Yes or No: cured in your lifetime?
Yes or No... do you BELIEVE there will be a cure within your lifetime?!!? I'll start.
NO
Too much money in keeping us diabetics... maintianing us....
Stuart
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Permalink Reply by acidrock23 on -
To me, it's not "depressing" to avoid a cure. The tools scientists have are centrifuges, scales, genetic sequencers, etc. My tools are a meter and a pump and a CGM. And food. If a B-52 would help me fight diabetes too, I don't have one. I focus on the tools at hand, throw some money at "organizations" to make myself feel good and work to beat diabetes one test at a time. I don't think I get very depressed about diabetes.
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Permalink Reply by Khürt Williams on -
No!
I wrote this almost 2 months ago when I was in a very bad place with "D". I never posted it to my blog.
I have been meaning to write this blog post for quite some time. I've held off writing it because I didn't have my thoughts organized. At least that's what I told myself. I think I've held off writing it because it's going to sound negative and people don't want to hear it.
I've had type one diabetes about six years ago. That's about as long as my nephew's been alive and half my daughters age. Not a long time but still too long. During the time I have had diabetes I've read articles — some historical and some more recent — suggesting that a cure was in the near future. I remember reading similar articles when I was diagnosed. The near future is apparently further than six years.
I am sure that there are people alive today who have heard something similar their entire life. For some people the near future has been 20 years, for others 40 years. So near future is starting to look like maybe something beyond a 100 years.
Any day now, "We'll have a cure". Shut up! I'm tired of hearing it.
I'm not one of those who believe the big pharma companies and doctors are involved in some conspiracy to suppress research toward a cure because it would affect their business. I don't think that if we raised more money to fund research — why do Americans believe that throwing more money at a problem produces solutions? — we'd have a cure *sooner*.
No. I think we don't have a cure today because the problem is difficult. The disease is complicated. I wish someone with influence would just come out and say the truth (my truth?); the truth is we have a long way to go before there is a cure. This endless cycle of "hope mongering" is exhausting.
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Permalink Reply by Jen on
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My daughter is three. Even if it takes thirty years, that would only makebher 33. So YES in her lifetime.
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Permalink Reply by Stoyan on -
I think that's a good way to look at things. Though hopefully we won't have to wait 30 years. But there are many young people today living with diabetes, and if e push for one and get a cure within the next decade or two, plenty will still be at a fairly young age and able to enjoy the benefits of a cure-like lifestyle.
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Permalink Reply by pancreaswanted on -
N0T 0N Y0UR LIFE.
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Permalink Reply by Stoyan on
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Some are saying it is "absolutely" coming. http://jdca2025.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/potential-cure-for-diabete...
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Permalink Reply by 2o1ckvyr2zhft on -
how many have looked at a raw vegan diet...? nothing cooked over 118*... when you heat food it changes the molecular structure of the food... (the difference between uncooked corn on the cob and high fructose corn syrup is HEAT...!
i have been on insulin for 46 years... with a RAW / Vegan diet i have reduced my insulin from 70 units per day to less then 30 units in 2 weeks... the glycemic index of vegies and fruit is really low when it is raw...
check out this link:rawforthirty.com
this is working for me.. i believe i can heal... all of the type 2 diabetics on this are cured... 2 of the type 1 diabetics no longer need insulin injections...
diabetes is your choice..! i choose not to be diabetic any more.. it's RAW /VEGAN for me...
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Permalink Reply by Tikicristi on -
I think it's great that a raw diet worked for you but I disagree completely that diabetes is a choice. I did not choose to get this disease at age 21 in college. Perhaps some type 2's can reverse it but I do not believe type 1s can reverse it completely with diet alone - yes, we can reduce the amount of insulin we take but I think the idea of using diet and no insulin is risky long-term and a raw diet is very hard to maintain longterm and for most people, not very appealing. Again, great that you can do it but I just don't think it's fair to say this disease is a choice, who would chose this?
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