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Cure for T1 diabetes??

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I suppose all new ideas and research is exciting, but its unlikely to cure us tomorrow............

the old antibody problem is a tricky one to prevent.........
 
.......hype and complete tosh I reckon
 
I think it's good that they are looking into all sorts of things, and research like this is certainly more valuable that the 'investigating why people who take too much insulin have hypos' type of research! 🙂 You never know when there might be a breakthrough. I always think it's worth bearing in mind that just over a hundred years ago virtually nothing could be cured and what we now know as medicine didn't really exist. We sometimes get a bit spoilt by the fact that so many things were just waiting to be discovered, and were, but now we're dealing with much more complex and harder to pin down things.
 
Given that 66% of the Joslin Medallists continue to make some insulin it must mean that they have also the capacity to make new beta cells (there would have been many generations of beta cells over 50 years) . There's a big jump between knowing this and being able to stimulate their production and prevent their subsequent destruction.
 
Northerner said:
I think it's good that they are looking into all sorts of things, and research like this is certainly more valuable that the 'investigating why people who take too much insulin have hypos' type of research! 🙂 You never know when there might be a breakthrough. I always think it's worth bearing in mind that just over a hundred years ago virtually nothing could be cured and what we now know as medicine didn't really exist. We sometimes get a bit spoilt by the fact that so many things were just waiting to be discovered, and were, but now we're dealing with much more complex and harder to pin down things.
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....I agree.....but we also put a man on the moon a long time ago!
 
The cynical side of me says hog wash all hype etc...

As I've seen a lot of this is the 'cure' for diabetes many times now, it's been just around the corner since I was diagnosed in '89 and when my husband was diagnosed in '79 one heck of a long corner...

But there again, it's another area to research possibilities or at least create more understanding what lays behind our condition might even lead to something else cracking the elusive cure!

Me I shall sit, read with some interest with the knowledge that if they find the 'cure' tomorrow I shalln't be the first in the cue wanting it I've come too accustomed to living my life with stabbing, delivering and managing my diabetes the thought of not having to do what I do kinda scares me...
 
I guess they expect to have it ready in 10 years? (they have been saying that since I was diagnosed 🙂 )
 
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