People of South Asian ethnicity may be able to achieve type 2 diabetes remissions by following a structured weight management program, according to a new study which saw one third of participants lose more than 10% of their body weight.
As prominent as Type 2 (Insulin Resistant Diabetes) can be, its always been “cured” with a healthy diet and exercise. Type 1 (Insulin Dependent Diabetes) is another ball game altogether due to the autoimmune components. Being similarly named yet soo different leads to a lot of misunderstandings with Diabetes. There’s even kind of a Type 3 (Gestational Diabetes) where a woman is pregnant and becomes diabetic. This rarely leads to a permanent diagnosis after giving birth but does happen. Even more confusing, I knew a triathlete who was Type 2 yet it would be hard for him to do much better from a diet and exercise standpoint. Maybe a low calorie diet would have helped as he had massive feast while training.
It’s definitely not helpful that all of these conditions are lumped together. Hopefully research into CRISPR based treatments will actually bear fruit. That approach seems like it could have a lot of potential curing stuff that can only be maintained right now.
As prominent as Type 2 (Insulin Resistant Diabetes) can be, its always been “cured” with a healthy diet and exercise. Type 1 (Insulin Dependent Diabetes) is another ball game altogether due to the autoimmune components. Being similarly named yet soo different leads to a lot of misunderstandings with Diabetes. There’s even kind of a Type 3 (Gestational Diabetes) where a woman is pregnant and becomes diabetic. This rarely leads to a permanent diagnosis after giving birth but does happen. Even more confusing, I knew a triathlete who was Type 2 yet it would be hard for him to do much better from a diet and exercise standpoint. Maybe a low calorie diet would have helped as he had massive feast while training.
It’s definitely not helpful that all of these conditions are lumped together. Hopefully research into CRISPR based treatments will actually bear fruit. That approach seems like it could have a lot of potential curing stuff that can only be maintained right now.