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Type 2 diabetes: New treatment eliminates insulin for 86% of patients

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196 points amichail | 1 comments | 17 Oct 24 20:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.343s | source
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jasonpeacock ◴[17 Oct 24 21:46 UTC] No.41874143[source]▶
How long does this cure last until the unhealthy diet & lifestyle that originally caused the insulin resistance bring it back again?

It's frustrating, as Type 2 diabetes is 100% manageable through diet. You don't even have to exercise, just eat healthy. Today, with the use of continuous glucose monitors, you have all the data you need to make informed diet decisions - you know exactly what "eat healthy" means for your body.

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sctb ◴[17 Oct 24 22:06 UTC] No.41874297[source]▶
Not sarcasm: I'm sure it would be frustrating to see so much scientific and commercial effort going into treating TIID pharmacologically when you believe the solution is trivial. But you could also consider all of these developments as evidence that the prescription of "just eat healthy" isn't broadly useful.
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1. meiraleal ◴[17 Oct 24 22:25 UTC] No.41874422[source]▶
> But you could also consider all of these developments as evidence that the prescription of "just eat healthy" isn't broadly useful.

As programmers, we usually prefer to remove code to fix a bug than adding patches on top of buggy code. Let's not pretend that the same logic does not apply here.

That's clearly double unhealthy behavior and will bring unintended consequences. Which might be better than the current predicament but still let's not pretend this is not a "monkeypatch".