Type 2 diabetes can be reversed with a low-calorie diet

Re:Type 2 diabetes can be reversed with a low-calorie diet by dnautics on Friday February 16, 2018 @06:55PM (#16397771)

We don't have solid evidence that amylin is killing islet cells, just circumstantial and in vivo work.

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Re:Type 2 diabetes can be reversed with a low-calorie diet by arkades on Friday February 16, 2018 @07:04PM (#16397826)

http://m.jbc.org/content/271/4/1988.short

It’s not like we can do much more than show “if I introduce this amyloid, beta cells die” in the lab. No one is going to experimentally administer the amyloid to real life patients to see if it kills their pancreas.

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Re:Type 2 diabetes can be reversed with a low-calorie diet by dnautics on Monday February 19, 2018 @08:06PM (#16417089)

You could do it in mice. I mean, you can't but that's because mice have funny amylin, but people haven't really put in the work to suss that out.

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