Cure for Diabetes?

[manlymatt83]

CHICAGO - A new study gives the strongest evidence yet that obesity surgery can cure diabetes.

Patients who had surgery to reduce the size of their stomachs were five times more likely to see their diabetes disappear over the next two years than were patients who had standard diabetes care, according to Australian researchers.

Most of the surgery patients were able to stop taking diabetes drugs and achieve normal blood tests.

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[jhu]

or just lose weight, if you have that condition

 

[paulxcook]

Makes sense, since that surgery is used to help people lose weight quickly, and weight loss has long been linked with diabetes relief.

 

[pkme2]

I'm all for it.
Been away for awhile, rehabing from a diabetes complication and did the physical theraphy to get my Bioquest foot.
Keeping in shape really keeps the blood sugars down and proper dieting really makes sense to me now.
Yes, if we really could recognize the signs before the inevitable. Keep being positive.

 

[Codewiz]

My wife weights 120lbs at 5'4". I think this might help with people who have diabetes from obesity but not people like my wife. She suffers from PCOS and that condition is caused by insulin resistance and the cause really isn't know.

 

[blackangst1]

Should be worth mentioning this is for Type II. Im not sure why type I and II are both considered diabetes, as they are COMPETELY different diseases. But for type I...not even close to a cure. Science isnt even sure yet what the cause is.

 

[jhu]

Originally posted by: blackangst1
Should be worth mentioning this is for Type II. Im not sure why type I and II are both considered diabetes, as they are COMPETELY different diseases. But for type I...not even close to a cure. Science isnt even sure yet what the cause is.

it's diabetes mellitus and is called as such because the end result is elevated blood sugar levels. now whether that's due to insulin resistance or pancreatic islet cell destruction is what differentiates type i and type ii. then there's diabetes insipidus, which can be due to pituitary or kidney issues. so really, you should be calling the disease "diabetes mellitus" and not just "diabetes"

 

[blackangst1]

Originally posted by: jhu

Originally posted by: blackangst1
Should be worth mentioning this is for Type II. Im not sure why type I and II are both considered diabetes, as they are COMPETELY different diseases. But for type I...not even close to a cure. Science isnt even sure yet what the cause is.

it's diabetes mellitus and is called as such because the end result is elevated blood sugar levels. now whether that's due to insulin resistance or pancreatic islet cell destruction is what differentiates type i and type ii. then there's diabetes insipidus, which can be due to pituitary or kidney issues. so really, you should be calling the disease "diabetes mellitus" and not just "diabetes"

Yes, I know. Type I is not due to insulin resistance. It is the loss of beta cells of the islets of Langerhans, as you said. In other words, theyre dead. Type 2 can be resistance though.

But of course you are correct. Type I is diabetes mellitus.