Communist China Just Cured Diabetes and America's Insulin Industry is Not Happy About it

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Communist China Just Cured Diabetes and America's Insulin Industry is Not Happy About it - Lemmy.World

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That’s pretty incredible. I wonder if the patients will have to get more insulin-producing cells transplanted every few years, or if this is a “one and done” type of deal?

In any case, an autologous cell transplant every ≥3 years or so is a vast improvement over the current situation for type 2 diabetes

IIRC the biologist that runs the YT channel Though Emporium did this some years ago regarding his lactose intolerance and he had to get more after some years because his body didn’t naturally produce them

But I hope this is different

lactose intolerance is a very very different thing from diabetes.
Insulin is a fundamental part of keeping you alive, and if you fuck up the balance you can die which is why diabetes is such a big deal.

Lactose intolerance is just the inability to digest a specific kind of sugar, which means bacteria in your digestive system can gorge themselves and give you an absurd amount of gas and other very unpleasant but ultimately not particularly dangerous consequences.