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

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286 points amichail | 1 comments | 17 Oct 24 20:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.426s | 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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crossroadsguy ◴[18 Oct 24 01:54 UTC] No.41875692[source]▶

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Even my allergies are tamed when I am at the right weight and physically very and consistently active. (It might just be coincidence though). Cutting off refined/white sugar almost completely has helped a lot I guess (I do have a sweets cheat day every 3-5 months. It’s not planned but somehow this is how it has worked with visits to friends and relatives).

Is type 2 a permanent disease? Or is like when you lifestyle is bad and your sugar remains high/etc you are suffering from type 2 diabetes, but when your lifestyle and weight and great and sugar is well under control you don’t have type 2 diabetes, but if that changes you can get it again? Or it’s like - once “marked with type 2” no matter the sugar marker results you are a type 2 patient forever?

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1. malfist ◴[18 Oct 24 04:50 UTC] No.41876440[source]▶

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It's probably not a coincidence your allergies are better when you're active. You're body wants to spend a certain amount of calories each day regardless of what you do, and if you are not active or happily pumps excess calories into your immune system.

Some autoimmune disease are significantly improved with regular exercise

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