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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: 0s | source
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TexanFeller ◴[18 Oct 24 00:21 UTC] No.41875181[source]▶
I’m unsurprised that a large component of the treatment is effectively just “lose weight”. For many years I’ve heard accounts of significant weight loss reversing type 2 diabetes.
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1. rootusrootus ◴[18 Oct 24 01:37 UTC] No.41875609[source]▶
Anecdotally, I've observed with my own body that there is a very direct correlation between weight and all of the health metrics. And it does not take as much weight change as you might think in order to see the metrics move.

Another thing is consumption. All of my metrics start moving immediately in the positive direction when I'm on a calorie restricted diet, even before I start seeing results on the scale.

I could be unique but I doubt it.

The problem, of course, is that just like CICO, observing the relationship between weight and health is educational but useless as a strategy. If it were that easy there would be no overweight people in the world.