoimmune disease or genetic issue.
In the actual study, the subject had Type 2 diabetes, and the authors note that treating Type 1 will be much more difficult due to the immunology involved
Agreed, the article says all of this but it doesn't make a lot of sense. This is generally the mindset everyone has been using to treat type 1. Type 1 is about production, type 2 is about resistance. This treatment doesn't address resistance, it just makes more insulin. More insulin is not more better, and has consequences.
I'm sorry, I just assumed that cancer of a site got it wrong, and then went on to assume it was another example where someone had and autoimmune disease, and then had their immune system reset via something like chemo. The pancreas in such cases is still roached, so adding new insulin producing cells makes sense.
Type 2 is caused by insulin resistance. And yeah, more insulin can help, but I'd not call it a cure. A cure is reversing the resistance.
The article says T2.