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by caseyy 606 days ago
I will hopefully reduce your pessimism on one account: just because drugs are not available generally doesn’t mean they aren’t available off-label. Sometimes you need to get a few prescriptions going abroad before you can convince your doctors to keep prescribing them. That is possible now, I am a t1d on a GLP-1 antagonist now.

Cell transplant once every 5 years can be done globally, right? We can do it in China if the laws are better there.

With the trials, I’m also not so pessimistic. This is much larger scale and its stage 3 — not one offs in a lab.

Open your mind to the possibility that maybe things are a bit more optimistic than you believe. I remember when closed loop pumps were about 5 years away for decades ;)