[Cw67NTN8F]

>>but I have a feeling that somewhere there is a scientist whose professional ethics are a little less robust.

Butchers seem to have made peace with a few things. The same with their clients, lamb eaters. Let's be honest, at some point we cut corners; diabetes is the new epidemic. Most people, at least in the developed world, can stuff their faces with cheap (and poorer you are, more empty) calories.

[lawlessone]

I don't think these are the same kinds of diabetes.

With the kind you get from over indulgence your pancreas is still functional, you just have insulin resistance.

I believe this is to help the other kind of diabetes where you produce no insulin.

[wombatpm]

This would be a cure for TYPE I diabetes, not TYPE II. The difference? TYPE I aka juvenile diabetes is an autoimmune disease where the islet cells of the pancreas are targeted and you no longer produce insulin. TYPE II is where the cells in you body become insulin insensitive. TYPE II can be reversed with diet and exercise in its early stages.

Why are they both called diabetes? The consequences are the same, high blood sugar levels causing damage to eyes, kidneys, and peripheral blood flow in limbs. This can cause blindness, kidney failure, and limb amputation and eventually death.

[arkades]

Type II diabetes also proceeds over time to a loss of insulin production, but as a consequence of the illness rather than as its core trait.