Possible Cures For Type I Diabetes Video

Science is moving fast to find a cure for Type I diabetes. Learn about current procedures to cure diabetes in this free video from a nutritionist specializing in diabetic diets.

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Heidi Kaufman is a nutritionist that focuses on disorder prevention through diet. She gives lectures and teaches class at the local hospital about how to live with diabetes.

Ok. Right now, the primary research is focused on trying to cure type one diabetes. Type one diabetes probably has the most dramatic effect on the person who has diabetes. Because, they have to take insulin all the time. Because, it's so hard to regulate the blood sugars when one has type one diabetes. And, so the principle focus is on that. And, what they're looking at right now is the transplantation of pancreatic cells from one individual to another or cloning those cells so that they can produce an operating pancreas that actually produces insulin again. Now, we've had research done on transplanting a full pancreas from one individual to another and there are problems with that. Particularly, with the rejection of the pancreas. And, the anti-rejection medication is often steroids and steroids causes the

Possible Cures for Type I Diabetes Video

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