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by astura 2767 days ago
Bariatric surgery has been shown to reverse diabetes.

http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/34/Supplement_2/S36...

>It has been over 10 years since the resolution of type 2 diabetes was observed as an additional outcome of surgical treatment of morbid obesity. Moreover, it has been shown unequivocally that diabetes-related morbidity and mortality have declined significantly postoperatively, and this improvement in diabetes control is long lasting.

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This falls under "figuring out how to regenerate beta cells."